Speaker 1: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody.
Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren came, Hey, y'all,
Speaker 2: what's up. It's Laura l. Rosa and this is the
Speaker 2: latest with Laura l. Rosa.
Speaker 1: This is your DELI dig on all things pop culture, entertainment,
Speaker 1: news and all of the conversations that shake the room.
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Speaker 1: Course, first things first, y'all know we check in behind
Speaker 1: the scenes of the Grind for all of my newcomers.
Speaker 1: So if you guys are new here, new to the
Speaker 1: low Rider community, my listeners, my low riders are my listeners.
Speaker 1: These are the people that ride with me, okay, through
Speaker 1: the stories, through the different events that I take them to.
Speaker 2: Y'all ride for meeting with me.
Speaker 1: So if you are new behind the scenes to the Grind,
Speaker 1: check in is you know, it's where we just you know,
Speaker 1: how you really feeling, how you're really doing, what you've
Speaker 1: been up to, where you've been because y'all know, I
Speaker 1: bring you guys the latest from wherever, whenever, never missing
Speaker 1: a day. So over the weekend I went to Power Sessions,
Speaker 1: which is a concert presented by Power One oh five
Speaker 1: to one, which is the radio station that the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club is on here in New York City. Now, this
Speaker 1: concert featured performances by my girl Lul Labrook Don't play
Speaker 1: with her, Don't play with her. Zetti Will also took
Speaker 1: the stage. My first time seeing him perform in person.
Speaker 1: I made I keep saying this because to see new
Speaker 1: artists in this TikTok era, in this social media era
Speaker 1: that you know, we all Internet kids. So to see
Speaker 1: artists even if they don't have like a full show
Speaker 1: set developed, but just know how to work the crowd
Speaker 1: and get the crowd going and interact with the crowd
Speaker 1: and on the stage should be honest with you. Very
Speaker 1: few far in between. So to see him perform and
Speaker 1: do just that was very proud of him. He took
Speaker 1: the stage, he brought out for one, brought out some
Speaker 1: people for one. It's another artist here from New York
Speaker 1: that New York goes crazy for. We also had ge
Speaker 1: Herbal hit the stage. Now when you Herbal hit the stage,
Speaker 1: because we were streaming live on the Breakfast Club's Twitch account,
Speaker 1: and we were taking you guys as much as we
Speaker 1: could into the actual pit so you could see the performances.
Speaker 2: Go check that out. I hosted that stream.
Speaker 1: If you did not see it, it is on the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club am on Twitch and make sure you guys
Speaker 1: are following me on titch as well too. I'm Lauren
Speaker 1: LaRosa on Twitch and We're gonna start streaming on the weekends.
Speaker 1: But we were trying to do as much as we could,
Speaker 1: but we missed you Herbal's performance because we couldn't get
Speaker 1: our connection right, like we were lagging. Our WiFi was
Speaker 1: too many people. Because they're still producing digitally coverage of
Speaker 1: the show outside of what we were doing for the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, they're in the venue. So we missed you
Speaker 1: Herbal on the Twitch. But I do have some content
Speaker 1: of him that I'll be dropping on social Make sure
Speaker 1: you guys are following me Laura l Roosa everywhere and
Speaker 1: on twitch as well. And then after g Herbal, my girl,
Speaker 1: Mariata Scientist pulled up Baby for the Love of Girls. Now,
Speaker 1: this was an iconic moment because I got to introduce
Speaker 1: Mariah the Scientists with Angela Ye and Angie Martinez.
Speaker 2: Y'all.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Before we went on stage, y'all, I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm living a dream right now. I literally
Speaker 1: said that to them, like, oh, I'm living a dream
Speaker 1: right now. And then Maria Scientists comes on stage and
Speaker 1: when I tell y'all, baby, that was her mother, yo,
Speaker 1: and y'all know, I don't even cuss.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I try to refrain from those type of words, especially
Speaker 1: here on the podcast, because I know I got members
Speaker 1: of all types of communities listening, from the church to
Speaker 1: the club couch. Okay, everybody pulls up for the latest.
Speaker 1: But let me tell y'all something. Mariah the Scientists owned
Speaker 1: that show. I mean, she's such a sweetheart. She didn't
Speaker 1: have to sing her songs. The crowd was going word
Speaker 1: for word with her. And it was pretty dope too,
Speaker 1: because I'd actually gotten a chance to meet Mariah Scientists
Speaker 1: earlier that morning, I did a Santa Claus like toy
Speaker 1: giveaway and clothing drive for the community in Jersey at
Speaker 1: a Boys and Girls club over there. Shout out to
Speaker 1: the Boys and Girls Club of Patters in New Jersey
Speaker 1: and all the amazing team that I got to meet there,
Speaker 1: and we got to treat them to this concert as
Speaker 1: well too. They were able to come in and see
Speaker 1: all of the talent and the acts. Take a day
Speaker 1: off of all of the community work that they do.
Speaker 1: But yes, it was amazing to get to meet her,
Speaker 1: get to kind of see her energy, her spirit, which
Speaker 1: was very like she's so chill, Like she is literally
Speaker 1: the definition of a Southern Belt. I thought she was
Speaker 1: chill in the morning when we were doing our give back,
Speaker 1: because she said she had just landed off of a flight,
Speaker 1: didn't want to be late, so she came straight there
Speaker 1: barely even dressed, and I know she was going to sing,
Speaker 1: you know, and she's singing live later that evening, so
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, sisters, preserving her voice. She is just
Speaker 1: actually like a very soft spoken, sweet girl like I
Speaker 1: love that for her. It made me even more sad though,
Speaker 1: to think about a lot of the things that we've
Speaker 1: seen her go through in her relationship with young Thug
Speaker 1: over this year, because just in me, you know, how
Speaker 1: you meet people and you're like, wow, this is a
Speaker 1: good person, Like their heart is good. The inner actions
Speaker 1: that I had with her, and we were only at
Speaker 1: the Boys and Girls Club for you know, a few hours,
Speaker 1: but literally that rang true when I met her, but
Speaker 1: she shut it down though. Shout out to Marita Scientists
Speaker 1: for coming out to the show as well, and then
Speaker 1: the show closed out with Cash Kobain who brought Basswag
Speaker 1: on the stage, and of course they took you all
Speaker 1: the way through all of their hits that have been
Speaker 1: ringing like crazy in New York and all over this year.
Speaker 2: So it was a good time again.
Speaker 1: You know, check out my social media Lauren the Rosa
Speaker 1: everywhere if you want to check out some of those
Speaker 1: performances and moments from the show. We were also live
Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club Twitch. So I'm feeling good. I
Speaker 1: kicked off my week basically doing that because that started Saturday,
Speaker 1: so kind of work started for me Saturday. Sunday, it
Speaker 1: snowed here in New York and I was just home
Speaker 1: prepping for the show. And in prepping for the show,
Speaker 1: I got a chance to watch the Kanye West in
Speaker 1: Whose Name documentary. Now this documentary has it was already released.
Speaker 1: It released in theaters sometime ago, like some months ago
Speaker 1: in AMC theaters with this.
Speaker 2: Director who you know.
Speaker 1: The conversation around him has been the fact that at
Speaker 1: eighteen years old, with no real experience outside of just
Speaker 1: like school and figuring things out, he was given the
Speaker 1: opportunity to shadow Kanye West for two years because Kanye
Speaker 1: wanted to do a documentary all about his mental health
Speaker 1: and the stigmas around it and showing people, you know
Speaker 1: that this is you know, you gotta love people through
Speaker 1: this basically and kind of way he goes through his
Speaker 1: challenges as an artist, a father, a husband, and just
Speaker 1: all of the things dealing.
Speaker 2: With his mental health struggles.
Speaker 1: Now that asked me this morning on the Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: whether this doc was authorized, And I know that the
Speaker 1: filming of Kanye West was authorized because he's literally talking
Speaker 1: to the camera talking about, you know, how the through
Speaker 1: line and.
Speaker 2: Telling the story would be. But there are some reports
Speaker 2: on sources.
Speaker 1: I remember US Weekly did a story on sources that
Speaker 1: Kanye West, although it was authorized to have been recorded,
Speaker 1: there were issues because he didn't have full editor or control.
Speaker 1: But we haven't heard anything from him on this dock
Speaker 1: since its release. Y'all know, he's been kind of out
Speaker 1: the way. But there were parts of the documentary that
Speaker 1: I was just like, I'm watching him, like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I can't even believe that, like something like this is
Speaker 1: being recorded. So Kanye West is headed to the White
Speaker 1: House to meet Trump. You guys, remember he famously went
Speaker 1: to the White House to have that conversation with Trump
Speaker 1: wearing the MAGA hat, and on his way into the
Speaker 1: White House, he calls Jared Kushner, who's a part of,
Speaker 1: you know, the Trump administration, to make sure that he
Speaker 1: is safe walking. And the reason why this like struck
Speaker 1: me because I'm like for someone who you know, mentally
Speaker 1: kind of.
Speaker 2: Goes in and out of.
Speaker 1: Whether his decision making is tracking and making sense for
Speaker 1: his day to day life. Kanye West was very well
Speaker 1: aware of the fact that that had made him a target,
Speaker 1: and he still decided to go forward with a lot
Speaker 1: of the things we watched him after that.
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen, sir.
Speaker 3: There's Jared Kushner that wants to speak to you.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's funny.
Speaker 1: No, I need to go the exact way that a
Speaker 1: foreign dignitaria would go.
Speaker 2: That's the only way I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3: And I have to go the exact way that a
Speaker 3: foreign dignitaria would go. That's the only way I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3: In wait, wait, listen, listen to me.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna step outside.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna put my life in danger.
Speaker 1: I put my life in danger by wearing the hat,
Speaker 1: and I need to be loved and respected as such
Speaker 1: because it could be.
Speaker 3: Someone out there that could be trying to take a
Speaker 3: shot at me.
Speaker 2: There's people who potentially want to kill me for wearing
Speaker 2: this hat.
Speaker 4: I have the hat on as we speak, and we
Speaker 4: need me because if I get killed from wearing the
Speaker 4: hat in front of the White House, You're not gonna
Speaker 4: win any mid terms.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna Listen, listen, finish.
Speaker 2: Listening to me and hear me.
Speaker 1: So then after this moment and then you know, the
Speaker 1: White House moment happens.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: All of this stuff is some years ago, right, So
Speaker 1: the White House moment happens with Kanye when he's in
Speaker 1: the car, Kim Kardashian calls him and I mean, she
Speaker 1: is in tears, just talking about what the consequences of
Speaker 1: his actions in the political space could mean for her.
Speaker 1: They're family, but for him, let's take a listen.
Speaker 3: I just it's like I can't sleep. I've been crying
Speaker 3: all day.
Speaker 4: It's just this bad dream that's not ending. For your
Speaker 4: losing everyone around you is like, there's a way to
Speaker 4: talk about what you feel.
Speaker 2: Well, who's everyone, who's know, who's everyone around me?
Speaker 3: Tell me who everyone is. I'm just saying people in
Speaker 3: the music business, people in the mood.
Speaker 2: I don't care about the music business.
Speaker 3: I don't care about the work.
Speaker 2: Feel this is, I'm in a slave business.
Speaker 3: I'm a slave to the universal.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Of course they're losing.
Speaker 3: Just because you have a job and you work hard
Speaker 3: doesn't mean you're a slave. That's the meaning. And I'm
Speaker 3: not about burning bridges with companies.
Speaker 4: You're gonna wake up one day and you're gonna have
Speaker 4: like nothing, because no one's gonna you.
Speaker 1: Know, no, never never tell me I'm gonna no never,
Speaker 1: you know, Never tell me I'm gonna wake up one
Speaker 1: day and have nothing.
Speaker 2: Never put that into the universe.
Speaker 1: This documentary, you know, it is very It's hard to
Speaker 1: watch because it is very invasive. There's like arguments with
Speaker 1: you know, Kim Kardashian even some of his family members,
Speaker 1: and you just kind of see the sporadic behavior that
Speaker 1: is caused by the mental health issues that he is
Speaker 1: dealing with. You also see why it could potentially I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know where he is with, you know, maintaining
Speaker 1: taking his medicines and different things. Today in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: but you see during this time why things could have
Speaker 1: been difficult, not even could have, but were difficult for
Speaker 1: people in his life, including some family members, Kim just
Speaker 1: anybody that was in his life, because he was so
Speaker 1: dead set on not taking medicines and working through all
Speaker 1: of the sporadic decisions he was making and you know,
Speaker 1: deciding to move back home to Chicago. Kim found out
Speaker 1: about that literally from the internet, he says in this documentary.
Speaker 1: Just different things that have happened, and it just made me,
Speaker 1: you know, think about, even just in the news and
Speaker 1: in the media covering some of these moments, how much
Speaker 1: onus do we put on him and you know, just
Speaker 1: wanting to cause conversation, And because there was a bit
Speaker 1: of that, I did get a bit of that from
Speaker 1: this of like, you know, he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a megastar. He's been here, done that, right.
Speaker 1: But then also too, there are moments where it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, he loves his wife at the time, which
Speaker 1: was Kim Kardashian. Then there are family members, like there's
Speaker 1: like a cousin of his that is, you know, with
Speaker 1: him as he's making some decisions when they're on like
Speaker 1: a international trip, and it's like, you know, he loves
Speaker 1: these people. You know, he loves you know, his art
Speaker 1: and everything he's creating, but everything he's doing in response
Speaker 1: to it is tearing it down. So then that's when
Speaker 1: the mental health part of it comes in, and it's
Speaker 1: like for people in his life, it's hard because it's
Speaker 1: like you're not dealing with him all the time. You're
Speaker 1: dealing with the illness that he is dealing with right
Speaker 1: and how well that is or is not managed. And
Speaker 1: he's talked about not wanting to take medicines for various reasons,
Speaker 1: including how they make him feel when he's trying to create.
Speaker 1: So it's just, you know, it was it was a
Speaker 1: very tough watch for that instance, especially if you are
Speaker 1: a Kanye West fan. But I think if the goal
Speaker 1: is to expose people to the reality and the rawness of,
Speaker 1: you know, people who deal with mental health issues on
Speaker 1: a daily while also dealing with real life, it definitely
Speaker 1: did that. It definitely made me think about the conversations
Speaker 1: I have about Kanye West and the things that he
Speaker 1: even I thought back to the mayback and Kim on
Speaker 1: Kim on Call Her Daddy podcast and her talking about
Speaker 1: him giving away his maybacks, and I think she tried
Speaker 1: her best explain, you know, how difficult things were because
Speaker 1: his behaviors had began to change as his mental health
Speaker 1: issues really set in.
Speaker 2: But I don't even think she did the best job
Speaker 2: explaining it there.
Speaker 1: I think people picked it up as if he was
Speaker 1: just this like crazy And I don't mean crazy to
Speaker 1: like down people dealing with mental health. I mean it
Speaker 1: like this sporadic person who just has horrible decision making,
Speaker 1: and then you watch his doc and it's like, oh no,
Speaker 1: it's so much deeper than that. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people in twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: honestly want to even care enough to humanize Kanye West
Speaker 1: because of some of the things that he's done and
Speaker 1: he said, and all the ups and downs he's taken
Speaker 1: fans through and the people through and all of that.
Speaker 1: But it did it for me for sure. And I
Speaker 1: was at TMZ when he did the Slavery is a
Speaker 1: Choice conversation and seeing his sporadic personality change in real
Speaker 1: life did that as well. But seeing more of it
Speaker 1: here and knowing that this was such a constant thing
Speaker 1: with people really close to him definitely makes you put
Speaker 1: things into a perspective a lot, a whole lot differently.
Speaker 1: Now switching gears a bit, we are going to head
Speaker 1: on over to a story that broke Sunday here in
Speaker 1: New York City. So senior Trey Songs was arrested for
Speaker 1: us SAW after allegedly punching a New York nightclub employee
Speaker 1: in the face earlier this month. So this went down
Speaker 1: earlier this month, earlier in December, December fourth, is what
Speaker 1: the report state. And they alleged that this happened after
Speaker 1: the employee told him that the spot that he was at,
Speaker 1: the club he was at was closing. Now the reason
Speaker 1: why so he saw a judge on Sunday for this,
Speaker 1: but the reason why he was in police custody Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I talked about this morning on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: But I have a bit more clarity since speaking to
Speaker 1: you know, sources close to Trade Songs and further getting
Speaker 1: information following a statement I received from Trey Song's attorney.
Speaker 1: So from what I am told right, Trey Songs was
Speaker 1: at a different nightclub called mer here in New York
Speaker 1: City over the weeks. I am told that there was
Speaker 1: an alleged altercation that happened. I'm told that there was
Speaker 1: a party involved outside of Trey Songs, so it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, Trade Songs and his people and there was
Speaker 1: a party that they got into it with. From what
Speaker 1: I'm told, there's allegations of a gun being pulled at
Speaker 1: some point because there was a big fight that ensued
Speaker 1: and there was a bunch of damages to this local lounge,
Speaker 1: just like a hookah lounge. So because of the fight,
Speaker 1: you know, things were broken. There are allegations of chairs
Speaker 1: and different things, hookahs, different things being broken because of
Speaker 1: the fight. At some point when this physical altercation occurs,
Speaker 1: i am told that there's an alleged gun that was shown,
Speaker 1: which is you know, it made everything even worse. So
Speaker 1: they made the fight and everything even worse. Once everything
Speaker 1: calmed down and the parties were broken up, I'm told
Speaker 1: that Trey Songs offered to pay for the damages that
Speaker 1: were done and tried to explain kind of what happened.
Speaker 1: And I'm told, you know that trying to explain that
Speaker 1: he was like defending himself a bit. But at one
Speaker 1: point the club owner was okay to just allow him
Speaker 1: to cover damages to move on. But then police were
Speaker 1: called and he was arrested. I did ask, what was
Speaker 1: this issue even about, Like, what was so upsetting that
Speaker 1: you are fighting at because you know, at this point
Speaker 1: it's wee hours of the morning. You're fighting wee hours
Speaker 1: of the morning in the club. You're not out having
Speaker 1: a good time. You're supposed to be, you know, drinking,
Speaker 1: having a good time with your people. And from what
Speaker 1: I'm told, it was it's alleged that there was a
Speaker 1: woman who wanted to join Trey Songs's like party that
Speaker 1: he was partying with, so you know, his area where
Speaker 1: he was wanted to join that, and there are another
Speaker 1: group of people who she had formerly been partying with
Speaker 1: had an issue with that from what I'm told, and
Speaker 1: these allegations I'm told are what spent into this big situation,
Speaker 1: altercation that led to him getting arrested. When he was
Speaker 1: placed into cuffs and arrested Sunday, they then saw, you know,
Speaker 1: that there was that he had also had to face
Speaker 1: charges for an altercation that happened, you know, a few
Speaker 1: weeks earlier in a nightclub in New York City. So
Speaker 1: he saw a judge. He was released on his own recognents.
Speaker 1: And he has to go back to court later in February. Now,
Speaker 1: if I'm Trey Songs at this point, not even because
Speaker 1: of this incident, because there's been so many other alleged incidents,
Speaker 1: I probably would be staying home, my behind home at this.
Speaker 2: Point, Like I just would.
Speaker 1: I feel like the easiest way to not get into
Speaker 1: anything is to not be around for nothing, which is
Speaker 1: a horrible life to have to live. But you know,
Speaker 1: in the statement that I received from his attorney, and
Speaker 1: I'll read that statement to you guys, one of those
Speaker 1: things that they pointed out was that they believe that
Speaker 1: Trey Songs, as a public figure, is often treated as
Speaker 1: a target for instigation in pursuit of headlines or financial gain.
Speaker 1: His attorney says, we are confident that the facts will
Speaker 1: speak for themselves. If it's to that point where I'm
Speaker 1: having to say that multiple times, after multiple allegations and
Speaker 1: think I'm just staying home, I am, like I really
Speaker 1: just am, because nothing's going to happen here.
Speaker 2: But he's going to go back to court.
Speaker 1: Even if this is thrown out, the headline of him
Speaker 1: being arrested, and you know, all of the allegations is
Speaker 1: always going to be way bigger than the follow up.
Speaker 1: If I'm being honest with you, guys, I would just
Speaker 1: stay home like I honestly would at this point, and
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: Trey, so put out some new music.
Speaker 1: Stay home, put out the music, stay out the way,
Speaker 1: work like or also too, I mean you could do
Speaker 1: your own private situation. I mean no, because then allegations
Speaker 1: come from that too.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a leads along the road. So all I know
Speaker 1: is what I've recorded to y'all. I don't know how
Speaker 1: people should live their lives at this point. Twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five is a different time, and it is, but I
Speaker 1: always appreciate you guys being right here with me to
Speaker 1: talk all about it, my Low Riders.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, you guys.
Speaker 1: Could be anywhere with anybody having conversations about these things
Speaker 1: with y'all tunes to be right in here with me,
Speaker 1: and I am.
Speaker 2: So appreciative of you guys for that, My Low Riders.
Speaker 2: I will see you in my next episode.