Speaker 1: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody.
Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren
Speaker 2: can't even hot.
Speaker 1: This is the latest with Laura l Rosa. I am
Speaker 1: Laura l Rosa. This is episode four. I love even numbers.
Speaker 1: I think even numbers.
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Speaker 1: Make sure you're subscribing it downloading the podcast. So today
Speaker 1: was like such a day, but I'm excited. I just
Speaker 1: got an alert. Charlomagne sent us something that I was like,
Speaker 1: what this is so lit? So on Apple Podcasts and
Speaker 1: everybody's like, where do I find a podcast? Where do
Speaker 1: I find a podcast? Apple podcast is an app that
Speaker 1: comes on your iPhone. I don't know about androids, but
Speaker 1: on iPhone you have the podcast app. It's there, it's free.
Speaker 1: Just open it and search the ladies with Lorna the Roses.
Speaker 1: What I keep telling people, but on that app, we
Speaker 1: made a list today.
Speaker 2: Yay do ah, I ain't girlways trying.
Speaker 1: Now I see how like the rap girls feel when
Speaker 1: you get like something on the Billboard chart, like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Top fifteen, top twenty, top ten,
Speaker 1: top two. So right now, I'm ranked number fourteen on
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts Society and Culture List podcast list, and this
Speaker 1: is a list that like ranks. You know, the podcasts
Speaker 1: are making some noise when it comes to society and culture.
Speaker 1: I'm number fourteen. I was number fifteen. Actually when he
Speaker 1: posted it on his Instagram. I was at BT and
Speaker 1: I picked up my phone. I was like, oh shoot,
Speaker 1: this is so lit, and then I went to go
Speaker 1: see it myself because I want to post it, and
Speaker 1: I was number fourteen, so I moved up one slot already,
Speaker 1: you know, the girl is outside, and then I'll start
Speaker 1: scrolling and looking and I'm looking at like who else
Speaker 1: is on the list, Like who are my peers, y'all?
Speaker 1: When I tell y'all almost died, Oprah was on the list, y'all,
Speaker 1: Like this is insane. So thank you guys so much
Speaker 1: for being here, for downloading the podcast. Please continue to
Speaker 1: tell your friends about it, because I want everybody to
Speaker 1: know that if you're looking for a great morning drive,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like just bite size good information.
Speaker 1: It's right here baby, period. But right now we're taking
Speaker 1: y'all to court. So the first thing I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about was Drake. You guys know that Drake has
Speaker 1: been going back and forth with Universal Music Group over
Speaker 1: the song not Like Us, even though he's positioning it
Speaker 1: and claiming that it's not specifically about the song, that
Speaker 1: it's more so about the fact that his label did
Speaker 1: not protect him and that they allowed another artist on
Speaker 1: the label speaking of Kendrick Lamar to drop out like Us,
Speaker 1: which Drake and team say is a very defamatory song.
Speaker 1: It's dangerous and there's no way that this should have
Speaker 1: been supported. So now he is suing. Okay, the lawsuit,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of back and forth, but more recently,
Speaker 1: the Universal Music Group side of things said, you know what, judge,
Speaker 1: this all is bs, Drake don't really he doesn't honestly
Speaker 1: think that we did half of the stuff that he's claiming.
Speaker 1: He's claiming that they work with bots to make not
Speaker 1: Like Us a bigger song than it was. He's claiming
Speaker 1: that they, you know, paid third party bloggers to talk
Speaker 1: about it that they paid radio like just a ton
Speaker 1: of different things right that he has claimed over some time.
Speaker 1: He's claiming everything, but the song is a bop and baby.
Speaker 2: The song is a bop. Okay, he's claiming everything, but
Speaker 2: what the truth is for real? For real? What Drake
Speaker 2: did was kind of a smart business play.
Speaker 1: He filed a motion basically asking to be able to discover,
Speaker 1: like to look inside of universal music groups, you know,
Speaker 1: all of their internal things and figure out if what
Speaker 1: he thinks is happening is really happening, or at least
Speaker 1: enough to get enough evidence to then go back to
Speaker 1: a judge and say, hey, here's what we have and
Speaker 1: never moving forward with a lawsuit. A lot of times
Speaker 1: and defamation people will tell you, like, defamation is one
Speaker 1: of the hardest things to prove because not only do
Speaker 1: you have to prove that the person in their attent
Speaker 1: was the ffamminatory and that they meant to harm you
Speaker 1: to make it where you can't get money, to make
Speaker 1: it where you can be harmed about what they're saying
Speaker 1: or what they're throwing on you, but also too, you
Speaker 1: have to really be able to prove loss, like really
Speaker 1: be able to prove it almost been like, you really
Speaker 1: have to be able to prove this. So a lot
Speaker 1: of times people go right in with the lawsuit, and
Speaker 1: normally that's because they have the evidence, they understand, you know,
Speaker 1: where they're standing legally and what they're going to lean
Speaker 1: in on. And what Drake did was, you know, he's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's what I think is happening. Here's my long laundry
Speaker 1: list of things that I think is happening. But I
Speaker 1: want to go in and do I want to poke
Speaker 1: around a little bit because I need to figure out,
Speaker 1: like if I'm shooting, who's my target? Who's my target?
Speaker 1: I thought that was actually pretty smart. I also thought
Speaker 1: that this was smart too, because if I'm Drake, and
Speaker 1: you know, the conversation around us was that Drake, you know,
Speaker 1: was negotiating, you know, renegotiating with the label and trying
Speaker 1: to do all these things. If I'm doing that and
Speaker 1: I feel like my label isn't you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: giving me full transparency on some stuff the best way
Speaker 1: to get transparency about the stuff that I want, but
Speaker 1: also about me and how I impactful I am at
Speaker 1: this label in my numbers and all of that stuff
Speaker 1: is to see what you're doing across the room, to
Speaker 1: try and control my situation, to back me into a corner.
Speaker 1: And in discovery you get all of that. And there
Speaker 1: was a conversation that had come up in these legal
Speaker 1: filings about what Drake was actually requesting. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like emails and phone logs and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: also more recently, some of the things that he had
Speaker 1: been his team, his legal team had been requesting was
Speaker 1: legal documents including uh, you know, legal documents and agreements
Speaker 1: and things contracts in relation to Kendrick Lamar. Now, there
Speaker 1: was a pre trial conference that happened and Judge Janette
Speaker 1: vargas Is actually ruled that Universal Music Groups request to
Speaker 1: stay the Discovery. So basically they were like, hold up, wait, Discovery,
Speaker 1: why we gotta do all that. It's gonna cost us money,
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost us time. It makes no sense, Like
Speaker 1: we're a huge corporation. Why do we have to do
Speaker 1: all of this?
Speaker 2: Makes it?
Speaker 1: Their whole thing is is Drake's really upset because he
Speaker 1: lost a rat battle.
Speaker 2: And as a label, that is not our fault.
Speaker 1: We do our jobs, we promote our audists, we do
Speaker 1: what we do but just because you lost and you're upset,
Speaker 1: We're sorry, Prima Donna. There's nothing we could do about that.
Speaker 1: But today Drake actually made some pretty good leeway today
Speaker 1: a judge said, and oh yeah, and I want to
Speaker 1: mention Universal Music Group did act for this, like when
Speaker 1: they said all that, they said, okay, And because of
Speaker 1: all that, we want this motion to be dismissed. We
Speaker 1: don't even want to have to deal with the case
Speaker 1: at all. And that is still going to be a
Speaker 1: dressed in corporate we'll get there. But back to what
Speaker 1: happened today. So today a judge said, I'm gonna deny
Speaker 1: Universal Music Groups requests the state of discovery process and
Speaker 1: allowed Drake to proceed with requesting access to documents, including
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar's contracts with the label.
Speaker 2: This is a huge win.
Speaker 1: For Drake because if what Drake is claiming, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like all of these allegations he's been throwing,
Speaker 1: if there's anything to it that he can find, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean I think that being able to
Speaker 1: go on the inside and see conversations and things like that,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the best way to prove it. Now,
Speaker 1: will say that one of the reporters that was in
Speaker 1: the courtroom. It's a Twitter account that I follow. It
Speaker 1: is called Inner City Press. They actually reported that Drake's
Speaker 1: team had, you know, had a back and forth with
Speaker 1: UMG and that Drake's team decided that they were going
Speaker 1: to no longer move forward with the accusation that UMG
Speaker 1: paid bots like these random bots to like, you know,
Speaker 1: hyping up the song online and any different places. And
Speaker 1: they said that they did that because that was just
Speaker 1: very incremental in their lawsuit. I think their biggest thing
Speaker 1: that they're focusing on or is what was said using
Speaker 1: the word pedophile on these big stages and then Universal
Speaker 1: putting money behind allegedly according to Drake, putting money behind
Speaker 1: you know, all of this, like all of this, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's back big bag Drake down into a corner
Speaker 1: and use our big, powerful machine to do it.
Speaker 2: That's what they want to focus on now.
Speaker 1: I thought that that was interesting because normally when you
Speaker 1: have a case like this where there are multiple different
Speaker 1: claims or even if it's like so this is civil, right,
Speaker 1: but even if it's criminal, if I'm an attorney for
Speaker 1: the prosecutor, right, So that's the side that's trying to
Speaker 1: get you like I'm trying to sit you down. If
Speaker 1: I'm a prosecutor, I'm not bringing up charges that I
Speaker 1: don't think can sustain. I'm not gonna waste my time
Speaker 1: because if a jury or whoever sees you know that
Speaker 1: I'm a llegend certain things and I want certain charges
Speaker 1: and they don't stick. It starts making everything seem everything
Speaker 1: else seems a little muddy. I thought that this was
Speaker 1: interesting for them to back up off of the bot thing,
Speaker 1: and they made it seem very small and very incremental,
Speaker 1: but to me, it wasn't. To me, it said to
Speaker 1: me that I don't know if Drake's team really had
Speaker 1: enough or thought that they would have enough, or thought
Speaker 1: that it was strong enough to be able to move
Speaker 1: forward with this whole bod thing. So them backing away
Speaker 1: from that, I thought was like a little telltale sign
Speaker 1: of like, Okay, so here's what they think is strong
Speaker 1: and that they can prove, and here's what they're like.
Speaker 1: M that was cute, and we mentioned it, and maybe
Speaker 1: it is a thing, but we're not wasting our time
Speaker 1: over there.
Speaker 2: Now. What I think that this means is I think that.
Speaker 1: This means that the judge is looking at this from
Speaker 1: a perspective of like, what could it hurt if I
Speaker 1: allow it now? I don't care you know how much money,
Speaker 1: how much time it'll cost you. If we can do
Speaker 1: this now and he can find what he's looking for
Speaker 1: or not, we don't even got to do all the
Speaker 1: other stuff. We literally can iron it out. Maybe a
Speaker 1: subtle maent can happen, whatever the case may. That's how
Speaker 1: I think a judge's looking at it now. If I'm
Speaker 1: a universal music group, I'm sure that they're going to
Speaker 1: stand on we have nothing to hide. But I think
Speaker 1: it just gets a little tricky when people are going
Speaker 1: into like contract negotiations and emails and phone conversations, because
Speaker 1: you got to think about how big a record label is, right.
Speaker 2: You can't if I'm the.
Speaker 1: Head of a record label, I can't guarantee that every
Speaker 1: single employee in my record label is doing what they
Speaker 1: supposed to be doing by the book, how they supposed
Speaker 1: to be doing it. A lot of times because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people involved, there's a lot of artists,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of money being you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: moved around, and you know, songs dropping. You're just doing
Speaker 1: your job to get your job done for the overall accomplishment.
Speaker 1: And if I'm exact at universal, I can't. I don't
Speaker 1: even had a time to worry about certain day to
Speaker 1: day things. I just gotta look at the high level,
Speaker 1: and the high level of this is it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: the song is charting, Okay, the song is moving on.
Speaker 2: TikTok, how we got there.
Speaker 1: I'm just giving, I'm in good faith believing that my
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, my employees are doing what
Speaker 1: they need to do. One misstep here, right, you have
Speaker 1: thirty employees, if about three of them, maybe even five,
Speaker 1: texting the wrong way about some things, exchanging money in
Speaker 1: the way that they might even not have known was
Speaker 1: not cool to do to get things placed, or whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be, in the vein of just trying
Speaker 1: to get the job done, even if it was innocent.
Speaker 1: Do y'all know how that will look in Drake's favor? Now,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna hold y'all. I don't think that this
Speaker 1: is going. I don't think this is going like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, get him out of the not
Speaker 1: like us territory of like Okay, now, some people look
Speaker 1: at you different.
Speaker 2: I really don't think that it will.
Speaker 1: I know that people are trying to make it like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's a martyr, he's sticking up for people that are
Speaker 1: behind these labels and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: But like, at the end of the.
Speaker 1: Day, Drake is still going to be Drake. No, Kia
Speaker 1: is going crazy right now, give me a hug. It's
Speaker 1: going crazy right now. Drake will always be able to
Speaker 1: Drake if he loses this hole back and forth and
Speaker 1: there's nothing found, and you know what I mean, he
Speaker 1: just has to let it go. It makes him look
Speaker 1: like a cry baby if this goes nowhere, because it's like,
Speaker 1: yoll you did all of that.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is how I feel, y'all. Let me
Speaker 2: know how y'all feel.
Speaker 1: Tweet me at Lauren the Roads that instag at Laura
Speaker 1: la Rosa young thug. Y'all, remember on the last episode
Speaker 1: we talked about Young Scooter. We talked about that nine
Speaker 1: one one call, and there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: were happening with Young Scooter, who was the rapper that
Speaker 1: passed away in Atlanta while fleeing from police. Now there
Speaker 1: was a whole nother issue happening at the same time.
Speaker 1: With Young Scooter because Young Thug got on Twitter. He
Speaker 1: tweeted that Young Scooter autops he had came out and
Speaker 1: that he was shot. Young Thug also tweeted out a
Speaker 1: woman who works in the DA's office and said that
Speaker 1: basically she was like the biggest liar in the DA's
Speaker 1: office and.
Speaker 2: This must I think.
Speaker 1: I think Young Thug's whole point was like, there's some
Speaker 1: corruption here, but the way he went about it is
Speaker 1: not faring well for him. He did end up having
Speaker 1: to delete the tweet, especially because the Faulton County Medical
Speaker 1: Examiner's Office came out and again stood on business with
Speaker 1: what their autops he really was, stating that rapper Young
Speaker 1: Scooter passed away because of a leg injury while trying.
Speaker 2: To get away from police.
Speaker 1: But now prosecutors with the Fulton County District Attorney's Office,
Speaker 1: they're like not happy about Young Thug's postings. They filed
Speaker 1: a motion to actually revoke his probation. Now here's what
Speaker 1: they say in the document. They say, since sentencing, the
Speaker 1: defendant has engaged in conduct that threatens the safety of
Speaker 1: witnesses and prosecutors, compromises ongoing legal proceedings, and warrants immediate
Speaker 1: revoking of his probation. The motion continues to say that
Speaker 1: the integrity of this court and the safety of those
Speaker 1: involved in the prosecution are at stake. So you guys
Speaker 1: know that he because he was going through himself with
Speaker 1: you know, the DA's offices and all that. If I
Speaker 1: were stuff, I wouldn't be tweeting a dang thing. I'll
Speaker 1: put it in a group chat. You're not gonna get
Speaker 1: me publicly speaking at all. Nothing that goes against some court,
Speaker 1: no judge. If y'all have not learned anything at this
Speaker 1: point from watching all these cases or anything you might
Speaker 1: be involved in yourself, the court is all about like
Speaker 1: empathy and respect for the court. But baby, they don't play.
Speaker 1: They don't farewell with disrespect at all, Like not at all.
Speaker 1: What they're referring to in this when they say that,
Speaker 1: you know, the prosecutors and people that were put at
Speaker 1: stake is a tweet I want to read you guys,
Speaker 1: actual tweet from the He posted a photo of the woman.
Speaker 1: Her name is Marissa Vera Rito. So this woman this
Speaker 1: week because you know, it's so much going on in
Speaker 1: the court, so at this same week, there's the whole
Speaker 1: court process happening for the seven men who were arrested
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. And apparently these men you know, allegedly were
Speaker 1: somewhat tied to four PF and they remember there have
Speaker 1: been those reports of this whole like arrest warrant that
Speaker 1: was supposed to come down for a little baby. I
Speaker 1: am told that that is still coming. I am not
Speaker 1: told that that is not something that is not going
Speaker 1: to happen. And I did see reports this week of
Speaker 1: you know what I've already known. But she took the
Speaker 1: stand as a part of a preliminary hearing to determine
Speaker 1: if the seven men that were charged in the shooting
Speaker 1: depths of those two thirteen year old oo and Atlanta
Speaker 1: will go to trial or not. So at the time
Speaker 1: that this is happening, Thug posts her photo and says
Speaker 1: that she is the biggest liar in the DA office.
Speaker 1: And after that happened, apparently she received like threats online
Speaker 1: her address, her you know, her personal contact information was leaked.
Speaker 1: Family members personal contact information was leaked. Like it put
Speaker 1: her in harm's way, is what the you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? The Prosecutor's office is basically saying, So now
Speaker 1: Thug gets online and he tweets in response basically saying
Speaker 1: that he doesn't conte condone threats toward anyone, He's a
Speaker 1: good person.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I don't know why thug tweeted this lady out, Like
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us are still trying to
Speaker 1: figure it out.
Speaker 2: It's like why, Like I wouldn't when I said I
Speaker 2: would want nothing to do with nothing.
Speaker 1: Honestly, take his whole account, Maria, Scientists, please take this
Speaker 1: man's account if you want your me and your man,
Speaker 1: your man homegirl, de actiate that Twitter because it's just
Speaker 1: causing too much.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if something like this will actually cause
Speaker 1: for a judge be like, you know what, yup, probation
Speaker 1: revoked because he's obviously been keeping up on all of
Speaker 1: the other things. But what they're gonna claim is that
Speaker 1: one of the things, you can't bring harm and danger
Speaker 1: to people, especially not somebody in the DA's office you
Speaker 1: on probation.
Speaker 2: That's that.
Speaker 1: But I hope you guys have enjoyed this episode. This
Speaker 1: is episode four of the Latest with Lauren de Rosa.
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Speaker 1: end of the day, I always tell you guys this
Speaker 1: because I appreciate it so much. There are so many
Speaker 1: places and so many people that you guys could be
Speaker 1: listening to. There's so much going on, and you're always
Speaker 1: right here with me to do it. I love y'all
Speaker 1: for that. I'm signing out. I will see you guys
Speaker 1: in my next episode.