Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: what's up. It's Laura Rosa and this is the latest
Speaker 1: with Laura the Rosa, your daily dig on all things
Speaker 1: pop culture, entertainment, news exclusives. But y'all know we're going
Speaker 1: to get into those conversations that shake the room now.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Laura l Rosa and Low Riders. We
Speaker 1: always kick you off with the behind the scenes of
Speaker 1: the grind checking, which is normally where I give you know, myself,
Speaker 1: my guests whoever is here to be on the pod
Speaker 1: sometime to talk about how they feel. Normally it's one
Speaker 1: word and then you have to explain the word. Today,
Speaker 1: if I'm putting how I feel into one word, I
Speaker 1: am blessed. I don't know what else to say besides
Speaker 1: I'm blessed today. This past weekend, I got to spend
Speaker 1: some time close to the home. I didn't get to
Speaker 1: see family the way to that normally, which is always
Speaker 1: so different for me because I'm like very very very
Speaker 1: very very family oriented, like super to traditional. We do
Speaker 1: every holiday together. Any free minute I get, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to see my family, going to see my grandmother,
Speaker 1: going to see my mom. And I was working this
Speaker 1: weekend in Philadelphia for the Roots Picnic. I did a
Speaker 1: conversation on Friday in honor of the new BMF series
Speaker 1: that is coming to Stars on June sixth. So I
Speaker 1: did a conversation with Da Vinci, who plays Terry or
Speaker 1: Southwest t in the show. If you guys are familiar
Speaker 1: with the show, he's one of the main characters, and
Speaker 1: a music supervisor named Big Tank, who was the person
Speaker 1: that basically make sure all the music is popping and
Speaker 1: is what we want to hear when it comes to
Speaker 1: the show. And being in Philly, being close to the
Speaker 1: home and you know, I was like, I was in
Speaker 1: such a space of like, Okay, do I go home,
Speaker 1: do I, you know, head to Delaware? Do I like
Speaker 1: all of the things. But I told mysel that I
Speaker 1: was going to take this weekend. After I finished that
Speaker 1: gig Oh, I also got to talk to Malcolm d
Speaker 1: Lee and Black Thought as well. Last minute they needed
Speaker 1: to moderate it for a final conversation. After then I
Speaker 1: was already at so I was like Okay, yeah, Bet,
Speaker 1: which was an amazing conversation because the best Man Unfinished Business,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Deey's new book, it's here, it's out, It's it's well,
Speaker 1: it's coming out. So getting to talk about that and
Speaker 1: then talking to Black thought about just the Roots Picnic
Speaker 1: and you know, the history and the culture of the
Speaker 1: Roots and all those things were amazing. But as I'm
Speaker 1: in those moments and I'm like, man, like, this is fire.
Speaker 1: Like I've you know, grown up in Delaware. You hear,
Speaker 1: I've never gone to the Roots Picnic, but all my
Speaker 1: friends have gone. You know. It's it's such a thing.
Speaker 1: Today I'll be here and be a part of it
Speaker 1: as a blessing. But also I'm like, yo, I'm so
Speaker 1: blessed because I'm actually you know, I have a lot
Speaker 1: going on, and I get to soar through that, but
Speaker 1: I'm actually able to make the decision of you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm going to prioritize me this weekend, and I feel
Speaker 1: guilty about it. And that's a blessing for me because
Speaker 1: we're the oldest girl in the family, oldest sibling, but
Speaker 1: especially the oldest girl and the family. You are like
Speaker 1: the unofficial family manager, and a lot of times you
Speaker 1: don't get to make decisions just for yourself, and when
Speaker 1: you do, you feel so guilty. And I had a
Speaker 1: guilty feeling for a little bit, and then I told myself, like,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's okay, Like you have a really
Speaker 1: busy you know, next couple weeks coming up and getting
Speaker 1: back into court, the BT Awards are coming up, with
Speaker 1: y'all be in La attending, and then you have time
Speaker 1: off to come home and be with the family. Take
Speaker 1: this time for you, take this weekend for you. It
Speaker 1: is a blessing to be able to do so, to
Speaker 1: afford to do so, but it's also a blessing to
Speaker 1: have the ability to even know, hey, this is what
Speaker 1: I need. So I did that and that was great,
Speaker 1: and I got some time to like really just do nothing,
Speaker 1: and like you know what I mean, Like that always
Speaker 1: feels good to do nothing. I could have used a
Speaker 1: bit more sleep, but I did get some time do nothing.
Speaker 1: So I'm here, I'm feeling blessed and going into the
Speaker 1: latest because y'all, the Breakfast Club has started some trouble, okay,
Speaker 1: And I try to keep the Breakfast Club things and
Speaker 1: the stories separate than the podcast, but I felt like
Speaker 1: here on the podcast, I could give you guys a
Speaker 1: better breakdown of you know what happened? So Cardi b
Speaker 1: Offset Stefan Diggs this weekend. There was like a whole
Speaker 1: thing last week on The Breakfast Club. I did a
Speaker 1: segment during the Latest with Lonena Rose on The Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club where we talked about the fact that Offset recently
Speaker 1: filed for sponsive support. Now here's how I like to
Speaker 1: break it down. This is why I'm so great that
Speaker 1: I have the podcast. I'm so blessed again that word
Speaker 1: to have the podcast because I can take time to
Speaker 1: talk y'all through things that I wouldn't have the time
Speaker 1: to take y'all through if I'm on air the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: even if it comes up, the time is just not
Speaker 1: the same because it's me and three other people in
Speaker 1: the room. So when I do stories, even if I'm
Speaker 1: not breaking the stories exclusively, if I'm just speaking on them,
Speaker 1: it is important to me that, especially for certain subject matters,
Speaker 1: that I reach out to all parties involved. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about it regardless if I'm not
Speaker 1: telling the world new information. I don't always feel the
Speaker 1: need to just say, hey, we're going to talk about this.
Speaker 1: But if there are certain things being claimed then, you know,
Speaker 1: things of that nature. I do do that because I
Speaker 1: would want somebody to do it for me. So I
Speaker 1: got in. I saw the story. Honestly, I saw the
Speaker 1: story of the night prior. Right through it. I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of weird to me that Offset is accent
Speaker 1: for the Sparstal support because Offset is very successful, Offset
Speaker 1: makes money. Offset is an entity on his own, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, coming from migos, but now you know,
Speaker 1: he's his own artist, and he has songs and he's
Speaker 1: doing the fashion stuff, and he like, he doesn't need
Speaker 1: money from Cardi B to live. So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is odd. So I instantly reached out to one
Speaker 1: of my team members who normally reaches out on that
Speaker 1: side for me, and I'm like, hey, going to do
Speaker 1: this story. You know, there're other outlets that are angling
Speaker 1: this as if all Set needs this money because he
Speaker 1: has these tax lianes. But I went back in, I researched,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, but the tax lianes were there, Like,
Speaker 1: we found out about the tax liens the same time
Speaker 1: that we found out about the divorce, and it's been
Speaker 1: months since then. So if that were the case, he
Speaker 1: would have asked for sposal support a long time ago
Speaker 1: when Cardi B first said that she wanted to get
Speaker 1: a divorce, and that that's not the case. So this
Speaker 1: can't be the reason. Why can we try and figure
Speaker 1: out why? What is going on? Why is he asking
Speaker 1: for sposal support? So I had that person reaching out,
Speaker 1: and then on my end, I picked up the phone,
Speaker 1: I you know, called Carti's team and said, hey, look,
Speaker 1: you know here this story is out. I'm going to
Speaker 1: report it. I've reached out on both sides, you know.
Speaker 1: I I'm just doing the courtesy because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what is happening here. In the midst of
Speaker 1: me doing that, we had received a statement from someone
Speaker 1: off set team, and the statement read this, here's exactly
Speaker 1: what I said on the breakfast club. Off set team
Speaker 1: says that he does not need the money. That this
Speaker 1: was filed because he alleges that Cardi B was trying
Speaker 1: to come at him on things that were not fair.
Speaker 1: He alleges that she wants to decide when he can
Speaker 1: see the kids. He also alleges that Cardi B is
Speaker 1: asking for everything like the properties in the cars, so
Speaker 1: his attorneys did this, and he also alleges, and this
Speaker 1: is a big allegation, he also alleges that he did
Speaker 1: this because Cardi B is barely ever with their kids.
Speaker 1: So now I go back to Quarti's side out I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: here's what I've been told from the other side. I
Speaker 1: am going to give this statement on air. Let me
Speaker 1: know if you guys want to respond in any way.
Speaker 1: If not, it's totally fine. But again, just give you
Speaker 1: the heads up because I'm like, y'all, this is their marriage.
Speaker 1: Even though a lot of their stuff has played out publicly,
Speaker 1: you know, this is their marriage, and like their kids
Speaker 1: are involved. Like, the least I could do is give
Speaker 1: both sides a heads up and a chance to speak
Speaker 1: for themselves. I was told that there was no comment
Speaker 1: from Cardi's side at the sign, and then we went
Speaker 1: on air and we did it. Baby. The weekend weekend,
Speaker 1: Cardi B got on Two the Spaces and went off
Speaker 1: on off set.
Speaker 2: The fact that I'm waking up right now to see
Speaker 2: that this gu and his team, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: know it's not his team, I know it's his Gonna tell.
Speaker 1: The Breakfast club.
Speaker 2: The only reason why this man asking for spousal support
Speaker 2: because I was asking for everything and because I don't.
Speaker 1: Be with my kids.
Speaker 2: Yo, are you such a word to my mother? I
Speaker 2: want you to die, but I want.
Speaker 1: You to die slow where your die. I want your die.
Speaker 2: Slow in a bed, and while you die, I think
Speaker 2: of me. When I first filed for divorce, my lawyer
Speaker 2: fought for and just started spasting right. So I told
Speaker 2: my lawyer I asked for no child support because I
Speaker 2: want to be done with this marriage, like I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm tied up.
Speaker 1: WHOA Okay. So of course this caused like such a
Speaker 1: tumble down of things because now you have like, oh god,
Speaker 1: Stephan Diggs gets on Instagram and he does a swipe through,
Speaker 1: and Cardi b is in the swipe through. The last
Speaker 1: swipe through is Quebro from the Migos, who we've known
Speaker 1: that also has had some like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They they family, but like they've had bad blood and
Speaker 1: you know, things of that nature saying this, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh God. As soon as I saw Stephan Diggs wipe through,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, glad you like you know, y'all in
Speaker 1: love and y'all doing y'all thing. But when I said
Speaker 1: it was so patty, I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: All said is gonna get online and he is gonna
Speaker 1: respond to the things, and Lord have mercy. So then
Speaker 1: after that, Cardi B posted her own little swipe through
Speaker 1: a thread on Instagram. Stephan Diggs is in the thread.
Speaker 1: Cardi B is also wrapped up in Stephan Diggs like
Speaker 1: he would this like fur throw shaw thing to the
Speaker 1: met Gala. Cardi B is wrapped up in that. In
Speaker 1: one of the photos, she's like naked but the shawl
Speaker 1: and one of that shit looks gorgeous by the way,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, okay, yeah, all right. So that causes
Speaker 1: that back and forth. And then there are tweets that
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to respond, I mean respond, haven't
Speaker 1: been able to confirm because I went to offset Twitter
Speaker 1: and didn't see these tweets, so I don't know. But
Speaker 1: there are some reported tweets of him of Offset responding
Speaker 1: calling it like seemingly responding, allegedly responding. He tweeted like
Speaker 1: good pr rollout and he was like spiking a ball.
Speaker 1: And one of the gifts they posted a gift is
Speaker 1: just like a it's like a photo but like it's
Speaker 1: like a funny photo. So then you got Stefan Diggs
Speaker 1: who posted who went on his answer story and posted
Speaker 1: a photo of him catching the ball. He like, okay,
Speaker 1: called it like if you that's what you're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm with it, and I'm just like, Lord,
Speaker 1: have mercy, Lord have mercy when things like this happen.
Speaker 1: It's not our intent to make all of this happen
Speaker 1: at all. Honestly, I was just reporting what was already reported.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be a little bit more cautionable
Speaker 1: with it, or have a little bit more caution with
Speaker 1: it if I could, because I'm like, it makes no sense.
Speaker 1: Demand makes his own money. Why is the accent for
Speaker 1: spousal support? But what I've learned is sometimes these things
Speaker 1: you can't avoid these things, Like a lot of times
Speaker 1: you can't avoid these things, whether you know you're trying
Speaker 1: to do the best, trying to keep people and you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, locks at what was happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's a tough position to be in because a
Speaker 1: lot of time, the talent, the celebrities involved will blame
Speaker 1: you because you brought it to your platform and you
Speaker 1: made it a conversation to you whatever. But even with that,
Speaker 1: I've learned that, like there's nothing I can do about that,
Speaker 1: Like that you filed for the spousal support. It was
Speaker 1: a public filing. Actual TMZ broke that story. So they
Speaker 1: told the world about it first. We're just here talking
Speaker 1: about it and having a conversation about it. But I
Speaker 1: always try and do things with good intention. I do.
Speaker 1: I'll tell y'all that. But I was like, let me
Speaker 1: get off social media this weekend because her name and
Speaker 1: her saying in her audio like breakfast, I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: lower at mercy. Yeah. So what I did this weekend
Speaker 1: was I was only posting uh here and there. I
Speaker 1: told y'all, I took some time for myself this weekend.
Speaker 1: But I also went down to Philly for the Roots Picnic.
Speaker 1: Root's Picnic line up crazy this year. That got meat,
Speaker 1: had meat meals, push your tea, DiAngelo Maxwell, all of
Speaker 1: these people, right, all of these people. Two days, Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sunday were the actual festival days. Glorilla, who else?
Speaker 1: Uh Lotto. But here's the issue. The first day of
Speaker 1: the Roots Picnic, it was it was predicted the rain.
Speaker 1: I was actually supposed to I was actually supposed to
Speaker 1: go to the roots picnic and like do content for them,
Speaker 1: like officially with the actual picnic. And I decided to
Speaker 1: not do that anymore because when I saw that the
Speaker 1: rain was like in forecast and it was going to
Speaker 1: rain so heavily, like at one point in time, Philly
Speaker 1: was on a tornado watch, and I was so happy
Speaker 1: that I decided not to do it. So Saturday, basically
Speaker 1: you get there and the festival doors were supposed to open.
Speaker 1: I believe it a little bit after two o'clock PM
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, when I tell y'all, it's cold outside
Speaker 1: this day, it's a bit windy, it's raining. It does
Speaker 1: not feel like the end of May beginning of June whatsoever.
Speaker 1: It's raining, and I mean like raining, raining when blowing,
Speaker 1: when blowing the rain, And this is in the middle
Speaker 1: of a real park, so now it's muddy, the grass
Speaker 1: is wet. When I arrived and I wasn't even gonna
Speaker 1: go to the picnic, but after doing the conversation with
Speaker 1: the BMF stars, I was like, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: already here. The start seeing has been so good to me.
Speaker 1: Some of my friends are doing activations within the picnic.
Speaker 1: Let me just go and support y'all. We got there
Speaker 1: when I tell you, the lines were insane. The lines
Speaker 1: were insane, the VIP line, the general mission line. And
Speaker 1: as soon as I walked up and I saw people
Speaker 1: standing there in these lines in the rain, complaining that
Speaker 1: the lines weren't moving, I was like, Man, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a social media nightmare, and that is exactly
Speaker 1: what it was. Of course, it went super viral, with
Speaker 1: many outlets covering the fact that people were waiting in
Speaker 1: line for hours and requesting refunds, and I and the
Speaker 1: Roots Picnic officially actually had to come out and apologize,
Speaker 1: so they posted on their Instagram we would like to
Speaker 1: say sorry. As we shared yesterday, the rain over the
Speaker 1: last forty hours made the grounds unsafe and in abundance
Speaker 1: and caution. We had to delay doors opening, resulting in
Speaker 1: the lines to get into the festival. Please understand safety
Speaker 1: will be our number one priority. We worked hard to
Speaker 1: make sure every artist still got on stage and extended
Speaker 1: the festival hours, also that they could perform without violating
Speaker 1: the city noise curfews. Today is a new day because
Speaker 1: they posted this on Sunday, which would have been the
Speaker 1: second day at the festival. This was the day. The
Speaker 1: second day you had push a Tea and meg meal,
Speaker 1: a lot of the acts of people. I mean, people
Speaker 1: were excited about both days. But second day there was
Speaker 1: a lot of hype around it, and it actually didn't
Speaker 1: rain that day. They say, today is a new day,
Speaker 1: talking about Sunday, and we would do better. There's no
Speaker 1: rain in the forecast, and we are making changes to
Speaker 1: improve the entry process and communication overall. Because that was
Speaker 1: another thing too, Like even me as talent, when I
Speaker 1: got there, I'm like, oh, we got these lines. I
Speaker 1: don't mind waiting in the line, but I'm like, y'all,
Speaker 1: like this is like insane, Like if I didn't have umbrellas,
Speaker 1: I would have been drenched. And I'm coming in here
Speaker 1: as talent that is working with you guys, So I
Speaker 1: can't imagine how it is for people that just bought
Speaker 1: tickets randomly. Like I felt so bad for people. I
Speaker 1: got my ober and left, Like I think I was
Speaker 1: in that. I was there in that mess for about
Speaker 1: twenty minutes and then I got in there and left.
Speaker 1: They said that that next day they made the entry
Speaker 1: process and communication, as I mentioned, good better overall. They
Speaker 1: also increased the number of roots picnic ambassadors that will
Speaker 1: be at the front gates, because that was another thing too,
Speaker 1: like it just wasn't enough people working it, which is
Speaker 1: insane because the picnic has been around for so long
Speaker 1: and I think that was a lot of people's issue.
Speaker 1: People were recrossing refunds and even when I posted my
Speaker 1: BMF like photo and stuff that I did for roots picnic,
Speaker 1: I'm taking it in the streets to the tweet youth
Speaker 1: to be outside, we outside, we outside okade. Every other page,
Speaker 1: the people was dming me, I mean not dm and
Speaker 1: people were tweeting me. People were commenting under my photo like, Hey,
Speaker 1: are you gonna be reporting about this tomorrow on the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club on the podcast? Can we get our refunds? Hey,
Speaker 1: anyway you could talk to And I'm like, I have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the picnic. I just was an attendee.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, imagine if I had done all that
Speaker 1: official content and kind of like was like an ambassador
Speaker 1: officially for the picnic this year, Like not that they
Speaker 1: plan to purposely put people in the position that some
Speaker 1: people were putting, but I was so grateful that I
Speaker 1: didn't do it, because I'm like, this would have been
Speaker 1: something I don't even have anything to do with that.
Speaker 1: People would have been looking at me too. So that
Speaker 1: was my weekend. But that was a big like. I
Speaker 1: saw a lot of the blogs posting people outside in
Speaker 1: the rain, the mud. There was one like people were
Speaker 1: like HP, y'all. It was a lot. It was a
Speaker 1: lot going on. But nonetheless I enjoyed the weekend. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I do know that some people left that
Speaker 1: first day. You know, there are some people travel in
Speaker 1: from states in other countries, so they were they were
Speaker 1: kind of stuck in Philly. So they did end up
Speaker 1: returning the second day, had a good time. I'll have
Speaker 1: a bunch of behind the scenes content from the roots picnic,
Speaker 1: not the actual picnic, but from the events that I
Speaker 1: did on my Instagram I'm Laura Rosa everywhere Twitter and
Speaker 1: then also my YouTube channel. I have a blog that
Speaker 1: I'm putting up as well. So yeah, we outside on
Speaker 1: the internet because it is obviously I don't even ge
Speaker 1: other side of the picnick because it was crazy. It
Speaker 1: was in insane. But this has been the latest. But
Speaker 1: Laura the Rose that thank you guys for tuning in
Speaker 1: on the end. Yeah, tell a friend and telepriend you know,
Speaker 1: low Ryders. This is right here where they need to
Speaker 1: be at the end of the day. There's always a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about, and y'all are right here with
Speaker 1: me every single episode to talk about it. I appreciate you, guys,
Speaker 1: and I will see you guys at my next episode.