1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: and everybody. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right, tell 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 2: y'all what's up. 5 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 3: It's Laura Rosa and this is the latest with Laura l. Rosa. 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: This is your deadly dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: now today checking in behind the scenes of the grind. 9 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: It's a pretty hectic, you know, ending of the week. 10 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: I've been talking to you guys and give you updates 11 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: all week long on uh, you know, just this caretaker 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: side of life. You guys will probably hear in my 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: surroundings the city of New York because I'm currently sitting 14 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: in the car. We are doing my mom's three months 15 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: three month checking scan. So my mom is a stage 16 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: four lung and brain cancer survivor, so every three months 17 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: she has to check in on herself, so she checks 18 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: in with her doctors here in New York. They scan 19 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: her full body just to make sure that nothing is 20 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: growing since the last time they've seen her, and that 21 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: nothing new, no new masses of potential cancer pop up 22 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: anywhere in her body. And we've been doing that successfully 23 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: for over a year now and things have been good, 24 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: but coming here today was a bit drastic because you guys, 25 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: remember I had this planned. Whenever she does her scans, 26 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: whether it's a family member that brings her up, you know, 27 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: like my brother or my cousins, any of my cousins 28 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: or whoever I can get to help me, I always 29 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: try and plan for it to be on a day where, like, 30 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: you know, work is not as like, work is not 31 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: as heavy. So we did that last time. I planned 32 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 1: the skins on a day where I actually didn't have 33 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: to work at all. And then we found out that 34 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: some of her insurances, like certain things with her insurances, 35 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: had been canceled, and that's been a whole thing. But 36 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: and you guys know about this because we've talked about it. 37 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: We had Mimi Brown from the Black and Information Network, 38 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: who handles you know, world news, politics, community things, talk 39 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: to us about what the Trump administration is doing when 40 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: it comes to medicaid, Medicare and lack thereof and how 41 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: people are affected. And you know, the news got real 42 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 1: for me because I was a person that was on 43 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 1: the other end of it having to deal with that. 44 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: Fast forward, we are here, she's able to get her skins. 45 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: Everything is looking good so far, but they forgot to 46 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: do a brain scan and I wouldn't let her leave 47 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: without them doing it, So we are waiting for that now. 48 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: But I wanted to make sure we got this additional 49 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: pieces of the podcast and for today. 50 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 3: So here we go. So that's you know, my checking 51 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 3: behind the scenes of the grind. 52 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: And I'm a little frantic today just because I've been 53 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: doing so much before pressing record. But y'all know we're 54 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: gonna bring y'all the latest either way. Now getting on 55 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: into the latest new music. So we got new music 56 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: from acet Rocky. He finally dropped his long awaited project, 57 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: Don't be dumb. This project has had several released time 58 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: periods and dates which did not happen. So you know, 59 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: fans is fans are going off about it. They're excited 60 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: to finally get it. He is, he's had so much 61 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,959 Speaker 1: to talk about, you know, the last time we got 62 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: an album from acet Rocky. 63 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: Within that amount of time, he's had kids. 64 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: He is now a devoted I would say husband, even 65 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: if they're not married, because him and Rihanna at this 66 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 1: point they married. 67 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 3: But that is not me confirming anything. 68 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: Guys, I'm jokingly saying that this being is so devoted 69 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: to Rihanna that they might as well be married. 70 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 3: I gotta clarify that now at this this eraror in 71 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 3: my life. But yeah, so he's you know, him and 72 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 3: Rihanna are very much in love. They have their three babies. 73 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: He is, you know, such a devoted father and we 74 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: see it so much. He's also graced so many different 75 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: magazine covers. He's become the face of brands. You know, 76 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: his career, everything is just grown. We just saw him 77 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: and Highest to Lowest the Spike Lee movie with Denzel 78 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: Washington and you know, being a lead man, and that 79 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: he's had a lot going on. The gun case which 80 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: he was able to walk away from, which we saw 81 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: him hop over that bitch when they read that not 82 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: guilty verdict into Rihanna's arms. There's a lot to talk 83 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: about here. So the album is out now. He sat 84 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 1: down with podcast, which is a podcast it's like a 85 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 1: cultural podcast that the New York Times does, and he 86 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: was talking to the guys over there about the project 87 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: and he confirmed that like eighty five percent of this 88 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: project is new music. Because there were like little leaks 89 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 1: and fake leaks so people were leaking like real things 90 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: from the project. But then there were like there was 91 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: like music created that wasn't even really the music from 92 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: the project that people would leak and say that it 93 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: was music from the project. 94 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 3: According to a set Rocky, so this is all new music. 95 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 3: And they asked him about some shots that he took 96 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 3: at Drake. 97 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 4: Let's say a listen, see the Internet's gonna decide who 98 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 4: you're talking about on that. 99 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 2: I think we all know you're going to say it's Drake. 100 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 4: I mean, that's a man who was with you in 101 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 4: those early days too, brought you on tour. Where do 102 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 4: things go wrong in that relationship? 103 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, I don't know. 104 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 5: I just I just started just seeing people who just 105 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 5: started out as friends and just became foes. Seemed like 106 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 5: they was unhappy for you, and you know, just started 107 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 5: sending shots. And I think that's what led to any 108 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 5: of our misunderstandings or whatever the case is. 109 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 2: It's really ain't smoke. 110 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 6: Does it feel resolvable to you or you think it's. 111 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 2: No, they don't even need to be like for what 112 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 2: but you're. 113 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 4: Like no secret like that songs that songs for him? 114 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 2: Now, I don't really or it's for anyone. 115 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: It's you feel like it's about them, say like or 116 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: let me just say that. Drake said Rocky have been 117 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: beefing for some time now, and it's like they throw 118 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: all these shots at each other. Now. A said Rocky 119 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: didn't have an album out, but he had been featured 120 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: on you know, a few different projects or songs throughout 121 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: the year where he did take some shots back at Drake. 122 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: Drake has been throwing shots his ways as well too. 123 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a beef that will 124 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: ever actually, like like we can reconcile at this point 125 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: because you know, aseb Rocky and a lot of people 126 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: have the conversation about Drake and drake'sim and the swag, 127 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: and you know, I know him and Travis Scott were 128 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: also into it at one point because the style comparisons 129 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: or whatever. But I think deeper than rap, Rihanna is 130 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: at the core of this. We just heard aset Rocky 131 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: say it in the song. Rihanna is at the core 132 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: of this. Not that she's like pulling the puppet strings, 133 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: but obviously there's an issue about the fact that Drake 134 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: was interested in Rihanna dating or whatever they were doing 135 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: at one point, and that acet Rocky is the one 136 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: who ended up with her now as a Rocky. On 137 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: the podcast with The New York Times, he also talked 138 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: a lot of about, you know, just taking accountability in 139 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,679 Speaker 1: this new era of his life. With that gun trial 140 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: he went through taught him He's in a whole different 141 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: space and I'm so happy to see it. 142 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 3: Let's take listen. 143 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 4: Were you thinking, like how did I get myself back 144 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 4: in another of these situations? 145 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 5: Absolutely, because every time you're in a situation like that, 146 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 5: never never again, And when it happens again, you're like. 147 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 6: What the fuck is this? 148 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 5: Oh God, man, Like here we all yet again. You know, 149 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 5: I know you're gonna get me out of it somehow. 150 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 5: But there's a lesson to be learned in this, and 151 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 5: sometimes some lessons are hard lessons, even if you're not 152 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 5: in the wrong necessarily. Guy, is a funny way, in 153 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 5: my opinion, of like just you know, humbling you or 154 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 5: just showing you. 155 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, Okay, this is this is 156 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:52,119 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. 157 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 3: Okay. 158 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: I love to see the evolution of us, whether it's men, women. 159 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 3: Love to see the evolution. 160 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: But I really do like to see the evil of rappers, 161 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: especially the male rappers, because a lot of times, especially 162 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: if you come from it and mind you aset Rocky 163 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: is not you not like a gangster rapper, but like 164 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: you know, you're not gonna play with them. But a 165 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: lot of what Aset Rocky stands on the stands for 166 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: it's about you know, loyalty, morals, integrity. But it's the 167 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: it's the get fly of it all, it's the talk 168 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: slick of it all. It's the I'm going to exposure 169 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: to a life that you ain't never seen before because 170 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: you down with the aset mob of it all. And 171 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: that's what Aset rocket The aset Mob used to embody 172 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: across Tumblr and then you know, across other social media 173 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: sites and of course in their music. But a lot 174 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: of times I feel like with our rap artists, and honestly, 175 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: I'm not even just gonna say the male rap artists, 176 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: but I feel like with our black talent, I don't know, 177 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,079 Speaker 1: I feel like we don't get the chance to and 178 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 1: not a lot of that has changed in my opinion 179 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: more recently, because you see, like I was gonna say, 180 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 1: the female rap artists don't get the chance to evolve 181 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: and be mothers and lean into career. They stay in 182 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: one box with that has completely changed Beyonce, Cardi b Sierra. 183 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 3: On the music side, like the girls are doing it all. 184 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: And on the rap side, you know, unfortunately, we see 185 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: a lot of our male rap artists lose their lives 186 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: or you know, drugs are in question and that happens 187 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: with the male and female rappers as well, or we 188 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: just don't support them and seeing them the way that 189 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: we should, so their careers die out, money drives up. 190 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: You know, we're just not seeing them the longevity of 191 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: their lives, their careers and their legacies are not what 192 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: they should be in my opinion, and that's why I 193 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: love to hear and see artists in the space that 194 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: Asap Rocky is in diversifying the hell out of his portfolio. 195 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: But he started that way and it's just getting even better. 196 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: And I love to hear that he knows that having 197 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: a good woman by his side only makes that better. 198 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: The music is back now him being a father and 199 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: showing the world that is such a thing as well. 200 00:09:58,679 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 3: Like I just love to see it. 201 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: Let's cause it's inn asad Rocket just talking about you 202 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: know what Rihanna has been in his life and just 203 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: how all of that like, I feel like that like 204 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: just glows you up in a way that you just 205 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:11,599 Speaker 1: don't understand until you do it. 206 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 5: Let's takeul before I had my children, it was like 207 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 5: being with my girl took a blind fold off and 208 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 5: things that she couldn't make me, you know, visibly see. 209 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 6: Or optical too. 210 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 5: God, like I said, had a funny way of showing me. 211 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 5: It's like, how the hell did I end up in 212 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 5: this situation? This is ironic, this is something And that's 213 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 5: why my temperament about it was always so like relaxed, 214 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 5: because I knew, you know what I'm saying. It's just like, 215 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 5: all right, this the circus, y'all gonna let this play out, 216 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,839 Speaker 5: all right, I'll sit back done yet, you know what 217 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 5: I mean. 218 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 2: Like, it's just that's what it was for me. 219 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 5: I looked at it like as soon as you get 220 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 5: with a girl, she'll tell you like, that's not your friend, 221 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 5: that's that's your friend. 222 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 4: But that one they can see it more clearly from 223 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 4: a different name. And to be clear, you didn't just 224 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 4: get with any girl. 225 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I got with a very special woman. 226 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 5: You know what I mean, and I'm thankful that, you know, 227 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 5: she was putting my life at that time, because I 228 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 5: think anytime prior to that, you know, I don't think 229 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 5: I was. 230 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 6: Ready for something like that. 231 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 2: You know, I don't think she. 232 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: Was either more s now other new music I know, 233 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: NBA Young Boy also dropped new music as well, Slime Crowded. 234 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: Y'all know, baby, the kids don't play about NBA Young Boy. 235 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: But I also saw a few days ago that NBA 236 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: Young Boy has a new production deal with a production 237 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 1: company that he started, which will be showcasing like a 238 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: docuseriies of his full tour, which I love to see 239 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: artists do as well too, because again, that's diversifying that portfolio, 240 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: that is, you know, making other streams of income off 241 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: of one set talent. But I also just love storytelling, Like, 242 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 1: if I'm being honest, I just love storytelling and I 243 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: love to watch people's journeys. But it's also going to 244 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: talk a lot about his influence on youth culture, culture 245 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: and music in general. And I think a lot of 246 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: people because NBA Young Boy has had some like you know, 247 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,559 Speaker 1: issues with the law, and you know, I feel like 248 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: the conversation around him is always about the beefs he's 249 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: in and the court cases and the charge and the 250 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: things that he's going through. 251 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 3: But this year or. 252 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: Last year, actually in twenty twenty five, because he was 253 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, because he was on this tour 254 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: which sold out crazy, like sold out insane, I think 255 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: a lot of people really got to experience the NBA 256 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: Young Boy effect. Now it's a lot of them shines 257 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: things and you know, all the things, but at the 258 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: core essence of it, it's influence. It's being able to 259 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: get people up out of their homes and into seats 260 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: and fully dedicated to your music, singing word for word, 261 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,439 Speaker 1: having energy, making me arena feel like it's shaken because 262 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: of the energy in the room, a lot of artists 263 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: aren't doing. 264 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 3: At whatsoever at all. 265 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: NBA Young Boy has such a hand on a youth culture, 266 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: and a lot of people talk about the fact that he's, 267 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 1: you know, numbers wise, he's always been streaming crazy, like 268 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: his numbers go crazy. And a lot of it happens 269 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,439 Speaker 1: without radio play because a lot of his songs are 270 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: just not the songs that you're going to hear replayed 271 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: all the time on the radio. 272 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to that as well too. 273 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: But I know, speaking of artists dropping new music, Chris 274 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 1: Brown just hopped on Gunner's w WGFT as well. So 275 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: there's a lot of new things lately to listen to. 276 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: So let's get the latest on this word. There's a 277 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,559 Speaker 1: word in colectic. Okay, that is not really a word, y'all, 278 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,719 Speaker 1: but Kim Newton on the Funky Friday podcast told us 279 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 1: that it was so. Kim Newton was seated with Lady London, 280 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: fire lyricists female rapper Lady London. 281 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 3: She is not the one to play word. 282 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: Games with at all, okay, because Lady London's specialty is wordplay. 283 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 1: She started, you know, early on after graduating from Howard 284 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: University writing poetry was turned into music. 285 00:13:57,960 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 3: And they were sitting. 286 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: Down in conversation, and his conversations are always very wide arranging, 287 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: and they get to the when we're we're talking about 288 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: his personal style, and she asked him to describe his 289 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: personal style. 290 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 3: And here's what he had to say. 291 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: But how would you describe your style in one word 292 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: that's an adjective? 293 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 6: Can I use the word that I've already used, inclectic? 294 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 2: Say it again? 295 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 6: In colectic? 296 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 3: It's eclectic? 297 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 6: Well, the heavy on the end because there's no internet. No, no, no, no, 298 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 6: it's my word. 299 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 3: Oh, let's unpack this. Okay, got it? Sure, word and 300 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 3: spell it for me. 301 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 6: N C L E C t A okay, in colectic, 302 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 6: in collectic? Do you want to know what the end 303 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 6: stand for? 304 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 3: Niggatree am I right? 305 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 2: Okay, that's excellent. 306 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 6: You see where I was going? 307 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Now this made me start thinking because everywhere 308 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: I was looking, people were joking using the word inclectic, 309 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: because this is another moment where you know, Cam Newton, 310 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: just for a moment, doesn't look fully in control of 311 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: his conversation. And you know, the gist of a lot 312 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: of Cam Newton's conversations is that he is fully in control. 313 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: Whenever it is your interview, you are supposed to be 314 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: fully in control. So I think, you know, people, people 315 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: are so crazy. People enjoy seeing the tables flipped where 316 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: a person doesn't appear as smart as they think they are, 317 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: or doesn't appear as in control as they think they are, 318 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, people want to lean into. But 319 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: this was a very funny moment. 320 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 3: I saw the word. 321 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: Being used everywhere jokingly, and I'm like, I wonder what 322 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: this moment and what those numbers are doing on Google 323 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: because it's been used so much. 324 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 3: So according to So, I looked it up. 325 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: So Google has a Google trend like area where you 326 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: can look up trending everything, topics, words, phrases, searches, all 327 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: of the above. Now I normally use this when I'm 328 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: looking up stories to see what the world is talking about, 329 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: how much you're talking about it, to be able to 330 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: prioritize stories for Breakfast Club and for the podcast here 331 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: the Latest with Waur on the Rosa. But I do 332 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: know that you can use it for words as well. 333 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: But I just didn't know how to read the data 334 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: because the grass are not like laid out in like 335 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: a way where you can just like quote a percentage 336 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: of increase or anything like that easily unless you know 337 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: what you're looking at. So I reached out to the 338 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: Google Trends team after looking at the public trends site 339 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: because I saw a spike not only in the words, 340 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: I saw a spike in the word eclectic, which is 341 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: the real word that cam Newton meant. And let's look 342 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: up eclectic's definition. Now I'm add into the Google searches, 343 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: so eclectic the real definition of the real word eclectic 344 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: is deriving idea style, or taste from a broad and 345 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: diverse range of sources. So I'm looking at these charts, 346 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: I'm looking at these grass and I'm like, I'm seeing 347 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: a spike, but I don't understand, like numerically, like I 348 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: don't I'm if I'm going to quantify this. 349 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm looking at. 350 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: So I talked to the team over at Google Trends 351 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: and they tell me so search interest in the word 352 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: eclectic over the past week for Kim New in eclectic 353 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: and enclectic or breakout searches. So breakout searches across Google 354 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: Trends are basically searches that like, aren't commonly searched, that 355 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: just break out and stand out and search trends because 356 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: of something that happened. So the interview happened. Now people 357 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: are searching Kim New in eclectic and enclectic. I'm told 358 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: by the Google Public Trends site and confirmed by their 359 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: team with whom I spoke with, that there was over 360 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: a five hundred thousand percent increase in searches for cam 361 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: New in eclectic and enclectic. Insane, I'll y'all out out here, 362 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 1: trying to use this word. It is not a word, y'all. 363 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: Like one thing we're gonna do is kacko kikey, and 364 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:54,719 Speaker 1: we gonna let something go, but it is not a 365 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 1: real word. Leave it alone, and please don't play with 366 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: Lady London in her words. Now in wrapping up, I 367 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: don't know how many of our low riders have Verizon Wireless, 368 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: but boy, were y'all going through it this week. So 369 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 1: Verizon Wireless, the phone carrier, had a blackout of service 370 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: across like the United States. 371 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 3: Like it was insane. 372 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: You could not if you were trying to call someone 373 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: with Verizon, you literally could not call through to their phone. 374 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: They couldn't call out to you. It was, and it 375 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: was for some time. It was probably for about a 376 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: good like almost up to an hour. I would say, 377 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: I know my brother has Verizon and I was trying 378 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: to get in contact with him about you know, my 379 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: grandmother and. 380 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 3: Just couldn't, like literally, you just they just couldn't call out. 381 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 1: And so Verizon's you know, they apologize. They were keeping 382 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: us updated via Twitter, telling us that they were going 383 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: to be fixing the issues and that there will be 384 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: a credit to affected customers. To you know to apply 385 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 1: to their accounts. So people have an issue now because 386 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 1: Verizon is only twenty dollars. Cell phone bills are about 387 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: a good one fift seventy five a month. Okay, twenty dollars. 388 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: Look in this economy, I'll take it. But still it's 389 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: almost it's a joke. So Verizon posted late last night 390 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 1: to their Verizon News account yesterday we did not meet 391 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: the standard of excellence you expect and that we expect 392 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: of ourselves. To help provide some relief to those effected, 393 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: we will give you a twenty dollars account credit that 394 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 1: you can easily redeem by logging into my Verizon app. 395 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: You will receive a text message when the credit is 396 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: available on averages covers multiple days of service. Business customers 397 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: will be contacted directly about their credits. This credit isn't 398 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 1: meant to make up for what happened. No credit really can, 399 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 1: but it's a way of acknowledging your time and showing 400 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 1: you that this matters to us. Now, I appreciate a 401 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 1: company acknowledging your time, acknowledging the time they took from you, 402 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: the time they wasted your money, all of that, But 403 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 1: I do think that they could do a little bit more. 404 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 1: I also think that it's kind of unfair that you 405 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: have to log into the app apply it. I think 406 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: on average, like you know, people are busy, so taking 407 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 1: the time to do that, I think a lot of 408 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: people are going to miss out on the credit. 409 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 3: Also, I'm thinking about. 410 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: Like older people who have Verizon who are not going 411 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: to know how to do all of that. Also, I 412 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: just think that there's going to be a fall off in, 413 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 1: you know, once this marketing maneuver pushes out to their audience, 414 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: the amount of people that are actually able to get 415 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,439 Speaker 1: across the finish line. I think it should have been 416 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: something that was applied instantly to the account in my opinion, 417 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: But hey, we are not Verizon over here, even though 418 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 1: it's a Verizon. I do have Horizons Wi Fi though, 419 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: but yeah, not Verison over here. So personally I have 420 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: nothing to complain about. But just looking at it from 421 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: of yours perspective, I think they should have made that 422 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: a bit easier for their customers one hundred percent because 423 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: of the inconvenience that it costs so many people. And 424 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: you don't realize how much you rely on your cell 425 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: phone with no landline until you can't rely on your 426 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,119 Speaker 1: cell phone. I was trying to get in contact with 427 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:00,400 Speaker 1: some of my aunts because my you know, some things 428 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: that were happening in emergency with my grandmother this week 429 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: during the time it was outed, and couldn't call my aunt. 430 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 3: She had to call me from her house phone. 431 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: And I'm like, it made me think, like, Wow, should 432 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: we keep housephones in the crib just for back up? 433 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 3: Something to think about here y'all. 434 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: Now, at the end of the day, you guys could 435 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,719 Speaker 1: be anywhere with anybody talking about all of the things, 436 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: all of these things my lowriders, But you guys choose 437 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: to be right here with me, and for that I 438 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. 439 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 3: I'll catch you all in the next episode.