Speaker 1: Gee, I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about
Speaker 1: everything and everybody.
Speaker 2: You don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
Speaker 2: Lauren Kingan, y'all clap it up. We have made it.
Speaker 1: We are here at one hundred episodes of The Latest
Speaker 1: with Lauren L.
Speaker 2: Rosa.
Speaker 1: This is the podcast the daily Dig on all things entertainment,
Speaker 1: news exclusives, and all of the conversations that shake the room. Now,
Speaker 1: y'all have been tuned into y'all homegrowd that knows a
Speaker 1: bit about everything and everybody for one hundred episodes now.
Speaker 2: But I do want to do a little recap.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the first four episodes of
Speaker 1: The Latest with Lauren L.
Speaker 2: Rosa.
Speaker 1: Yes, we are here, welcome. This is the first episode.
Speaker 1: This is the inaugural episode. I think inaugura means first.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to know that, Yes, inaugural means first. This
Speaker 1: is the first episode of The Latest with Lauren the Rosa,
Speaker 1: which is a podcast where we are doing all the things. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to start this off by saying, for everybody
Speaker 1: that you know reached out and called me or text me,
Speaker 1: you know, I made a lot of new support system
Speaker 1: and community, just you know, through people dming me on
Speaker 1: Instagram and you know all that stuff, just checking in,
Speaker 1: making sure I was good, making sure Jess was good,
Speaker 1: making sure you know, we understood that. Like yo, y'all, like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a moment for y'all to really show the
Speaker 1: world with two black women on a major media platform
Speaker 1: who are going to be faced with, you know, obstacles
Speaker 1: and different things will still come after this, what y'all
Speaker 1: can do and how y'all can do it. For everybody
Speaker 1: who reached out sincerely and wasn't trying to get some
Speaker 1: information for a story or get a quote or just be.
Speaker 2: Messy, I appreciate y'all. I know that.
Speaker 1: Just appreciate you guys too, because for the first time
Speaker 1: ever in my life, I wasn't reaching out to break
Speaker 1: the story. I wasn't detailing the story. I wasn't regurgitating
Speaker 1: a story. I was a story. Nothing could have prepared
Speaker 1: me for that more than my relationship with God that
Speaker 1: I have right now. And I was raised in the church.
Speaker 1: I've always had a relationship with God. That's you know,
Speaker 1: my family and all of that, Like.
Speaker 2: That's just how I was raised.
Speaker 1: But I think when you're grown and you established that
Speaker 1: relationship yourself. It is so different and like a year
Speaker 1: ago when I decided to like get my apartment in
Speaker 1: New York and I was trying to figure everything out.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I did was I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna give my life to God again.
Speaker 2: Not gonna get emotional.
Speaker 1: It's a good emotion, though, y'all got me like be
Speaker 1: Simone up her crown on this podcast about God.
Speaker 2: Like what is happening right now. But when I did.
Speaker 1: That, though, I knew that it was a conscious decision,
Speaker 1: and I told myself, I taught myself then that I
Speaker 1: was like arming myself with everything that I was going
Speaker 1: to need to go to this like next level of
Speaker 1: things and God. When I tell y'all, I had no
Speaker 1: idea everything that was going to happen. And this is
Speaker 1: not about like the j just Instagram Live. I mean
Speaker 1: like everything. I just mean, like, you know, me being
Speaker 1: blessed with the opportunity to be at like I left
Speaker 1: a job. When you get on television as a personality,
Speaker 1: you don't take yourself off of TV. I don't care
Speaker 1: how imperfect that situation is, Babe. You figure it out
Speaker 1: and you make it work. And for me, you know,
Speaker 1: being at TMZ and being in LA and La is
Speaker 1: a number one market or you know, at least I
Speaker 1: could think things change, numbers change or whatever. I know,
Speaker 1: it's at least top five market. And you're on television
Speaker 1: and you're on prime time, your daytime talk show, and.
Speaker 2: No one really knew who I was.
Speaker 1: You know, people knew, but like people were it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: the girl from TMZ to leave that and go to
Speaker 1: a platform where like I was able and you guys
Speaker 1: were able to learn me get to know who I was,
Speaker 1: and you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean. I was just like, man, God
Speaker 2: is really moving in my life.
Speaker 1: When I got on the other side of that, and
Speaker 1: now the conversation that's shaking the room is about me.
Speaker 1: Following jessco on Live on Instagram, I was like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. My first reaction was like, what the fuck, Like,
Speaker 1: what's happening right now?
Speaker 2: Wait? What? And I just knew it was something because
Speaker 2: people just kept sending me to live, sending me live.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, either she's on there, because you know,
Speaker 1: like behind the scenes, I knew that like things weren't perfect.
Speaker 1: I knew she wasn't the most happiest person. But I
Speaker 1: think in my role, I can only speak for myself.
Speaker 1: I was trying to do as much as I could
Speaker 1: to make sure that things worked out well enough where
Speaker 1: she could at least show up and do her job comfortably.
Speaker 2: Some chears warming up in here. Hello guys, and welcome back.
Speaker 1: This is episode two of the Latest with Lauren le Rosa.
Speaker 1: So you know, since y'all don't pop my cherry already
Speaker 1: and we two, you know, I was gonna say two
Speaker 1: strokes in, but you know you can do two strokes
Speaker 1: on the first time. We two episodes in. Now we're
Speaker 1: warming up to each other. You know, it's feeling like home.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to hear all the feedback. Thank you for
Speaker 1: everybody that joined the live that I did when I
Speaker 1: went live with the Black Effect Podcast Network and told
Speaker 1: me that y'all have been watching the show or listening
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 2: I'm so used to being on TV.
Speaker 1: Listening to the show and you know, giving me some feedback. Today,
Speaker 1: I'm actually here. I have family here in my apartment
Speaker 1: as we are recording this. I have friends, My mom
Speaker 1: is here, y'all. See, my makeup is done. My makeup
Speaker 1: always be done. My makeup is done. My makeup is
Speaker 1: always done. Okay, the girls always giving. But today this
Speaker 1: is like special beat, special hair, because we are actually
Speaker 1: getting ready to head to the launch party for the podcast.
Speaker 1: It's a private launch party event that we're doing in
Speaker 1: New York, and I'm getting excited as the time goes on.
Speaker 1: It actually starts at eight o'clock, and it's about eight
Speaker 1: o'clock right now, but we still hear you gonna do this.
Speaker 1: Work comes first. But that's kind of like what the
Speaker 1: setting is. Episode three? All right, all right, hold on,
Speaker 1: I gotta cut in real quick. I know we recapping,
Speaker 1: but I gotta cut in and just let y'all know
Speaker 1: where my state of mind was within these like throwback episodes.
Speaker 1: By episode three of the Latest with Lauren La Rosa,
Speaker 1: I was literally running on fumes. I was not used
Speaker 1: to this daily regimen of you know, the daily podcast,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the video, doing the audio. I'm
Speaker 1: up late doing all the edits, doing a rundown for
Speaker 1: the breakfast club stuff. My family start tripping, like my mother,
Speaker 1: my grandmother, They like, yo, what's going on? We ain't
Speaker 1: hearing from you. Everything was moving so fast. Everything was
Speaker 1: exploding and I'm I mean, I'm grateful to God that
Speaker 1: it did, but oh my god, I couldn't talk about
Speaker 1: it then because I was like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: sound like I'm complaining, but even listening to my voice
Speaker 1: and listening to myself in these first probably the first
Speaker 1: five episodes of the podcast, and that's why I'm so
Speaker 1: happy that all this is like dot minute you can
Speaker 1: just hear, you know, the wear and tear of all
Speaker 1: the things, like you know, Breakfast Club was happening and
Speaker 1: people were excited to see me there and the podcast
Speaker 1: had just been announced and we were running with the
Speaker 1: first episodes. I don't think people talk about enough about how,
Speaker 1: you know, when elevation happens, Like we pray for good
Speaker 1: things to happen, we pray to elevate. You work hards,
Speaker 1: you're consistent. You know, I'm learning in real time, so
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, I'm failing in real time. Shoot, I
Speaker 1: sell them sometimes. But people don't talk about enough how
Speaker 1: just learning to adjust and unlearning what you knew on
Speaker 1: one level, to relearn and learn for the first time
Speaker 1: things on this you know, elevated level.
Speaker 2: How that like takes a toll on you.
Speaker 1: Mentally and physically while having to stay together in front
Speaker 1: of you know all everybody. So you know, as I'm
Speaker 1: I'm listening with y'all reflecting back on these episodes, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, man, you could literally.
Speaker 1: Hear and feel it. Wow, episode three? What is today?
Speaker 1: Today's too?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Yes, this is episode three? Okay, Yes, I'm tired, y'all,
Speaker 1: So let me know how y'all feel on Twitter on
Speaker 1: Instagram as you're listening to this and you tag me.
Speaker 1: But I feel like at this point, we are so
Speaker 1: exhausted by these Diddy civil lawsuits and all of the
Speaker 1: things in the sensational like the sensationalize of information that
Speaker 1: are putting these lawsuits to make them go, to make
Speaker 1: them pick up, to make them spread that now people
Speaker 1: don't even care as much. It's like, I mean it.
Speaker 1: And again, there may be people who were actually victimized
Speaker 1: in these ways by Diddy. There may be that is alleged.
Speaker 1: We don't know until it plays out in court on
Speaker 1: both the criminal and the civil side, whatever makes it
Speaker 1: the court, right, But it's just kind of crazy because
Speaker 1: I feel like it's like it literally feels like it
Speaker 1: like came and went.
Speaker 2: Like at one point in time.
Speaker 1: I know, for me as on a journale side, like
Speaker 1: you know, as I'm choosing stories to do on the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club or choosing stories to like you know, actively
Speaker 1: get new angles and report on and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: I'm always like you know, looking for like, Okay, what's new,
Speaker 1: what's happening, what's happening? But the Diddy stop to me. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh another one, bro, another one. Can
Speaker 1: we just skip to the point where he go to
Speaker 1: court so we can see what's true what's not? Hold up,
Speaker 1: I'm back again to pop on in I'm popping in
Speaker 1: the flashbacks. This was so funny to me when I
Speaker 1: relistened to this episode because I'm like, girl, if only
Speaker 1: you had known you was gonna be in court every
Speaker 1: day right with Diddy? And that was a big moment
Speaker 1: for us here on the podcast as well, because we
Speaker 1: covered every day that I was in court, what happened
Speaker 1: in court, on the latest with Along the Roads and
Speaker 1: all those episodes are there in full for you guys
Speaker 1: to go back and listen to if you need to
Speaker 1: catch up as well. But I listened to this and
Speaker 1: I literally laughed, like, girl, you was you couldn't wait
Speaker 1: for court. Come you were in court every day tied
Speaker 1: to tale sleet walking again. Okay, y'all, this is the
Speaker 1: latest with Laurya l Rosa. I am Laura la Rosa.
Speaker 1: This is episode four, So let's get on into some things.
Speaker 1: We're taking y'all to court. We were doing a little.
Speaker 2: Court you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: If there's a Dun Dunn Taylor put that on in here,
Speaker 1: I need that. Okay, it's given litigation right now. So
Speaker 1: the first thing I wanted to talk about wash Drake.
Speaker 1: You guys know that Drake has been going back and
Speaker 1: forth with Universal Music Group over the song not Like Us,
Speaker 1: even though he's positioning it and claiming that it's not
Speaker 1: specifically about the song, that it's more so about the
Speaker 1: fact that his label did not protect him and that
Speaker 1: they allowed another artist on the label, speaking of Kendrick
Speaker 1: Lamar to drop out like Us, which Drake and team
Speaker 1: say is a very defamatory song. It's dangerous and there's
Speaker 1: no way that this should have been supported. So now
Speaker 1: he is suing. Okay, the lassit. There's been a lot
Speaker 1: of back and forth, but more recently the Universal Music
Speaker 1: Group side of things said, you know what, Judge this
Speaker 1: all is bs, Drake, don't really he doesn't honestly think
Speaker 1: that we did half of.
Speaker 2: 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 songs 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 2: He's claiming everything. But the song is a bop, and baby,
Speaker 2: the song is a bop.
Speaker 1: So this next episode that you guys are about to
Speaker 1: hear from like the first couple weeks of the podcast,
Speaker 1: is really really special to me because my mom was
Speaker 1: one of the guests on the episodes, and I've always
Speaker 1: said I wanted to do like a sit down, like
Speaker 1: some sort of content with me, my mom, and my
Speaker 1: grandmom just because I feel like the generational conversations are
Speaker 1: good and there's you know, there's some things that aren't
Speaker 1: so good, but I think that, you know, it could
Speaker 1: help people to see us talk through it. So getting
Speaker 1: her on the podcast was fired. My mom loves to talk,
Speaker 1: she loves people, so she was more than excited to
Speaker 1: do it. But it was also special for me because
Speaker 1: you know when my mom, my mom is a stage
Speaker 1: four cancer survivor. If you guys have listened to my
Speaker 1: early episodes here on The Latest with Lona Rosa, I've
Speaker 1: talked about that.
Speaker 2: I believe, but my mom.
Speaker 1: I remember one time we had a conversation just about
Speaker 1: you know, my mom was just basically trying to comfort me.
Speaker 2: Early.
Speaker 1: She's like, look, we don't know how this is going
Speaker 1: to all work out, you know, with this cancer battle.
Speaker 1: We don't know what's going to happen. I'm not giving up.
Speaker 1: God has the last say so, but I just want
Speaker 1: you to know that, you know, everything I've been able
Speaker 1: to see you and your brother accomplished in life has
Speaker 1: fulfilled me. If I don't ever get to see anything else,
Speaker 1: I am fulfilled as a parent and that I know
Speaker 1: she was trying to comfort me, but it broke my
Speaker 1: heart because I'm like, man, it's so much to do
Speaker 1: still and this was years ago, so having her here
Speaker 1: on the podcast, and when I listened to this back
Speaker 1: to figure out whether I was going to put it
Speaker 1: here in this recap episode, I cried because I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: like everything she's gotten a witness from that moment, like
Speaker 1: two almost three years ago now two now. My mom
Speaker 1: was in New York for the launch of the podcast,
Speaker 1: and I got her to sit down with me on
Speaker 1: the podcast literally the day after launch.
Speaker 2: So take a listen. Okay, all you gotta clap it up.
Speaker 1: That's right, clap it up, clap it up, and the
Speaker 1: energy going up. What's up, y'all. It's Laura l Rosa.
Speaker 1: This is the Latest with Lauren la Rosa. Now this
Speaker 1: is your daily dig, your daily dish on everything in
Speaker 1: all conversations, pop culture and just you know, those conversations
Speaker 1: that shake the room. Now, I want to first of all,
Speaker 1: thank you guys for coming right on back here with me.
Speaker 1: Y'all know, I'm the homegrowd. It know. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit about everything and everybody. And today in the room,
Speaker 1: we been having a special guest a week, another special guest.
Speaker 1: I got the og who knows a little bit about
Speaker 1: every thing and everybody. My mom really is like complete
Speaker 1: opposite to me, though she's not her business.
Speaker 2: I don't. But my mom is here, Hey, mom, Yes, right,
Speaker 2: my mom lois is here.
Speaker 1: My family was in town because we did like a
Speaker 1: media kind of like meet and greet type of situation
Speaker 1: for the podcast in episode previous to this one. If
Speaker 1: you have not listened to that, please go and listen
Speaker 1: to it. It's a live conversation with me and Charlemagne
Speaker 1: just about you know, like where everything started from for me,
Speaker 1: where you know I'm at now and where I'm going
Speaker 1: and where I'm headed.
Speaker 2: So my family was in town for that.
Speaker 1: So my mom is still here and she came to
Speaker 1: film the podcast with me today. The way that we
Speaker 1: do it here, Mom, when we start off the podcast
Speaker 1: is we do a check in, So this is a
Speaker 1: grinding you know, behind the scenes of the grind check
Speaker 1: in where we just asked, how are you feeling good?
Speaker 3: Good? I'm feeling great. That was a good opening last night,
Speaker 3: really was really it's therapeic for me.
Speaker 2: Oh to hear me talk about everything. Yes, how do
Speaker 2: you feel when you like when.
Speaker 1: You're sitting in the audience and like you're hearing me
Speaker 1: talk about things that like you know, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: my mom and brought also too, you lived them a
Speaker 1: real life with me.
Speaker 3: That's right. That's what I was about to say, is
Speaker 3: it just is the real life. And I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Keep keeping it real, girl, yeh, keep it real. That's
Speaker 3: the way to do it. I congratulate you on that. No,
Speaker 3: go ahead, no, keep it real for you about you,
Speaker 3: and now let's get real about everything.
Speaker 1: About everything she said, were ready to get on into
Speaker 1: some topics now here is one of my absolute favorite
Speaker 1: podcast moments. So I got something really really special for
Speaker 1: all of my lowriders today. If you've ever seen the
Speaker 1: show Girlfriends. And I kind of feel like a little
Speaker 1: like a dug when I say that, because who hasn't
Speaker 1: seen the show Girlfriends? But if you e or have
Speaker 1: not seen the show Girlfriends, We're going to talk a
Speaker 1: lot about it today in this episode because we have
Speaker 1: a icon joining us, MS Golden Brooks, who played Maya
Speaker 1: on the show.
Speaker 2: A right, all right, good morning morning. Y'all are glowed
Speaker 2: up for learning and want a Sunday.
Speaker 1: All of y'all are given and all of y'all are glowing.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really excited to be here.
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, hi you guys. I'm Golden Brooks aka my
Speaker 4: Denise Wilks.
Speaker 2: Golden.
Speaker 1: This is kind of like another full circle woman for you,
Speaker 1: because you guys are the African American Museum in d C.
Speaker 4: We We were, We absolutely were. It's just it's you know,
Speaker 4: I think because Girlfriends was so iconic. I feel so
Speaker 4: old when I say that, I'm like iconic, But I
Speaker 4: think because it was one of the first shows that
Speaker 4: actually celebrated or you know, maur Buck to kill, you know,
Speaker 4: hats off to her showing black women doing yoga and
Speaker 4: eating sushi and wearing fly closed designer. I think that
Speaker 4: was the first time I ever heard about, you know,
Speaker 4: the well, not really the broken back because Sex and
Speaker 4: the City did it, but you had women of women
Speaker 4: of color wearing designer. You know.
Speaker 2: We talked about it, and.
Speaker 4: I just think that on so many levels it showcased
Speaker 4: us in a way that we hadn't seen ourselves and
Speaker 4: all of our flaws, you know, And I think that
Speaker 4: that's something that I think women of color it was.
Speaker 4: It opened up a whole new conversation piece on the
Speaker 4: black woman in TV and what that looks like.
Speaker 1: Make sure you go check out the full interview audio
Speaker 1: in full everywhere you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted a talk show, and I've always said
Speaker 1: that when I had a talk show, I wanted my
Speaker 1: audience to come along with me, to grow along with me,
Speaker 1: because y'all got to realize I'm doing this all in
Speaker 1: real time.
Speaker 2: I'm learning, I'm figuring it out. I am.
Speaker 1: You know, everything that you're seeing is happening in real time, y'all.
Speaker 1: It has been a journey. Oh my god, it has
Speaker 1: been such a journey. I appreciate all of my Lowriders,
Speaker 1: which are my podcast community. So whether you're watching or
Speaker 1: you're listening, you a Lowrider. Okay, yeah, I'm excited for us,
Speaker 1: so appreciative of you, guys. I really am. The Latest
Speaker 1: with Lorna Rosa. Like I said, it's a journey. It
Speaker 1: is a daily dig on all things pop culture to
Speaker 1: keep you guys updated, But it's a labor of love
Speaker 1: and a passion for me.
Speaker 2: I love to talk, as 'all can tell.
Speaker 1: I love to talk, but I also love just being
Speaker 1: able to come in here and figure it out with
Speaker 1: all of you guys, all of my low Rider community.
Speaker 2: So thank y'all for tuning in.
Speaker 1: Make sure you continue to tune in weekdays everywhere you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts.
Speaker 2: The Latest with Laura La Rosa.
Speaker 1: Tell a friend to tell a friend if they're not
Speaker 1: listening to me, I don't know what they even doing.
Speaker 1: I'm Laura the Rosa everywhere. I will see you guys
Speaker 1: in my next episode.