1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: and everybody. 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right. 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: It's Lauren Rosa and this is another episode of The 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: Latest with Lauren the Rosa. 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: This is your daily dose of all things. 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: Pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of the conversations that 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: shake the room. Baby already, y'all, So let's get right 9 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: on into checking in behind the scenes of the Grind. 10 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 2: So today checking in behind the scenes of the Grind. 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: I am still feeling the love from the Brown Style 12 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: magazine feature. I did some photos with the cover of 13 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: the magazine over on my Instagram Lauren the Rosa everywhere 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: if you aren't following me already. But I did want 15 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: to just take a minute to talk a little bit 16 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: about one of the articles that was in the magazine. Now, 17 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: there were a ton of amazing writers and creators that 18 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: help with the magazine together, and there was an article 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: in a magazine and it was all about like finding 20 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 1: yourself outside of your work and like, you know, as 21 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: you get older, realizing that like trying to figure out 22 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 1: work and life isn't your life purpose. So Vanessa Simmons, 23 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: the sister of Angela Simmons was a guest contributor in 24 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: this issue of Brown Style Magazine, the magazine that I 25 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: was a part of, or that I was the cover 26 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: star for this month during Women's History Month, featured Vanessa 27 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: Simmons and like a hundred other women in media that 28 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: you should know. And the crazy thing about the conversation 29 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: that she was having was that this is a conversation 30 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: that I have like almost daily with my boyfriend, and 31 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: you know, just kind of with myself a little bit 32 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: because I'm starting to, you know, like now that I'm 33 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: getting older and I'm establishing career and you know, I'm 34 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: understanding where and how i want things all inline and 35 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: fall in place, It's like I have a bit more 36 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: not a lot, because you know, I'm still new at 37 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: this and everything is, you know, being established, but I 38 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 1: have a bit more time to really, like to really just, 39 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, think about what is life like outside 40 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: of being at work. And I know it sounds crazy 41 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: to y'all, maybe that it's kind of crazy to me 42 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: to have even thought about that, because it's like, I 43 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 1: feel like, in order to have such a full life, 44 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: you're a person who does a lot. You work, you 45 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: have friends, you have family, you try to just do 46 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: so much things right. And I've always been a person 47 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: with a very full life, a lot of friends, a lot. 48 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 2: Of experiences, all of the things. 49 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: But what I've begin to realize in my adult life 50 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: is that and it's not even just in my adult life. 51 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: In my adult life as I begin to really care 52 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: about having a balanced life, Like in the last episode 53 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 1: of the Latest with on the Roads, so please go 54 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: check it out if you have not. I talked to 55 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: you guys a bit about like praise, worship, taking control 56 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: of your day, and all of that was just mental 57 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: exercises and faith and spiritual based exercises to help feel balanced. 58 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 1: But there's also things in the physical that you do 59 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: to help yourself stay balanced that I've never really prioritized 60 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: because it's always been about I need to do this, 61 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: I need to get this done. 62 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 2: I only got but so much time in the window. 63 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 2: And I still feel like all of that is true. 64 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: My industry and what I do is very out of side, 65 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: out of mind, but a part of me now understands that, 66 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: Like I just understand the totality better, Like okay, you 67 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: go take a walk three days out the week and 68 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: just learn to take a break that doesn't. 69 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 2: Stop your work. 70 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: It actually makes you stronger and show up stronger because 71 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: you're able to be more present things like that. So 72 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: Vanessa Simmons was having a conversation in Brown Style magazine, 73 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: which is the magazine I was the cover star of 74 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: this month, and they did a feature whole right up 75 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: on me as well too. You could check that out 76 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: at brownstyle dot com. 77 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: Just to you know. 78 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: She said she was with her man's side of the 79 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: family and somebody asked her, like, what do you like 80 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: to do and like as a hobby, and she couldn't 81 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: answer the question. And I remember, like there's been so 82 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: many times, even in interviews, even in that interview, because 83 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: the tagline of my cover story feature was the brown 84 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: girl Who's always on her grind and how to live 85 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: a self life. So you know, even in that interview, 86 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: they were asking me a lot about like things outside 87 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: of work, and I'm like, I don't really have, like 88 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: I work, I love my family, you know, hanging with 89 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: friends and honestly just sleep and not answer my phone 90 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: when I'm not at work. That was like one of 91 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: my like things that that kind of stuck with me, 92 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: is like I don't really have things that just helped 93 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: me be balanced. Like this whole livit of balance life 94 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: thing is so new for me. Vanessa Simmons talked a 95 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: lot about you know, even at her age. I'm thirty four, 96 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: she's older than me. I told you guys, she's the 97 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: older sister too. Angela cements how she is still figuring 98 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: that out. She says she tried a bunch of different things, 99 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: pole dancing classes, NASCAR like racing, driving, just so many 100 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: different things, walks in the park. Then she finally did 101 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: a painting sip class, not even a class, she did 102 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: a painting sip just like you know, for birthday or 103 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,919 Speaker 1: something like that. And she just loved the stillness that 104 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 1: she had when she was painting, and that has become 105 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,559 Speaker 1: something that else she does outside of being a mom 106 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: and work and just to have her life be balanced. 107 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: So behind the scenes of the grind, like that's where 108 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: my mind is today. Like I mean, I know, I 109 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: don't have like my window is different right like during 110 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,359 Speaker 1: the especially during the week, like I am doing so 111 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: much to just stay up to beat and on the beat. 112 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 1: Trending news and breaking news is very much that you 113 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: gotta be on the beat, but at the same time, 114 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: like now I'm trying to figure out, like in those 115 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: few moments during the week and those big moments on 116 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: the weekend, how can I do things that help me 117 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 1: to disconnect. And I think I've been doing pretty good 118 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: about it and not feeling guilty. That's the biggest thing, 119 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: is like the guilt feeling. So when I'm home with family, 120 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,239 Speaker 1: not feeling guilty that I'm not watching my phone, watching 121 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: every you know, moving on Twitter and Instagram and on 122 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: the dot coms and the media. And then when I'm 123 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 1: at work, not feeling guilty that I'm not taking more 124 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: time for myself or family, doing things like going to 125 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: bed early on nights where I feel tired, which is 126 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: something I would never do because i would just always 127 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: be so nervous and I'm not going to be prepared. 128 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: Doing those small things like that have been kind of 129 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: like just the small steps that I'm taking to kind 130 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: of learn and understand balance. Taking a Sunday where I'm like, 131 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: all right, the first few hours of the day I 132 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: dedicate to like breakfast or you know, like waking up 133 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: with Bay, like just honestly spending some time just doing 134 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:04,559 Speaker 1: nothing and church on a routine. It just feels good 135 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: then once you hop it back into work and prepare 136 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: for that Monday. So you know, those are some things 137 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: that I'm thinking about in you know, just figuring out. 138 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,239 Speaker 2: And I've never even thought. 139 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: About stuff like because I'm not an athlete, you know, 140 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: but like even like things that just get you, like 141 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: physically moving as you get older are important. And the 142 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: other day when I was reading the magazine, I was 143 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: in the hearsalone, I was reading, and I was like, 144 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: you know what, because I do enjoy like being outside, 145 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: being in Like I love walks, I love like That's 146 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: one thing I loved about LA was being able to 147 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: just go to the beach and sit and walk, you know, 148 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: be in nature. Because I do love that and I 149 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: feel the replenishment of it. 150 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, what if we. 151 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: Did like bike riding, which is easy to say in 152 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: New York as it warms up, but it's like when 153 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: it gets freezing cold outside, girl, what are you going 154 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: to do? 155 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 2: But I'm figuring it out, y'all, one day at a time. 156 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 2: I'm figuring it out. 157 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: I'm just proud of myself for even thinking about stuff 158 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: like this. I remember Taylor, who works for Black Effects 159 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: tailor made it. She said to me one time we 160 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: were having a conversation and I couldn't really answer her 161 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: when she asked me, what do I do to kind 162 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: of like take a break? And she was like, you know, 163 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: for herself because she's a new mom. She's editing, you know, 164 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: the latest with learn the podcast Bringing Idiots, which is 165 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: with Charlamagnea, Andrew Schulton, you know, so many other Black 166 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: Effect podcasts. She was like, girl, sometimes it's something that 167 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: small is just dedicating my like twenty minutes to myself 168 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: to do my night routine, watch my face be in 169 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: the mirror, put my skin witch roser on, play my 170 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: music like twenty minutes and it does so much more 171 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,559 Speaker 1: for me as I rest that night in the following morning. 172 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: So behind the scenes to grind today, I'm thinking more 173 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: about what is the totality of everything and how can 174 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: I show up like in a way that is full, 175 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: like you know, at what I'm doing at work, but 176 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: also like dedicating that same time and energy to like 177 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: showing up for myself outside of it all. So yeah, 178 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: now let's get on into the latest. So, speaking of 179 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: showing up, I told you guys jay Z was up 180 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: to something I've been telling you guy for two months 181 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: now that jay Z is up to something with jay 182 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: Z and Beyonce. 183 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 2: You really have to pay attention to the signs. 184 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: So it is the thirtieth year anniversary of jay Z's 185 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: Reasonable Doubt, which is his debut album. 186 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 2: That is what put him on the map. 187 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: Right in the last episode of The Latest with One 188 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: on the Rosa, I gave you guys, you know, some 189 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: background information about jay Z changing his name on streaming 190 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: services and everything that led to the announcement that he 191 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: was going to be headlining the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia 192 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: this year. But now jay Z has just announced via 193 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: Rock Nation that he is going to be too doing 194 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: two historic nights to celebrate the iconic album's Reasonable Doubt 195 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:55,479 Speaker 1: in the Blueprint. 196 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 2: So it'll be jay. 197 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: Z thirty, which is Reasonable Doubt, which is the night 198 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: where he'll be featuring Reasonables out on Friday, July tenth, 199 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: and then jay Z twenty five on Saturday July eleventh 200 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium here in New York. Because I'm gonna 201 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: be honest with you, when they announced, you know, the 202 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: whole Roots Picnic and everything that was going down, go 203 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: and go down there. I'm like, yo, that is gonna 204 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: be It's gonna be lit, but roots picnic, hold all 205 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: these people, yo, like it is gonna be insane. Like 206 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: it's literally gonna be insane because it. Jay Z hasn't 207 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: been on stage, not in a real like tour fully out, 208 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: pop out way since twenty seventeen or four for four 209 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: and then he did some dates you know, with on 210 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: the Run too with Beyonce, and yes we've seen him 211 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: at the Renaissance. 212 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 2: Tour and you know, but that wasn't his stage. 213 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: Like that was like, people are going to look forward 214 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: to this, They're about to travel in from all types 215 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: of countries and places and crevices of everything. But now 216 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: there are some more dates in the rock Nation posts 217 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: that list these dates says stay tuned, so there's gonna 218 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: be some more announced. 219 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 2: I think we might get a Beyonce pop out. I 220 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 2: don't know though, because she has nothing to do with 221 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 2: either of those albums or you know, those eras of 222 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: his life. But I don't know. 223 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: I just feel like Jays and Beyonce are so crafty. 224 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: I'm always looking forward to just anything with them, and 225 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: I got to make it one of these shows. 226 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 2: We low Riders. 227 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: We have to make it to one of these shows 228 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: so I can bring you guys some live coverage. I 229 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: don't know from which one, but we're gonna figure it 230 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: out now. In other news talking about live coverage, figuring 231 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: things out, ray J. Ray J gave me a call yesterday, 232 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 1: Brandy's brother, Okay, gave me a call yesterday. He was 233 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: upset at Cameron, Mace and Shine for a conversation they 234 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 1: had on It Is What It Is, which is Cameron 235 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: and Mason's show that they do with Treasure Wilson, because 236 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: of these comments that they made about Brandy dating Mace 237 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: and Shine. 238 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 2: Let's sick a listen. 239 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 3: What happened with Brandy and everything. Let's just do it. 240 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 3: You know what, you was dating Brandy at one time 241 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 3: or you was just how to go? 242 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 4: I was special, you know he and wanted to be. 243 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, let him be special? No, no, lie? 244 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 2: So he was. 245 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 3: He was shocked. 246 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,439 Speaker 4: Okay, he was the he was the champion, He was 247 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 4: the m v P. I was Kobe No pun intended, 248 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 4: because they said Kobe was a special friend of Brandy's 249 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 4: as well, but no pun intended. But I was coming 250 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 4: out of high school on the championship team, and he 251 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 4: was the superstar of the team. But I definitely did 252 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 4: want to be special. I definitely. 253 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: Look as a woman, it's always annoying to sit and 254 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: watch men do the whole locker room talk and talk 255 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: about women, and they did women. 256 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 2: And had sex with like, you know, all of the things. 257 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: But I feel like as women were also so used 258 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: to it happening, especially in hip hop, that you kind 259 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: of like conditioned in, like your condition to just be like, 260 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: all right, they're annoying, but like whatever, move on. 261 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 2: But regy Jae was pissed off. Ray J saw this. 262 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: He saw that like the laughing, the giggling and joking, 263 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: and he didn't appreciate it. He had a lot of 264 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: things to say a lot of things which we will 265 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: have to bleep in this conversation, but his main point 266 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: was that he goes off and goes in for his sister. Okay, 267 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: don't play with him about Brandy. Let's take a listen 268 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: to some of the things regy j had to say 269 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,599 Speaker 1: in the phone call with me. Did you talk to 270 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 1: Brady about it? 271 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 5: I didn't even see that, yo, Lauren. I didn't even 272 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 5: see the interview. I looked online. I saw them niggas 273 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 5: laughing and shit, and that's all I needed to see. 274 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 2: That's it. 275 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 5: It didn't even take me five minutes ago. Y'all niggas 276 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 5: is some whole ass niggas and cheap suits. Mace looking 277 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 5: like he from the Simpsons, and Cameron looked like he 278 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 5: just had a stroke. And now he came back off 279 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 5: of it because that bottom lip ain't moving correctly, right, 280 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 5: But I'm gonna have it moving world correctly when he's 281 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 5: sucking my hands on your knees, nigga, I want to 282 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 5: threesome with all in whole ass niggas sitting on their 283 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 5: fucking knees. 284 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 2: Sucking my I just I mean, okay, I get what 285 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 2: you upset? Like you know I'm talking about. 286 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 5: Y'all gonna get period, y'all gonna get everything y'all needed 287 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 5: to get done because y'all niggas acting like holes all 288 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 5: y'all doing. 289 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: And let me tell y'all, when reg Ja called, he 290 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: was so upset. I did this interview from the car 291 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: like I pulled over, did this interview via zoom from 292 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: the car. As you can tell, a lot of it 293 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: was very vulgar, so I didn't know how much of 294 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: it we could even air or play here on the podcast, 295 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club, like anywhere, to be honest with y'all. 296 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: But I was just like, all right, if anybody it 297 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: can speak on Brandy's behalf or not even on her behalf, 298 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: but in defense of her, it's him, So let me 299 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: pull over. 300 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 2: Has had this conversation and down here we are. 301 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 3: Now. 302 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: This conversation has sparked a lot of like is ray 303 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: J wrong? 304 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 2: Where the commons is respectful or not? 305 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: Kim and Mace have not officially responded, but there is 306 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: what it is. Instagram have been posting things. They posted 307 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: a video ra Je get inspect in his face. They 308 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: posted a video of Kim and Mace laughing like I 309 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: thought somebody said something. But Seine has more directly responded. 310 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: He posted a photo with Brandy and ray J. He 311 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: put the song I Hit It First by ray J, 312 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: which is a song that ray J made about Kim 313 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: Kardashian and having sex with her. And you know, when 314 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: you look into that post, because ray J called Cameron 315 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: a hypocrite, right when you look into that post, it's 316 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: like Seane calling ray J a hypocrite as well too, 317 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: because it's like, okay, you're seeing what we can't talk 318 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: about and how we can't talk You made a whole 319 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: song about the sex that you had with a woman, 320 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: and and how funny it was. Right in the comment, 321 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: I mean, in the caption that that was posted on 322 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: Seine's photo. When he posted it, he said, let's be 323 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: let the record reflect. I did not hit it first, 324 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: most respectfully. And then he's talking about the show that 325 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: he's having on May second, Brooklyn, So he's talking about 326 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: the fact that, like, I mean, if we gonna, if 327 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: we're gonna go back and forth. I didn't you you 328 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: put this energy out there about a woman first. But 329 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: I mean, I know Sean has been having conversations about 330 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: Brady and him dating, and he's done it on the 331 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, he's mentioned it in the documentary. I didn't 332 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: feel like those conversations were out of line. I okay, 333 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: so it it was twofold. One part of me was like, 334 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: I don't like it when men named drop it's just corny. 335 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: Another part of me was like, I understand why he's 336 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: telling this story because it fits into the overall story 337 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: that he was telling about just being this like man 338 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: with this the ego was too big and Brandy had 339 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: to get on together. 340 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to that story, y'all. Let me 341 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 2: know what y'all think though, is y J Wright? Is 342 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 2: ray J wrong? Do we even care who hit it first? 343 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 1: And why are men still having this conversation at these 344 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: big ages? 345 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 2: Y'all keep me posted, let me know. I'm going on the. 346 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,439 Speaker 1: Rosa everywhere on social take it to the streets, in 347 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: the tweets. 348 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 2: I wanna hear from you, guys. 349 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 1: That has been another episode of the Latest with gon 350 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: To Rosa. 351 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 2: I tell you, guys, every single. 352 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: Episode, y'all could be anywhere with any old body, but 353 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: y'all choose to be right here with me, my low riders. 354 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: I appreciate you, guys, and I will see you in 355 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: my next episode.