1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: I don't know if you don't lie about that, right, 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Lauren came in hot, Ladies and gentlemen, please stand up, 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: make some noise and give a warm welcome to Lauren Lorosa. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: What of LL cool Baby, make some noise for LL 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 2: cool Bay. 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: Y'all, don't act crazy up here. 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 2: We're happy to have you here though, you know, happy 8 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 2: to have you as part of the iHeart Black Effects family. 9 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: But tell the people a little bit about your journey 10 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 2: to get here. What the long version. 11 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 3: Too, Well, it's been a journey. I'm from Delaware. I'm 12 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:32,599 Speaker 3: from Womanton, Delaware. I went to. 13 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 4: Ain't that many people in Delaware. 14 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 3: Don't be mad, y'all saw I looked at him first. Well, 15 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 3: I'm from Womington, Delaware. I went to Delaware State University. 16 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 3: After I graduated from a high school called Howard High 17 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 3: School Technology and all of the schools that I attended, 18 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 3: it was like very important for you to get out 19 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 3: and do something. I've always been doing a lot of 20 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 3: this stuff, so, you know, getting on microphones talking to people, 21 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 3: just trying to, you know, tell stories. I went to 22 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 3: La in La. I found away on this tour bus, 23 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 3: the TMZ tour bus. I was doing that for some time. 24 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 2: And then how do you know you needed to be 25 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 2: in LA? Like what's parked in you in Delaware? That said, 26 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 2: you know what I need to get to LA? 27 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: Well, first I wanted to be here in New York. 28 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 3: My mom and like my like, we spent a lot 29 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 3: of time up here. We had family up here, so 30 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 3: my mom was really big on like she would bring 31 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 3: us up here, drive us through Times Square, we would 32 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 3: go see our family. So I always knew that there 33 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 3: was like a big entertainment industry. I didn't understand how 34 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 3: to make it a job when I figured that New 35 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 3: York wasn't going to work because I wanted to model, 36 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 3: and they told me that I talked too much to 37 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 3: be on the runway and that my boods were too big. 38 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going to go to LA. I 39 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: become a celebrity there because TV's in LA. 40 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 4: So you just that's very important. 41 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 2: So you just wanted to be a celebrity, Like what 42 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 2: did you want to do? 43 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 4: What was the intention? 44 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: My intention was to become a tour runway model. 45 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 3: And the reason why I wanted to do that was 46 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 3: because I always felt like if you had influence, you 47 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 3: could make money doing whatever you wanted. I grew up 48 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 3: in a household where my mom was an entrepreneur, so 49 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 3: I always knew that I I wanted to be able 50 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 3: to do whatever it was that I loved to do. 51 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 3: And I'm still figuring that out. But fashion was a 52 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 3: part of my household for a long time. So I 53 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:08,839 Speaker 3: was like, Okay, I'll do the fashion thing. I'll build 54 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 3: the influence, and once I figure out what I really 55 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 3: want to do, I'll be able to do that because 56 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 3: now people will know who I am. So I thought 57 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 3: modeling was going to do that for me. And I 58 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 3: just honestly like, I just really grew up liking to 59 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 3: tell stories. 60 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: A lot of the people in this room from Delaware, so. 61 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 3: Courtney, jayvon Ariale, we were producing fashion shows. We were 62 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 3: like fourteen fifteen years old, so we've always just been storytelling. 63 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 4: So you wanted to tell a story through the fashion? 64 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay. 65 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 3: I felt like designing, getting on the runway, putting together 66 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 3: the outfits. I was very like, like, you know how 67 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 3: people are like hopeless romantics and relationships. I've always been 68 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 3: like that about my career. So I was like, you know, 69 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 3: I'll get on the runway, I'll be able to influence people. 70 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 3: And then I've gotten the castings and they're like, no, 71 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 3: models don't talk. So I saw Rihanna on the cover 72 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 3: of w magazine with Emon, and I was like, wait, 73 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 3: she's a singer, but she's on the cover of this 74 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 3: really influential magazine with one of the biggest models in 75 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 3: the world. I have to become a celebrity and then 76 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 3: I can influence wherever I go and tell stories wherever 77 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:04,799 Speaker 3: I go. 78 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 2: Okay, so when did you realize you can't just be 79 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 2: a celebrity. You have to actually have a talent and 80 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,119 Speaker 2: a skill set, Like when did you realize that? 81 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 3: I think that bubble burst when I graduated from college, 82 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 3: and uh it was like, Okay, now you're an adult 83 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 3: and you gotta pay for stuff. And I was like, 84 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 3: there's a big gap between college graduate and celebrity with money. 85 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 3: So I was like, I gotta work. I gotta get 86 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 3: a job, and in doing that, I have really good jobs. 87 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 3: But I'd always told myself that I wanted to do 88 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 3: something that meant something because I was spending so much 89 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 3: time trying to do it, and I just felt like 90 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 3: for everything that I had done, for everything I worked 91 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 3: for even getting through college. I'm a first generation college student, 92 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 3: so even getting through college was such a It wasn't 93 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 3: a battle or a struggle, but it was I had 94 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 3: to strategize so much. And I'm like, yo, if I'm 95 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 3: taking all this time to strategize and do these things like, 96 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 3: I wanted to mean something like I wanted to have 97 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 3: some substance to it. So that's kind of where that 98 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 3: came into play. And then I started seeing things I 99 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 3: started being exposed to, like production and you know, news 100 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 3: reporting and acting and like personalities and all these things. 101 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 4: And I was like, I was in college. 102 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 3: That was in college toward the end of high school. 103 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 3: In college when you go to an AGBCU, that's the 104 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 3: beauty of it. My first day on campus, the first 105 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 3: person I met was the host for all of the events, 106 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 3: and I was like, this is God. This man is 107 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 3: just walking around hosting things. He's able to, you know, 108 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 3: have audiences of one hundred or audience of two thousand. 109 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 3: He's not doing what I want to do with the audiences, 110 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 3: but they're there. So when I saw that, I was like, Okay, 111 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 3: I gotta get on the microphone. I just got to 112 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 3: figure out what I'm gonna say, when I get. 113 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 4: There, would you major in college? 114 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: I have a business administration degree with a concentration in marketing. 115 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 2: Okay, so you go to LA and your intention is 116 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 2: to just be a celebrity, just get on TV, and 117 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 2: you ended up at TMZ. 118 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 4: Was that your first gig out there? 119 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 3: That was not my first gig out there. I moved 120 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 3: there for a PR job and my mom. I remember, 121 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 3: like my second week, I got a tape roll through 122 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 3: a thrown at me and I called my mom, was like, 123 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: if I don't leave, I'm a punch this lady in 124 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 3: her face. 125 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: So I gotta go. That was my first job. I 126 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: was there for ye like a roller. 127 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 3: Tape Oh yeah, working in Yeah, working in fashion ain't 128 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 3: no joke. So you know, she got upset in the showroom. 129 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 3: She threw some things and I was just like, oh, 130 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 3: I gotta go, I gotta get out of here. 131 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: That was my first job. 132 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 3: I moved there for that, and then I became a 133 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 3: flight attendant and then I got to TMZ. 134 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 4: See I like all of that. 135 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, cause you that's that's all part of 136 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 2: a process, right, But did you still know. 137 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 4: In the back of your mind what it is you 138 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 4: wanted to do. 139 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 2: I'm trying to find that moment when you realize, Okay, 140 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 2: media is what I want to do. 141 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 4: Was it at TMZ? 142 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 3: No, it was at TMZ. I didn't know that media 143 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 3: was what I wanted to do. To be honest with you, 144 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 3: the only media I really knew was like at that time, 145 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 3: it was like the girls online, so like Karen sibyl I, 146 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 3: of course Wendy Williams, But for me, Wendy Williams was 147 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 3: like she was on a radio and she was on TV, 148 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 3: but like radio first, I didn't really understand the first 149 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 3: step to the other with her. With Karen Sivil, it 150 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 3: was like, oh, she's on the internet, so she's like me. 151 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 3: Before that, all I knew was like the ASAP mobs 152 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 3: and like the people that got fly on Instagram. I 153 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 3: didn't know that there was like a business behind it 154 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 3: and that you could tell stories and report. So then 155 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 3: I saw Karen Sivil and then Baller Alert came around 156 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 3: on Instagram and I was like, oh okay. And then 157 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 3: when I got to TMZ and I was looking around, 158 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 3: I was realizing what was happening, and I realized how 159 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 3: everything that I had been doing up until that point, 160 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 3: it like all clicked and I was like, Okay, media 161 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 3: is important. This is where I'm supposed to be at. 162 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 3: And if I do this correctly, all of these stories 163 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 3: that I want to tell, it's going to start here. 164 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 3: But I can do that in so many different facets 165 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 3: because I'm watching TMZ crank out like specials, short films, 166 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 3: breaking news, daily digital content, all with like a team 167 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 3: of one hundred and fifty people news that's six people big. 168 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh wow, okay. But I'm also seeing 169 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 3: how we sitting in one place like right here, we 170 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 3: breaking stories right here in Africa, and all these places 171 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 3: are being hit by the stories, and I was like wow, 172 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 3: Like okay, so celebrity is a thing, but there's there's 173 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 3: like control and business behind this. That's when I realized it. 174 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 3: I was like, oh, this is a real like. 175 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 4: This is a serious how'd you've end up at TMZ? 176 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 3: I just was looking for a job in entertainment and 177 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 3: TMZ tour Bus was hiring. It was a Facebook group 178 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 3: what tm tour bus? 179 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 4: Oh? I thought, you said tokofs. I like TMZ toffs. 180 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 4: What the hell was that? 181 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 3: You wouldn't mean to be a host so bad tour 182 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 3: bus and so you used to be Oh, so you 183 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 3: was one of those people that was on the buses 184 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 3: like pointing at people's houses. Not point we weren't allowed 185 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 3: to go to people's houses, but we would go to 186 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 3: like Beverly Hills or Dale Drive. We would take you 187 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 3: past a guitar center, Hollywood, you know, Walk of Fame 188 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 3: all that stuff. But I would have to get off 189 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 3: the bus and go talk to celebrities. And that was 190 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 3: when I realized, like, I'm not just like cute and 191 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 3: on this bus. I really do this because all of 192 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 3: the like you know, they had like cute tour guys 193 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 3: that would get off you go grab the clips. It 194 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 3: might hit the website, it might hit their social media, 195 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 3: and they weren't TMC was never social media focused. They 196 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 3: were always focused on their dot com, so stuff wouldn't 197 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 3: make it to the website. I got on the bus 198 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 3: and just started doing what I naturally knew how to do. 199 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 3: They're like, okay, when you see celebrities, go and talk 200 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 3: to them. So I made it my business to always 201 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 3: know what was going on. So when I talked to them, 202 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 3: I knew what to talk to them about. And my 203 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 3: stories started like like I would get on my phone 204 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 3: and it'd be like, wait is this me? This is 205 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 3: my voice? You don't see me, and they're not saying 206 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 3: my name. But I'm like, oh, these interviews are being 207 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 3: used and circulated on the dot com to then the 208 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 3: TV show, to then all these other outlets. 209 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: And I'm making fifteen dollars an hour work or two 210 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: hours a day. I'm like hold up. Like then I 211 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: started realizing. 212 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 3: Like, oh, okay, this is a thing. Like it's not 213 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 3: just you're in front of the camera. It's like the 214 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 3: circulation of everything, the attributions, the like. 215 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,079 Speaker 1: It was all slowly clicking. 216 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 4: So you pivoted the production side of things. 217 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: I bullied my way into production side of things. 218 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 3: I told them I was two years on the tour 219 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 3: bus and I was so good at it that they 220 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 3: didn't want me to stop doing it. They wanted me 221 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,559 Speaker 3: to do the proparazzi, so they wanted me to run 222 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 3: down on people and I was like, i'll be outside 223 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 3: with these people. I'm not doing that. They wouldn't let 224 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 3: me into the newsroom. They told me I wasn't ready 225 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 3: for it, so they gave me a PA position. From 226 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 3: the PA position, they tried to keep me there, so 227 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 3: I quit. When I quit, they called me back and 228 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 3: was like, well, what do you want to do? And 229 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 3: I was like, I want to be on the news desk. 230 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 3: They was like, well, the news desk is hard. I 231 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 3: remember Van was like, you're going to try the news desk. 232 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 3: I was like, yes, that's what I want to do. 233 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 3: He was like, what, You're trying to not have a job, 234 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 3: and I was like, I promise you why, I can 235 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 3: do it. They gave me an associate producer role on 236 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 3: the news desk and I was there for like a 237 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 3: week and I broke a store. 238 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 2: One thing I like about Laurd is Lauren always knows 239 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 2: when to pivot. 240 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 4: When did you know it was time to pivot from. 241 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: Tmz oh I knew for like a year. I just 242 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: felt it. 243 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 3: I felt like there was no more growth and I 244 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 3: felt like even if I had tried something new, I 245 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 3: would be doing something new, but I would be I 246 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 3: would be going like this, which there's nothing wrong with 247 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 3: going like this, but I felt like all of the 248 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,199 Speaker 3: skills that I had already learned and what I could 249 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 3: obtain in addition to what I already had, I could 250 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 3: do elsewhere while also going like this, so. 251 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: I just knew. 252 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm really in tune, Like you know, 253 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 3: I have a really good spirit of discernment, Like I 254 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 3: really just knew, Well. 255 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 2: It's one thing to know when to pivot, but it's 256 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 2: also another to know where you need to be. 257 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 4: Like that's where a discernment comes in. 258 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 2: And I just saw this video recently a couple of 259 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 2: weeks ago, like you did a whole video basically saying 260 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,079 Speaker 2: you wanted to be on Breakfast Club. 261 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. 262 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 3: I had always said, if I'm not working at TMZ, 263 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 3: I'm gonna be at the breakfast club because who else 264 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 3: is going to hire somebody who dresses like me talks 265 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 3: like me? 266 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: And I didn't want to change that. 267 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 3: I knew that going to LA, like they tried to 268 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 3: get me to do local news, like everybody was like, oh, 269 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 3: just do local news, you'll get your reps in. I'm like, 270 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 3: I'm not a local news girly, Like it's not happening 271 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 3: for me. That that was like a cause I was 272 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 3: so on the breaking point of if I don't quit 273 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 3: this job right now, I'm going to literally be depressed. 274 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 3: So when that happened, I was like, maybe this is 275 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 3: like a sign of like things are transitioning elsewhere, so 276 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 3: they should transition for you too, because I literally the 277 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 3: day before the announcement was like, that seat ain't never 278 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 3: becoming open. They don't just hire people, and then boom 279 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 3: the next day y'all trend it on Twitter and I 280 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 3: was like, Oh, okay, but your. 281 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 2: Life has changed significantly over the last few months since 282 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,559 Speaker 2: you've joined us here at the Breakfast Club, and iHeart 283 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 2: what has that pivot been like for you? 284 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:30,199 Speaker 4: Man? 285 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 3: That pivot has been This pivot, because I'm still in 286 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 3: it has been crazy because it's like normally with the 287 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 3: pivots is like I kind of know when it's happening 288 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 3: and I know how to navigate it and have some 289 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 3: time to sit in it and figure it out. 290 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: With Breakfast Club and the way. 291 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 3: That y'all vehicle works, you don't really have a lot 292 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 3: of time to sit in anything. It's like you'll sit 293 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 3: in something, you'll get used to it, and then boom, 294 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 3: something will happen, and then that will happen, and you'll 295 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 3: sit in it and it's a new level and it's 296 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 3: new people and everybody's calling you, and then boom, something 297 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 3: else will happen and then Boom, here's a great interview 298 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 3: moment and then boom, another story break. So it's been 299 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 3: a whirldwind, but it's definitely been like I needed the challenge, 300 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 3: like I needed the elevation. I needed the Iroy Long 301 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 3: gets sharper. The pivot is happening every single day. 302 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 2: Like it's funny though, because you know, you started off 303 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 2: saying you wanted to be a celebrity, and that's what 304 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 2: I always find interesting about this generation. They want to 305 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 2: be the celebrity first, but no, the work comes before that. 306 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 2: That's why my first book I have a chapter called 307 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 2: put the weed in the bag First. Anybody in here 308 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 2: who's seen the movie Belly, remember when DMX was sitting 309 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 2: at the table with the two young boys and he 310 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 2: was like, y'all want to go out there, and I 311 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 2: want to get money with y'all. I want to get 312 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 2: money with y'all, and then like man shop and put 313 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 2: the weed in the bag first. That's what you gotta do. 314 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 2: You gotta get to work first. Then that's where everything 315 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 2: else falls into place. 316 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 3: But I think when you grow up in an Internet era, 317 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 3: because like I grew up watching people again like the 318 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 3: London Sylos, the asap mobs, like the people that were 319 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 3: using digital numbers to get anything and everything they wanted, 320 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 3: they weren't working real jobs, so it looked like all 321 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 3: they're doing is showing up big and then like things 322 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 3: are just happen, So you know, you try to emulate that, 323 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 3: and like, don't get me wrong, like we've always had 324 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 3: the following and we always look good, but it wasn't 325 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 3: getting me to where I needed to get me to. 326 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 3: And when I got the TMZ one thing that that 327 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 3: newsroom taught me a newsroom in general, you can't play, 328 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 3: you can't fake in there. Nope, I had to start 329 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 3: from the beginning, like I had to be a PA 330 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 3: because they wanted me to understand the brand. I came 331 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 3: there with experience, with years of experience and doing different things, 332 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 3: and they were like, no, you don't understand our brand. 333 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: Relax yourself. 334 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 3: So that process and all that work that I put 335 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 3: in and having to like sacrifice, I stepped away. I 336 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 3: couldn't do. I wasn't allowed to do panels. I wasn't 337 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 3: not doing any of that. They didn't care about none 338 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 3: of that. You had to be good at the job 339 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 3: or you did not have a job. So going through that. 340 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 3: That was almost like I tell people, TMZ was like 341 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 3: the boot camp that I needed because now everything I do, 342 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 3: if I feel myself getting to like the brand, the brand, 343 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 3: the brand is like, let's take a step back and 344 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 3: what's behind the curtain? 345 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: Are we really doing the work? 346 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 3: Because the brand is cute, but it can't sustain if 347 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 3: you know what I mean. The engine is all messed up. 348 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 4: Where did you learn to. 349 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 2: Play your position at That's another thing I noticed about you, Like, 350 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 2: you know, I'm the type of person all I need to 351 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 2: do is be in the room and I'll go get 352 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 2: the coffee, whatever it is I need to do. 353 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 4: I feel like you are that same type of person. 354 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 2: You know how to play your position, you just need 355 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 2: to be in the room. 356 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 3: I think that was from like years of internship fashion. 357 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 3: Fashion is really like friendly and like they pay you 358 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 3: for internships and all that now, But when we were 359 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 3: doing it, like you know, internships and like working in fashion, 360 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 3: I wish you would tell somebody what you're not doing. 361 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 3: I wish you would not go take the trash out 362 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 3: even though you're supposed to be there addressing a celebrity. 363 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 3: I wish you would like what you don't have a job, 364 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 3: you don't have enough. And if you don't have that, 365 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 3: not only do you not have that internship, but that 366 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 3: person who is had at wherever wherever it's going to 367 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 3: pick up a phone and say, hey, she don't know 368 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 3: how to do that, don't don't hire her. So I 369 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 3: kind of have been like hazed and worked into that 370 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 3: because of my work background, but also too, I think 371 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 3: in my household it is just you know, your oldest 372 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 3: girl child, you gotta just you play every position. You 373 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 3: got to figure it out for the family, you know 374 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 3: what I mean, for everybody. So that's just something that 375 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 3: I think is innate and I was raised that way 376 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 3: as well too. 377 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 2: Hustle like an intern. That's a life lesson, never lose that. 378 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: What's the preparation process to be able to pull off 379 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 2: the latest with Lauren every Day not just as a 380 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 2: segment on Breakfast Club, but as a. 381 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 4: Whole podcast at Daily Podcast. 382 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 1: Now, you got to know what's happening. 383 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 3: So even here, like before I came in here, I 384 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 3: was like, let me check what's trending on social, let 385 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 3: me look at you know what I mean, Just in 386 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 3: case I don't want nobody to like, just in case 387 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 3: anybody like pass away or something. If it's something big, 388 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 3: I gotta be like, y'all give me ten minutes. But 389 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 3: you got to know what's going on. You also have 390 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 3: to understand outside of what's going on, what people are 391 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 3: talking about, how they're talking about it. You also just 392 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 3: I think, really understanding you guys in the brand. So 393 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 3: like I watch you guys outside of the show, So 394 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 3: what are you doing outside of the show, What are 395 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 3: you interested in? How I can bring things in the 396 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 3: room that you know, intrigue that and trigger that. But 397 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 3: on the podcast side of it, one of the things 398 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 3: that I recently learned within the last week is just 399 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 3: like being well rusted and being in a very like, 400 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 3: focused and set state of mind is important because it's. 401 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 2: Just me like, and you're still in your outside stage. 402 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 2: You still like to be outside. 403 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 3: First of all, being outside at work. But I'm watching 404 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 3: interviews all the time, I'm watching social media all the time, 405 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 3: I'm reading the dot com. I'm you know, talking on 406 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 3: my way here. I got a phone call. I'm talking 407 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 3: to my friends and you know, publicists, and they'll let 408 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 3: me know what's happened and what's about to happen. I'm 409 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 3: making calendar alerts to follow back up on things, you 410 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 3: know what I mean. I'm doing all that, so that's 411 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 3: the preparation. But my outside is a little different right now. 412 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,479 Speaker 3: So you know, give me my tense. 413 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 2: In a space, you know, like like what you do 414 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 2: that can be messy, installationious, How. 415 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 4: Do you keep like your integrity. 416 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 3: I just treat people how I would want to be treated, 417 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 3: like I'm gonna tell the truth. And I've realized from 418 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 3: being at TMZ that that is my job. 419 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: I have to. 420 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 3: If I sign up for it, I can't run away 421 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 3: from it. But you know, I'll call you, I'll give 422 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 3: you the heads up. There are sometimes where I choose 423 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,439 Speaker 3: not to report on things just because either I feel like, 424 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 3: you know, the story is unfair, or I don't have 425 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,639 Speaker 3: all the information, or I don't have both sides, and 426 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 3: I never want things to come off one side. I'm 427 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 3: learning how much people now just rely on my voice 428 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 3: alone and not a brand. I'm used to being behind 429 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 3: a brand where it didn't really matter, but now it's me. 430 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 3: But the biggest thing is treating people how I will 431 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 3: want to be treated. So like if I do something crazy, 432 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 3: I'm you know, life be life and I'm a human. 433 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 3: If I make a mistake, if I mess up, you 434 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 3: got to talk about it. You got to talk about it, 435 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 3: but be fair. And I think that, you know, even 436 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 3: for the people who don't really care for me and 437 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:35,880 Speaker 3: what I do, they can't ever say I'm not fair 438 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 3: about it. I'm gonna call you, We're gonna talk. I'm 439 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 3: a call the other side. I'm going to you know 440 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 3: what I mean. I try to keep my opinion out 441 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,879 Speaker 3: of things face forward, so I always present fact and 442 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 3: then opinion will come in second, because I want people 443 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 3: to know the difference. 444 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: And I think people appreciate that. 445 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 3: That's why, you know, even when I'm talking about something 446 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,719 Speaker 3: that they're client don't like or they don't like, they 447 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 3: still call me afterward like, hey, all right, that you know, 448 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 3: got through that. 449 00:17:58,480 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: Here's the next thing. 450 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,479 Speaker 4: I think that's what was missing from the game period. 451 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 2: Like you know, people we make jokes about you always 452 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 2: reaching out to your sources, but it is good to get. 453 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 4: You know, both sides. 454 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 2: How do you do that without being influenced by the 455 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,360 Speaker 2: person you're talking to though, because sometimes the person will 456 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 2: try to influence you just to you know, push a 457 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 2: certain narrative. 458 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, that happens a lot, just because I've been doing 459 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 3: it for a while and I know that, you know, 460 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 3: if I'm influenced to push a certain narrative and that results, 461 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 3: the first thing I think about is if I get fired, 462 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 3: this person's not gonna pay my rent. 463 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: I think about that all the time. 464 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 3: I've had people offer me money not to report things 465 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 3: a certain way or not to report things not here 466 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 3: but in my TMZ days because they got, you know, 467 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 3: real deep into people's things. 468 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 1: But I always think about that. 469 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:41,199 Speaker 3: But I think now it's just you know, I have 470 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 3: a confidence in myself of like, I know I'm not 471 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 3: I know my intention. My intention is not to like 472 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 3: ruin somebody's life, ruin someone's career. I know that I'm 473 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 3: careful about how I do things, and that's why I'm 474 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 3: so careful. That's why I cast so many people five 475 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,679 Speaker 3: six o'clock in the morning, because I would want somebody 476 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 3: to do that for me. And I've had conversations with 477 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 3: celebrities who've been like, yo, that headline costs me forty 478 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 3: thousand dollars, that's how I feed my kid and when 479 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 3: and I'm like, but I didn't write the headline. 480 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, but you the only black face I know there. 481 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 4: You talk about when you're working at MC Yeah. 482 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 3: Not now, not now. I haven't had that happen now. 483 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 3: I have had people get upset about some things that 484 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 3: we talked about up here. But to be fair, one 485 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 3: of the things I try not to do now that 486 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 3: I have the option to with you guys, TMZ was different. 487 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: I had to go looking for it. 488 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 3: With you guys, I don't necessarily have to go looking 489 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 3: for things. And sometimes I'll come here and be like, yo, 490 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 3: what if I and y'all be like, no, we don't 491 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 3: got to do that here. But it's because I'm so 492 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,199 Speaker 3: trained to be like like, I'm like a trained like 493 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 3: sniper almost sometimes and I'll be having to realize that 494 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 3: about myself, like woo, girl, you don't got to go 495 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 3: that far. 496 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: You don't got to call the FBI about boom boom 497 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: boom boom boom. 498 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 3: But because I have that ability to kind of be 499 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 3: more human now, I lean on it, like and I 500 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 3: actually do it so I know that I'm not doing 501 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 3: anything that purposely. 502 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to take anybody down. I'm doing my job. 503 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 2: Because you know how things can be twisted and manipulated 504 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 2: and you can be news real quick in the space 505 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 2: that you're in now. For those who haven't downloaded the 506 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 2: Latest with Lauren yet, why should they? What makes what 507 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 2: you do different than other entertainment news? 508 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 3: I think, first of all, no one else can be me, 509 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 3: Like people don't have my experience, my background, my personal 510 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 3: experience that I'm putting into things. But also too, I 511 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,479 Speaker 3: think if you look around the market right now, like 512 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 3: there's no one that looks like me doing what I'm 513 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 3: doing the way that I'm doing it. I'm like, every 514 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 3: now and then tell you a story and just throw 515 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 3: my opinion on it. But if I'm telling you something 516 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 3: for the first time, there's no time where I'm going 517 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 3: to tell you and it just is like, oh shoot, 518 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 3: she was off And if that ever does happen, I'm 519 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 3: gonna come back and I'm gonna talk to you about 520 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 3: it so that you can trust what I'm saying. And 521 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 3: I don't think that like you know, you're not gonna 522 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 3: get that nowhere else, Like you're literally not going to 523 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 3: get that anywhere else. 524 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: And a minute I realized that, I was like, oh girl, 525 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: this is gold. 526 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 3: So if you don't have the podcast downloaded already, I 527 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 3: don't know why you went on with some gold in 528 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 3: your back pocket. 529 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 4: Who influenced you in the media space. 530 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: Karen Silvil, Wendy Williams, miss Info. 531 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 4: Do you remind me of miss Info? 532 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: Yeah? Miss Info? 533 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 3: Uh, Harvey Harvey Levin, Raquel, you you were big. 534 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: I read your book. I read your first book twice. 535 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 4: You don't have to say that just because I'm sitting here, Lauren. 536 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 3: First of all, you know, I don't even like you 537 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 3: enough to say that because you're sitting here. 538 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: I really read your book twice. 539 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 3: Angie Martinez, of course she was her when Angie Martinez 540 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 3: and Wendy Williams were like because with them those were 541 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 3: like probably like the two major people because they did 542 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 3: it so big. But it was so like like they 543 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 3: were just so like you know what I mean, Like 544 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 3: they were flying yeah, and it was just like even now, 545 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 3: like I remember the first day I saw Anie Martinez here, 546 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 3: I was like, oh shoot, and all the producers like, 547 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 3: what's wrong, what's going on? I was like, Angie Martinez 548 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 3: just walk by and it was like, yes, she works 549 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 3: right over there. I was like, y'all don't understand, because 550 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,360 Speaker 3: for me, it's like these people are like not real humans, 551 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 3: like they're larger than life. I've watched old clips of hers, 552 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 3: old interviews. I've heard all of the old hip hop stories. 553 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,120 Speaker 3: I've you know what I mean, read the book Why they. 554 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 4: Got to be old? Classic hip hop stories. 555 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, classic vintage throwback blockbuster. 556 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 4: There you go all at yes, all that DVD. 557 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: Huh, no body do that? No word. 558 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 2: What do you see for the future of Lauren Lrosa 559 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 2: in the Lauren Lrosa brand? 560 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 3: Well, I see Brown Girl Grinding as a production company 561 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 3: becoming like the Nike of content and storytelling, so putting 562 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 3: out great things across the platforms, like you know, series, 563 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 3: other news platforms, whatever that develops into, because I don't 564 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 3: think news is going to be like how it is now. 565 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 3: I think with the streamers and with what I'm doing, 566 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 3: and once I master what I'm doing the right way, 567 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 3: everything is about to change. But we're going to be 568 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 3: at the KYLMN of being able to present that in 569 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 3: other people's and you know, on the company. But for 570 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 3: Laura la Rosa, I see, you know, me being like 571 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 3: the biggest trusted voice in the space and not just 572 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 3: like like hip hop, like pop culture in general, like 573 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,239 Speaker 3: anything that is moving. That is important that you should know, 574 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 3: that you should be educated on that you live your 575 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 3: life on. You're going to be like, whoa, what does 576 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 3: Lauren have to say about this? And who are her constituents? 577 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 3: Like who is she talking to about it? Who is 578 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 3: she bringing into it? And whatever the platform may be, 579 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 3: because I don't know if it's going to be YouTube. 580 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna be twitched. 581 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 3: But wherever we land, you know, I'll dominate that space 582 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 3: in a way where you have to like you can't 583 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 3: get around. 584 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 4: Me dominate them all. 585 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't. 586 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 3: I'm just saying like, I don't know if like two 587 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 3: or three years from now, it's where it's. I don't 588 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 3: feel like it's going to be what it is right now. 589 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 3: I think things are changing so fast. 590 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 4: And we will meet them where they are. 591 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 2: You know, they see your time back in the day, 592 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 2: they say, if you build it, they will come. Nowadays, 593 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: you got to build it and then meet people where 594 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 2: they are. Make sure you download the latest with Lauren. 595 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 2: I want to thank all of y'all for coming out. 596 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 4: Salute Laura. La Rosa makes no noise, ll cool bit y'all. 597 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 4: Mm hmm