Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody. You don't know if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: what's up. It's Laura la Rosa and this is the
Speaker 1: latest with Laura le Rosa. This is your daily dig
Speaker 1: on all things pop culture, entertainment, news and all of
Speaker 1: the conversations that shake the room. Now getting started this episode,
Speaker 1: I just want to before we hop into any you know,
Speaker 1: topics or just anything, I do want to take the
Speaker 1: time to say rest in peace to Dangelo neo soul legend.
Speaker 1: I saw some people referring to him as an R
Speaker 1: and B singer, but you know, I think I was
Speaker 1: talking to one of the breakfast club producers, Nick who
Speaker 1: you know, he plays guitar and like all these different things,
Speaker 1: and we were talking about the Soul Aquarians, which it
Speaker 1: was like a like a creative collective that D'Angelo was
Speaker 1: a part of. And I recently watched an interview with
Speaker 1: rikabay Do. She was on Please Explain, and I love
Speaker 1: Please Explain because it's a it's complex, so it's pop culture,
Speaker 1: but it's very artsy fashion conversations. And I love the
Speaker 1: host I love the way that she curates conversations with
Speaker 1: the black artists and creators that come on and and
Speaker 1: it's always like a history lesson in educational but it's
Speaker 1: very like trendy on topic stuff and you learn things,
Speaker 1: but you also like getting new news, like in the
Speaker 1: same episode, we found out that er Kabadu was going
Speaker 1: to redo the bag Lady video with tel Far, which
Speaker 1: is a black owned handbag brand. The host Aria Hughes,
Speaker 1: So I love watching her conversations, but Ericabadu was on there.
Speaker 1: I watched this last week actually, and she was talking
Speaker 1: about this aquarians, which a lot of people don't talk
Speaker 1: about then when they speak to these artists. So you
Speaker 1: had and I'm not going to name all of them
Speaker 1: because I don't know everybody off top. I know er
Speaker 1: Kabay do DiAngelo, which is how we got hair and
Speaker 1: conversation because you know this is I just want to
Speaker 1: send the recipes to d Angelo. But in talking about
Speaker 1: him and just you know, seeing so many people like
Speaker 1: recap a lot of his work, his music, his impact culturally, musically,
Speaker 1: just everything. It made me think a lot about the
Speaker 1: people that are around you as you were making different
Speaker 1: decisions to express yourself and how you express yourself and
Speaker 1: just how you touch the world and what your impact
Speaker 1: is there. And I just was thinking, I'm like, damn, Like,
Speaker 1: so she's describing these GM sessions between y'asinbe talib Qualiti
Speaker 1: common Questlove D'Angelo, Like, imagine that group of people in
Speaker 1: the studio, and I believe it was an electric lady
Speaker 1: that they were talking about that they would like shoot at,
Speaker 1: you know, or shoot at that they would you know,
Speaker 1: just just be at and run into each other to
Speaker 1: each other at all the time. But it was a
Speaker 1: collective of great minds and great thought seekerts.
Speaker 2: So the original so aquariums are Questlove, j Dilla DeAngelo
Speaker 2: and Ali Shahi Mah got it. And then came James
Speaker 2: Poyser because they're all Aquarius.
Speaker 3: Yes yes, yes, yes, and you were the Pisces and
Speaker 3: the only woman right yes yes. How did they how
Speaker 3: to being around them? How did that change your approach
Speaker 3: to the making of the music? Like did they push
Speaker 3: you in any type of way?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Before I met any of them, before I had bodyism,
Speaker 2: they were the audience that I sought out, like I
Speaker 2: just want these people to hear this, you know, because
Speaker 2: it didn't mean anything else. You know, it didn't mean
Speaker 2: much for anyone else at that time. For me to
Speaker 2: hear it, it meant a lot for them, those people
Speaker 2: to hear it because I admired them so much and
Speaker 2: continue to learn from them and grow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I don't know, just made me think
Speaker 1: of that clip, so, you know, wanted to play that
Speaker 1: clip here and sending him a rest in piece. D
Speaker 1: Angelo passed away at age fifty one of pancreatic cancer yesterday,
Speaker 1: October fourteenth, twenty twenty five, and there's just been an
Speaker 1: outpouring of love for him all over the place from
Speaker 1: all different types of artists, whether you you know they
Speaker 1: had the honor to meet him to you know, just
Speaker 1: watch his work from afar all of the things. And
Speaker 1: his career began at eighteen, he was in a group
Speaker 1: and they won an R and B composition at Showtime
Speaker 1: Showtime of the Apollo Fast Forward drops brown Sugar, which
Speaker 1: is like his debut that debuted his debut album that
Speaker 1: debut number six on the Billboard chart and went platinum
Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety six. And on that album, you Had, Lady,
Speaker 1: You had Brown Sugar, You had Cruising brown Sugar actually
Speaker 1: earned him a Grammy nomination for R and B Album
Speaker 1: of the Year. I mean that song. Even as I'm
Speaker 1: talking about that song, you just hear it. Like I
Speaker 1: think the music of a certain time really illustrates your life,
Speaker 1: no matter what your age is. Like the old heads,
Speaker 1: like the OG's always like y'all wasn't outside y'all don't
Speaker 1: even understand the feeling. But I think, you know, we
Speaker 1: might not have been around when the songs were charting,
Speaker 1: and like the artists were really you know, running around
Speaker 1: and it was new and they were breaking and they
Speaker 1: were getting the world to love it. But good music
Speaker 1: has lasted, and good art last generations the generation, and
Speaker 1: that's what that's what made me think about the story
Speaker 1: that I heard Erica, but BA do tell about working
Speaker 1: within that collective and just wanting to, you know, throw
Speaker 1: your art not even at the wall and see if
Speaker 1: it's stuck, but within a group of your peers that
Speaker 1: you respected, and all of those people have created things
Speaker 1: and brands and conversations that have impacted, touch and influenced
Speaker 1: people for generations to come. Because I gotta I get
Speaker 1: a feeling when I hear Brown Sugar, and I have
Speaker 1: been also to the Brown Sugar movie is my favorite movie.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I just you know it. It's always one
Speaker 1: of those things that you think about as a person
Speaker 1: that is creating something that you're putting into the world.
Speaker 1: Conversation is my art at this point SI music not
Speaker 1: a music artist, but I always think about how is
Speaker 1: what I'm doing impacting people? And when you see and
Speaker 1: it's sad though that you really had this conversation about
Speaker 1: a lot of people once they're not here anymore. But
Speaker 1: I won't go down that rabbit hole. I just yesterday
Speaker 1: when I was seeing a lot of the you know,
Speaker 1: outpouring of artists that we're talking about how what Dangelo
Speaker 1: did in his career just by waking up and being
Speaker 1: himself and deciding to explore instruments and show the world
Speaker 1: that and explore you know, his sex appeal, his his neo,
Speaker 1: so all the things like how it has impacted so
Speaker 1: many people. So, you know, making sure we send a
Speaker 1: rest in peace to him, some love to the family,
Speaker 1: to his family. Yeah, the only right way to start
Speaker 1: off an episode on a day like today is to
Speaker 1: do that, is to take that time. Now. In other news,
Speaker 1: as we shift gears, there's been a new announcement Netflix
Speaker 1: is getting into the podcasting business. Now you're probably like, what,
Speaker 1: Like I hear so many people say please defund the
Speaker 1: podcast mics. Too many people have podcast mics. And then
Speaker 1: you get this story about Netflix getting into the podcast
Speaker 1: of business because they just in ink to deal with Spotify.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that they're gonna run around giving everybody
Speaker 1: more podcasts. Spotify is already doing that black effect. Does
Speaker 1: it better shout out to you know, ganggang. But what
Speaker 1: is gonna happen is major podcasts with viewership with the video.
Speaker 1: Netflix is going to come in and say, come on
Speaker 1: over here, we got a home for y'all, and how's
Speaker 1: the video podcast? And this is interesting to me because
Speaker 1: you guys know, and I've talked about this and you know,
Speaker 1: several different conversations here on the podcast. When I went
Speaker 1: to Memphis to the podcast fest, the pot Box Podcast
Speaker 1: Festival in Memphis, one of the things I talked about
Speaker 1: was and when I got in the you know, got
Speaker 1: into all of this podcasting because of the latest with
Speaker 1: Lon La Rosa, I didn't really understand the like, what
Speaker 1: was the big deal about the audio? For me, I'm
Speaker 1: a visual person. I like to see things. I like
Speaker 1: to see people's reactions. I like to see the laugh,
Speaker 1: the upset, the cries. Like I just attached to things
Speaker 1: I can see. I like to see the coloring, the
Speaker 1: you know all of that podcasts that are only audio,
Speaker 1: I can't really think of too many of them. Besides,
Speaker 1: I will say The Read, The Read, and not necessarily recently,
Speaker 1: but I remember The Read being one of the first
Speaker 1: podcasts years ago that I was actually listening to religiously.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know what the people look like
Speaker 1: because I could only listen to it. And even right now,
Speaker 1: as I'm talking about The Read, I don't think about
Speaker 1: what the hosts look like. I think about what their
Speaker 1: art of their podcast is, you know, the two head
Speaker 1: figures that like pinkish salmon color, like it's branded around
Speaker 1: just the art of the podcast because they never had video.
Speaker 1: They still don't have video. Crystal who now has stepped
Speaker 1: off and she's doing her own podcast that will be video,
Speaker 1: but they've never had video. And it's very successful podcast.
Speaker 1: But I didn't really understand, you know, what the business
Speaker 1: was behind the audio. So I feel like I'm learning
Speaker 1: that as I'm going and I really begin to understand
Speaker 1: that with us and our success here at the Latest
Speaker 1: with Lona Rosa. But I always thought video was like
Speaker 1: the utmost and foremost important and then I kind of
Speaker 1: took a step back from that. Y'all know, we're back.
Speaker 1: We do have a video component. But when I saw
Speaker 1: this Netflix deal with Spotify, I'm like, yeah, there it is.
Speaker 1: That's why, because I mean, you're it's always been a
Speaker 1: thing that you can do deals for the video side
Speaker 1: of your podcast with networks and like all the people.
Speaker 1: But for a big platform like Netflix, it be like,
Speaker 1: come here, we need to be in business with y'all.
Speaker 1: That means that there is growth happening on the video
Speaker 1: side of podcasts, and it's possibly growing to not just
Speaker 1: be a marketing tool, but an actual force in podcasting
Speaker 1: because audio is a force. Like I can't even describe
Speaker 1: to you guys how much audio from the radio to
Speaker 1: podcasting has changed my whole life in three sixty five,
Speaker 1: but it really has. And now I'm reading this article
Speaker 1: and I'm hearing from you know, the execs at Netflix
Speaker 1: and Ted Sarandos, who is the co CEO of Netflix.
Speaker 1: He gave Deadline a quote when they made this announcement.
Speaker 1: He says, as a popularity of video podcasts grow, I
Speaker 1: suspect you'll see some of them find their way to
Speaker 1: Netflix and then they have some information here in the
Speaker 1: article that says last year, Spotify founder and CEO Daniel
Speaker 1: Ck said that the number of creators publishing video on
Speaker 1: Spotify had grown by more than fifty percent year on year.
Speaker 1: So with this deal, we will now see Spotify produce
Speaker 1: series from its Spotify studios and the Ringer launch on
Speaker 1: another platform. One of these shows that will be coming
Speaker 1: on over to Netflix is the Bill Simmons Podcast. Anytime
Speaker 1: you see something like this where a major platform is
Speaker 1: reevaluating their business structure and bringing something in because it's growing,
Speaker 1: that means that there's about to be such a centered
Speaker 1: focus around just that. And don't get me wrong, podcasts
Speaker 1: or that they everybody's got one. Everybody. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people who only do video podcasts, right, they don't
Speaker 1: even they're not focused on the audio. For a long time,
Speaker 1: you know, that has been the that's been a big
Speaker 1: no no to not be focused on audio. And I
Speaker 1: still think with Netflix getting in the game, that'll still
Speaker 1: be a thing. Like I think the way that podcasts, uh,
Speaker 1: the way that podcasts. The way that podcasts have been
Speaker 1: set up and positioned, audio is literally become like a
Speaker 1: daily part of people's lives. It's not live like radio.
Speaker 1: And I've learned that radio is that it's a daily
Speaker 1: part of people's lives, but it's live, like you can
Speaker 1: turn you on and hear me while you're headed to
Speaker 1: your job. Right. Podcasting is that, but it's a bit
Speaker 1: more like schedule. You maybe get them once a week,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe twice a month the latest to Lana
Speaker 1: Roads that we are every day and I try to
Speaker 1: keep up with It's like I don't like doing anything
Speaker 1: that is going to date itself that may seem old,
Speaker 1: because I want to get as close to in the
Speaker 1: now as I can because of what I've experienced with growth,
Speaker 1: like just from being on the radio and being in
Speaker 1: that space. I say all that to say, I don't
Speaker 1: think the way that people connect with audio, and they're
Speaker 1: very intimate and personal moments, whether you're in the car
Speaker 1: with your children or you know, you got something in
Speaker 1: your ears while you're cleaning up. I don't think that
Speaker 1: there's anything that can trump that, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: not podcasts that have been here and that have built
Speaker 1: really strong listener foundations. However, I do think with the
Speaker 1: right platform aka Netflix behind it, the right brands that
Speaker 1: will come because not only do these podcasts that are
Speaker 1: coming over already have their own numbers, but Netflix is
Speaker 1: going to bring a whole other level of advertising podcast video.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, on a major streamer like a Netflix,
Speaker 1: it's good. It can potentially if done right, it could
Speaker 1: potentially take over talk shows in the TV space, which
Speaker 1: I will say there's always been reports about how well
Speaker 1: talk shows in the TV space are doing, whether it's
Speaker 1: daytime talk show or nighttime talk shows. Right, but imagine
Speaker 1: if your favorite streamer, your favorite your favorite streaming platform
Speaker 1: aired a daily talk show that kept you up to
Speaker 1: date with whatever it is you love to know about
Speaker 1: the same way your favorite local CBS or ABC or
Speaker 1: you know, Fox channel did. That's where I always when
Speaker 1: I thought about, you know, a podcast and a show,
Speaker 1: That's what I always thought. I wasn't audio focused first
Speaker 1: until I got in it and realized the impact of it.
Speaker 1: But coming into this, I was always like, if we
Speaker 1: build out the video, we can end up on a
Speaker 1: streaming platform because that's where people are and people used
Speaker 1: to like even when people ask me, like, what's your goal,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, one of my goals and storytelling is
Speaker 1: to have a TV show and to be on TV
Speaker 1: not just as a talk show host, but as an
Speaker 1: actress and all these things. When I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's not TV, though not in a general
Speaker 1: and like traditional way that we think of a TV
Speaker 1: show or if I'm acting in a TV series, It's
Speaker 1: like it's streaming. But think about how many daily talk
Speaker 1: shows you have on streaming platforms. This is going to
Speaker 1: unlock a new character. Netflix is onto something here, I
Speaker 1: do think, and I'm interested to see. I was reading
Speaker 1: some of the shows that they have and that they
Speaker 1: will be leaning to in this you know, first round
Speaker 1: of this partnership. I do think it's going to be
Speaker 1: interesting to see what show served best from Spotify and
Speaker 1: or YouTube and you know audio and just doing video
Speaker 1: as like their marketing piece and a visual piece now
Speaker 1: coming over to Netflix. But I'm also interested to see
Speaker 1: who's the first platform that's going to do it in
Speaker 1: a way where we can watch it live. Like imagine
Speaker 1: if you take like a Wendy Williams stole show, a
Speaker 1: Ladies with Laura l Roza and you put that show
Speaker 1: daily on a streaming platform, but you do it live
Speaker 1: with a live audience, so you're able to watch me
Speaker 1: on your favorite streaming or your Netflix, Amazon Prime. And
Speaker 1: then whenever you miss the live episodes, it's just like
Speaker 1: on demand essentially, but it's meeting people where they already are,
Speaker 1: which is streaming. Whenever you miss my live episode, you
Speaker 1: go back and you binge via Netflix or via Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime to be wherever. So we look, who knows I'm
Speaker 1: over here trying to speak things into existence. But more so,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think? Where does this new partnership
Speaker 1: with Netflix and Spotify? Where does this end us in
Speaker 1: a year we'll talk shows and TV shows be as
Speaker 1: relevant or will everybody be going to streaming for those
Speaker 1: two I want to know. Get out there in the
Speaker 1: streets and the tweets. Let me know how y'all feeling.
Speaker 1: It's Laurna l Roza outside, We outside every other page.
Speaker 1: This is the latest with Lona Rosa. And at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, y'all could be anywhere with anybody
Speaker 1: listening to all these things, talking about all these things,
Speaker 1: But lowriders, y'all choose to be right here with me,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate y'all for that. I will see you
Speaker 1: in my next episode.