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Speaker 1: I'm a homegrown that knows a little bit about everything

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Speaker 1: Lauren can't even Hey, y'all was up at Lauren Rosa

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

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Speaker 1: your Deliziva all things pop culture and a Sammon News

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

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Speaker 1: I've been all day long just watching this jay Z

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Speaker 1: interview that drops with GQ. So jay Z did a

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Speaker 1: sit down exclusive interview with GQ. The written article drops

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Speaker 1: and then a thirty five minute long video interview dropped

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Speaker 1: with GQ. Now y'all know, first of all, Jaz is

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Speaker 1: not one to just like sit down and do any

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Speaker 1: This interview was actually filmed in January. He sat down

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Speaker 1: with a Fraser Fraser start in la for two candid

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Speaker 1: conversations and these are like some of the first in

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Speaker 1: depth interviews he's done in years. And then the written

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Speaker 1: part of the interview is said that the two conversations

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Speaker 1: he had were two hours long. So these were very

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Speaker 1: long interviews, and they combined them and bust it down

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Speaker 1: to a little bit over thirty five minutes now, I

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Speaker 1: was watching this interview. I watched it twice so far,

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Speaker 1: and I do plan on watching it again because I

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Speaker 1: just feel like there's so much that you can take

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Speaker 1: analyze the conversation. I feel like the way that they're

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Speaker 1: as they're having a conversation. I want to my last time,

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Speaker 1: not my last time. But then I told myself the

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Speaker 1: next time I go back in and listen to this,

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Speaker 1: I want to go back in and actually like listen

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Speaker 1: to it, play the song, go back, listen to it again,

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Speaker 1: like really like it's almost like listening to a new

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Speaker 1: album watching this interview, right, But okay, so let's the

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Speaker 1: first us checking behind the scenes that want to grow

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Speaker 1: y'all can't tell I am really excited, Like I am

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Speaker 1: super excited. And I think it's because in the last

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Speaker 1: back and listen. You guys will hear me, you know,

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Speaker 1: as I check in behind the scenes of the grind

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Speaker 1: having a conversation with myself, a very honest one just

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Speaker 1: about you know, legacy and longevity and staying power and

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Speaker 1: more than just like you know, career and achieving and

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Speaker 1: all of that, like morning, just like all of that

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Speaker 1: realize like impact. And I think my biggest thing is,

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Speaker 1: in the podcast base and we're building the latest Luana

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Speaker 1: Roads Up podcast community and the Lowriders, one of the

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Speaker 1: things that I'm always trying to figure out is why,

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Speaker 1: I talk about purpose and understanding my purpose and really

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Speaker 1: getting closer to God all these last like two years

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Speaker 1: and that becoming so clear to me, purpose becoming clear

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Speaker 1: to me. Alignment and alignment changes for me, you know,

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Speaker 1: alignment changes depending on you know. I feel like there's

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Speaker 1: think that there are different things that in different variables

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Speaker 1: into the latest jav fed down with GQ thirty five

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Speaker 1: So in the opening of it, right out of the gate,

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Speaker 1: jay Z gets into what his twenty twenty five was like,

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Speaker 1: and if you're not familiar, twenty twenty five was like

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Speaker 1: the attack on the Black Billion there, okay, jay Z

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Speaker 1: jay Z was fighting back and denied all of this right,

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Speaker 2: Like if you don't put that on someone like that's

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Speaker 1: And from this I learned that number one, the human

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Speaker 2: But at that moment, at that moment, I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And like how do you figure that out? Because jay

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Speaker 4: But the personal thing that you chose Kendrick for the

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Speaker 2: Like I don't know what I have to do with that.

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Speaker 2: I chose the guy that was having a monster year.

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Speaker 2: I think it was right choice or it wasn't. In

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Speaker 2: some sort of alliance to a battle, I don't, Yeah

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Speaker 2: what I care about them too? Guys battling like looks

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Speaker 2: like how to do with me?

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Speaker 1: Or have at it? Have fun.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like not on just me, by the way

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Speaker 2: they drag everybody in it, like everyone's part of this

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Speaker 1: Like what the fuck?

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Speaker 2: Like what I fucking jay Z? Or due respect him

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Speaker 2: fucking home dude respectfully or like for what to what end? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it couldn't be like these guys just don't like each other. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I think they haven't liked each other for a

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Speaker 1: Before you young gonna hear him do the Drake Box

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Speaker 1: is already out there doing exactly what I just told

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Speaker 1: what I mean? I mean, business is business is strictly financial,

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Speaker 1: don't know, like did this one grab me? So? This

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Speaker 1: has been another episode of the latest of Laurna Rosa.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Lauren Rosa. I tell you guys,

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Speaker 1: every episode, y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about

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Speaker 1: all of these things which taught you to be right

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Speaker 1: here with me, my lowriders. I appreciate y'all