Latest / The Breakfast Club / From Miami Moves to Chris Brown Drama & Mom Talk
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The joys.
- 0:02Speaker 2: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
- 0:04Speaker 2: and everybody.
- 0:06Speaker 3: You know, if you don't lie about that?
- 0:07Speaker 1: Right, Hey, y'all, what's up.
- 0:10Speaker 2: It's Laura Rosa and this is another episode of the
- 0:14Speaker 2: Latest with Lauren de Rosa. This is your daily day
- 0:17Speaker 2: on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of
- 0:20Speaker 2: the conversations that shake the room.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Baby. Now we're gonna check in real.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Quick behind the scenes of the Grind.
- 0:31Speaker 1: And I am really really excited.
- 0:33Speaker 2: I am here in Miami experiencing the Accelerating Her conference
- 0:39Speaker 2: for the very first time ever, and I'm just really
- 0:42Speaker 2: happy that I decided to come. It almost didn't happen
- 0:45Speaker 2: because I thought, you know, I couldn't get out of
- 0:47Speaker 2: work this week, and just being out of a studio
- 0:50Speaker 2: and not being in the studio when it comes to
- 0:51Speaker 2: breakfast club, I try to prioritize that. And then all
- 0:55Speaker 2: of the you know, the rich aunties, the ogs called
- 0:57Speaker 2: me and was like, girl, what was wrong with you?
- 0:59Speaker 2: You need to be in this room. And I'm so
- 1:00Speaker 2: happy that I made it down here. I want to
- 1:03Speaker 2: be bringing you guys some audio from my experience here,
- 1:06Speaker 2: so stay tuned. But what I'm gathering thus far is
- 1:11Speaker 2: you know, the Global Leadership Conference, because it's not just
- 1:14Speaker 2: a gathering of all of the beautiful and most powerful
- 1:16Speaker 2: black women in the world.
- 1:18Speaker 1: It is a leadership conference. So you're learning.
- 1:20Speaker 2: What I'm learning is that as you walk into these
- 1:24Speaker 2: new rooms, it is very important to have tribe. And
- 1:27Speaker 2: your tribe can look like people that have been in
- 1:29Speaker 2: your life from the very beginning of your life, people
- 1:31Speaker 2: that you met along the way who were there before
- 1:33Speaker 2: a lot of the things that you're walking into, but
- 1:35Speaker 2: also people that you met who are doing more, doing
- 1:39Speaker 2: even the same as you, that you meet while you're
- 1:41Speaker 2: doing these things. People have so many conversations about women,
- 1:45Speaker 2: and you know, the competition with us, and they're only
- 1:47Speaker 2: being room for one and being lonely at the top,
- 1:49Speaker 2: and I'm meeting mad women down here who they're doing
- 1:52Speaker 2: it all. They got the family, they got the coin,
- 1:55Speaker 2: the investments, the big jobs, like they're eating it up.
- 1:59Speaker 2: So I am as fired and I'm gonna be talking
- 2:02Speaker 2: about this so you guys will be too.
- 2:04Speaker 1: So let's get on into the Latest now.
- 2:09Speaker 2: I have a special guest to hear with me on
- 2:12Speaker 2: the Latest today, and my special guest is here because
- 2:17Speaker 2: I talked about this on the Breakfast Club some days ago.
- 2:22Speaker 2: She is, you know, on the other side of this
- 2:25Speaker 2: Chris Brown Usher tour conversation. So we talked a bit
- 2:29Speaker 2: about Chris Brown responding to critics. Who has something to
- 2:33Speaker 2: say about people going out to support his tour? So
- 2:37Speaker 2: what he Here's what he had to say. The funniest
- 2:40Speaker 2: and weirdest shit ever to me is the fact that
- 2:43Speaker 2: people have option to come to my tour, in the
- 2:45Speaker 2: option not to. I know everyone who is a fan
- 2:48Speaker 2: of me and Usher will definitely be in a building
- 2:50Speaker 2: and it will be packed, just like last year. Then
- 2:54Speaker 2: he continues, but I'm scrolling through instant TikTok and I
- 2:58Speaker 2: come across rage bait pages or these fake woke stand
- 3:01Speaker 2: up for nothing pages bashing people for wanting to come
- 3:03Speaker 2: out and have a good time. The dudes hating, and
- 3:05Speaker 2: I can understand that, thinking we're gonna steal your girl.
- 3:08Speaker 2: But the Karens and the self feting holes be making
- 3:11Speaker 2: me laugh. I can't wait to rub this in y'all face.
- 3:14Speaker 2: And then he put three laughing emojis. Right now, this
- 3:18Speaker 2: tour is kicking off and the next month or so
- 3:20Speaker 2: they're headed to like it's like over thirty cities that
- 3:23Speaker 2: they're hitting it. I mean, and it's Chris Brown and Usher.
- 3:26Speaker 2: I have seen Chris Brown in performance and it's breathtaking.
- 3:30Speaker 2: And I've also seen Usher twice. I saw Usher at
- 3:33Speaker 2: the Vegas Residency, which was like, it was a I've
- 3:36Speaker 2: never experienced showmanship like that and just the way he
- 3:39Speaker 2: is on stage. And I also got to experience the
- 3:42Speaker 2: tour version of that show when he did his tour
- 3:44Speaker 2: and he was giving a cherryes and doing.
- 3:46Speaker 1: All the things.
- 3:47Speaker 2: Now, my guest on today's episode is not one of
- 3:49Speaker 2: the self hating holes that are on TikTok. She is
- 3:52Speaker 2: on the side of getting a little pushback because she's
- 3:55Speaker 2: going to the tour and she's a Chris Brown fan
- 3:58Speaker 2: and she got a me in Welcome to the episode,
- 4:02Speaker 2: our editor I talked about her all the time.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Miss Taylor made it. Oh y'all.
- 4:08Speaker 2: So first, okay, talk to them about you know where
- 4:11Speaker 2: you're going to see the tour and how long you've
- 4:13Speaker 2: been a Chris Brown fan, Chris Brown and Usher, just
- 4:15Speaker 2: Chris Brown, that you're a fan of both of them.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Okay, sure, Actually interesting enough. Usher, I think was like.
- 4:21Speaker 3: My first like celebrity crush as a kid. Really after
- 4:26Speaker 3: his song by wows wasn't there yet. I'm talking about
- 4:33Speaker 3: first hearing music like when I heard when I saw
- 4:35Speaker 3: him on my way, I was like, who is that?
- 4:38Speaker 3: I'm like, fucking, I don't know, maybe oh my maybe
- 4:42Speaker 3: eight or solf, I don't know either way.
- 4:45Speaker 1: And then I'm he's fan of Chris Brown, and I
- 4:49Speaker 1: just think.
- 4:49Speaker 3: He's super talented, and both of them actually super talented,
- 4:54Speaker 3: Like this is this is a tour I've been waiting
- 4:57Speaker 3: for because even when it came to them putting songs out,
- 5:01Speaker 3: I was like, why are they not putting more songs out?
- 5:03Speaker 3: So I'm super excited, So I'm doing I'm gonna see
- 5:07Speaker 3: them in New Orleans, me and my bestie, so I'm
- 5:12Speaker 3: looking forward to it.
- 5:13Speaker 1: Good food in a good concert.
- 5:16Speaker 2: So I know Bey is not the happiest about that,
- 5:21Speaker 2: And I mean, okay, So I was telling Taylor right,
- 5:23Speaker 2: like I know men because even Charlemagne and Envy they
- 5:26Speaker 2: be like our wives are not going to go see
- 5:28Speaker 2: Usher by themselves, like it's it's just not happening.
- 5:32Speaker 1: But it's I mean, I don't that's just married Joel.
- 5:38Speaker 3: And second too, like christ round don't want me either,
- 5:43Speaker 3: like every're gonna be for real.
- 5:45Speaker 1: But I also am not also that girl to be
- 5:47Speaker 1: like risk at all.
- 5:49Speaker 3: And it's kind of crazy if I did that, if
- 5:54Speaker 3: you think about it, like all the celebrities we meet
- 5:56Speaker 3: up here, and like it's kind of crazy. I wouldn't
- 5:59Speaker 3: do that, I think.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Okay, So here's what I was telling Taylor, right, like,
- 6:03Speaker 2: you know, as we're navigating the space, because and I
- 6:06Speaker 2: can't speak for a women who don't work in the industry,
- 6:09Speaker 2: I can only speak for on the other side, because
- 6:11Speaker 2: that's what we're experiencing. Like even though you're not typically
- 6:14Speaker 2: on the mic or typically in front of the camera,
- 6:16Speaker 2: you are in the industry.
- 6:17Speaker 1: You have been for some years. You work with really.
- 6:20Speaker 2: Notable and respected voices in everything that you do with
- 6:24Speaker 2: imaging in your own production company, right, so you can
- 6:27Speaker 2: pick up the phone and make some phone calls. So
- 6:29Speaker 2: I think for Bae, this is what I was telling her.
- 6:32Speaker 2: It's the thing of Okay, it's already a girl's trip,
- 6:35Speaker 2: and the guys be slick hating when it's a girl's trip.
- 6:38Speaker 2: Now you can't find your passport and you know, the
- 6:40Speaker 2: babysitter anonymously canceled because Baden been like, say, tell her,
- 6:46Speaker 2: you can't do it right.
- 6:47Speaker 1: All these things are.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Happening because he doesn't want you to go because it's
- 6:49Speaker 2: a girl's trip, right, But more so it's the thing
- 6:53Speaker 2: that you could pick up the phone and end up
- 6:55Speaker 2: backstage with the Usher, backstage with the Chris Brown. And
- 6:57Speaker 2: I know you, so I know, like that don't mean
- 6:59Speaker 2: nothing to you could care less. You see those people
- 7:01Speaker 2: all the time throughout the Breakfast Club. But I'm wondering
- 7:05Speaker 2: how many people are also going through this in real life,
- 7:07Speaker 2: because when Chris Brown put that, I thought that part
- 7:09Speaker 2: of it was like that was.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Like the joking part of it.
- 7:12Speaker 2: Yeah, I know people that are upset that people want
- 7:15Speaker 2: to support Chris Brown because people still think that he
- 7:17Speaker 2: should live in all of the consequence of you know,
- 7:21Speaker 2: the issues with Rihanna from some time ago, and then
- 7:24Speaker 2: you know.
- 7:25Speaker 1: The things with Crew Chie and all of that.
- 7:26Speaker 2: But you know, so any even female artists when they
- 7:30Speaker 2: do songs with Usher, I mean Usher, when they do
- 7:32Speaker 2: songs with Chris Brown, or when they stand up for him.
- 7:35Speaker 2: I remember Kelly Rowland had that moment where she, you know,
- 7:37Speaker 2: stood up for him at the I believe it was
- 7:39Speaker 2: the BT Awards. Yeah, they get pushed back. It is
- 7:43Speaker 2: a thing, but I didn't know in real life. It's
- 7:46Speaker 2: a thing of guys being like, oh no, you're not
- 7:48Speaker 2: gonna you.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Know, it's crazy. He came with me to this year.
- 7:52Speaker 1: He's with you.
- 7:53Speaker 3: It's different because not on it's not just about Chris
- 7:57Speaker 3: Brown Usher and it's Tailor gonna like go be a
- 8:01Speaker 3: groupie and we know you're not gonna do that. But
- 8:03Speaker 3: it's also like, I feel like men go to those
- 8:06Speaker 3: type of concerts too, looking for women who are there
- 8:08Speaker 3: that are by themselves, that are single, because I mean dumb.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Yeah, but if I'm a.
- 8:13Speaker 3: Man, don't think women aren't paying Even if guys are
- 8:17Speaker 3: coming like that, I don't feel like that women aren't
- 8:19Speaker 3: paying them any mind, at least I want it if
- 8:22Speaker 3: I was single, Like, I'm like, okay, you you like
- 8:26Speaker 3: Chris roun Usher too.
- 8:28Speaker 1: I'm not looking at them like trying to holler at all.
- 8:31Speaker 2: I understand it, But I also I understand his side,
- 8:35Speaker 2: not to the point where like you should feel like
- 8:37Speaker 2: you shouldn't go you also, I mean, both of y'all
- 8:39Speaker 2: just recently had a baby. But the baby came out
- 8:41Speaker 2: of your whole body hate. You deserve a little break,
- 8:43Speaker 2: he break. I brought my guests on today, guys, because
- 8:47Speaker 2: y'all know I'm always getting, you know, close to the source,
- 8:50Speaker 2: close to the problem, and close to the exclusive. I
- 8:52Speaker 2: wanted you guys sit here in real time. The girls
- 8:55Speaker 2: are out here getting the pushback about going to go
- 8:57Speaker 2: see Chris Breeze and Usher because.
- 8:59Speaker 1: The blue the booze a little upset. I didn't.
- 9:01Speaker 2: I didn't know it was real, especially because you'd be
- 9:04Speaker 2: having women at Usher's concert who were there with their
- 9:08Speaker 2: men doing the whole cherry challenge.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Yeah, would allow that.
- 9:14Speaker 2: I know one I was about to say, I know
- 9:15Speaker 2: one thing. If I should even blink your way with
- 9:18Speaker 2: a cherry and girl during the cherry part, put your
- 9:23Speaker 2: drink down, sober up a bit, don't try, don't. I
- 9:26Speaker 2: used to always tell my mom, Oh my god, older
- 9:28Speaker 2: people are so stubborn.
- 9:29Speaker 1: They just do things they're not supposed to do.
- 9:31Speaker 2: I used to tell my mom when she was like
- 9:32Speaker 2: kind of like a bed rest and she would be
- 9:34Speaker 2: trying to do stuff when I rob was leaving the house,
- 9:35Speaker 2: I'd be like, please, no, gymnastics, don't don't be out
- 9:38Speaker 2: here trying things. Not today, Taylor, when you go to
- 9:41Speaker 2: that no gymnastics, Okay, I.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Wanted I don't know where. I don't think my seats are
- 9:46Speaker 1: like right in front for even that.
- 9:49Speaker 2: See, but even I could change one mention or one
- 9:52Speaker 2: old usher's coming here, you know, to breakfast club, or
- 9:56Speaker 2: I said here this this is not breakfast club, but
- 9:58Speaker 2: ushers coming to the breakfast to promote, and then we all,
- 10:01Speaker 2: you know, are having conversations and it's like, that's that's
- 10:03Speaker 2: normally sometimes how like we end up even going to
- 10:06Speaker 2: the shows, it's like once we over on the breakfast
- 10:08Speaker 2: club side, or even here with the podcast sometimes too,
- 10:10Speaker 2: like when I'm in contact with an artist's team that
- 10:13Speaker 2: is interested in me, like you know.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Interviewing the artists or whatever.
- 10:16Speaker 2: A lot of times I'm like, if you want me
- 10:18Speaker 2: to talk about something, I like, I don't just say
- 10:21Speaker 2: yes because artists is a celebrity. A lot of times,
- 10:24Speaker 2: especially with the latest with Lauren the Roads of the podcast,
- 10:26Speaker 2: I like taking you guys into the real like come
- 10:30Speaker 2: with me to the concert. So I'm bringing y'all back
- 10:32Speaker 2: audio from the concert. I'm doing all the things. Yeah,
- 10:35Speaker 2: so they they look out they make sure that the
- 10:37Speaker 2: tickets are right and all that, cause they know that
- 10:39Speaker 2: that's a part of the experience that I delivered to
- 10:40Speaker 2: my audience. And you're a part of building audience here
- 10:42Speaker 2: on the podcast at Breakfast Club. So you know, you
- 10:45Speaker 2: never know what this seats may end up being.
- 10:47Speaker 1: But listen, my baby has nothing to worry about. You're
- 10:50Speaker 1: allergic to charings. You heard that. I am like, I
- 10:53Speaker 1: really don't like them. You heard that, right, right right?
- 10:57Speaker 2: Well, I mean speaking of the Bay the family in
- 11:00Speaker 2: all of the news. So Taylor recently became a mom baby,
- 11:05Speaker 2: Patrick Junior. It's how old? Now, like nine months? I
- 11:08Speaker 2: was gonna say eight. I wasn't too far all. So
- 11:11Speaker 2: I saw this post with Serena and Williams that I
- 11:13Speaker 2: wanted to do here in the podcast. But I'm like,
- 11:15Speaker 2: this isn't something I could do by myself because I'm
- 11:17Speaker 2: not a parent yet, but I do have some feelings.
- 11:20Speaker 2: So Serena Williams got on X and she has her
- 11:23Speaker 2: daughter with her husband Alexis, and she said, I told
- 11:27Speaker 2: my daughter to go to bed. She did not, Therefore
- 11:29Speaker 2: she missed out on her sleepover.
- 11:32Speaker 1: She cried.
- 11:33Speaker 2: But what she did not know is I cried harder.
- 11:35Speaker 2: I hate when she cries and she put a broken
- 11:37Speaker 2: heart emoji. Discipline sucks, but sometimes it's important.
- 11:42Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true.
- 11:44Speaker 3: I mean, my son's not there yet. I kind of
- 11:46Speaker 3: know how old her daughter is. Let me look it up, but.
- 11:51Speaker 1: I don't know though.
- 11:52Speaker 3: It depends what I'm disciplining, Like for me to cry,
- 11:56Speaker 3: get they're sad or whatever. It will have to depend
- 12:01Speaker 3: on something, because if there's something they did, I'm mad
- 12:04Speaker 3: and I don't care about your feelings, like go to
- 12:07Speaker 3: bed crying.
- 12:09Speaker 2: Serena has two daughters, but I believe she's talking about her. Yeah,
- 12:15Speaker 2: when did that happen?
- 12:17Speaker 3: It was just one?
- 12:18Speaker 2: I thought it was one two for some Why do
- 12:20Speaker 2: I Why do I only remember? I feel like because
- 12:23Speaker 2: I feel like her first daughter, who's now eight years old.
- 12:26Speaker 2: We were we were so heavily invested because it was like,
- 12:29Speaker 2: oh my god, Serena Williams is having a baby. But yeah,
- 12:32Speaker 2: so her first daughter is eight years old. Uh, that
- 12:37Speaker 2: is Olympia and then her younger daughter are dearra Adeira
- 12:44Speaker 2: was born in August of twenty twenty three.
- 12:45Speaker 1: She is two years old.
- 12:47Speaker 2: So from the photo that they put on this blog,
- 12:51Speaker 2: it's a photo of her and her younger daughter. Some
- 12:53Speaker 2: as soon she talking about a younger daughter, but both
- 12:54Speaker 2: of them are young. I so here's my thought, and
- 12:58Speaker 2: I see little Mo, see her Little Mo. In the
- 13:00Speaker 2: comments of this post, they posted this over at neighbor.
- 13:04Speaker 2: They posted this over on Hollywood Unlocked. So in the
- 13:07Speaker 2: comments of the post on Hollywood on locks Instagram, little
- 13:10Speaker 2: Mo says, girl, you from Compton, Since when you start
- 13:12Speaker 2: crying over discipline, knock it off, y'all still black, Tell
- 13:16Speaker 2: that baby go to bed and get some rest, and
- 13:17Speaker 2: you go lay down too. I sold my first instinct
- 13:22Speaker 2: when I read it, I'm like, Serena Williams got soft
- 13:25Speaker 2: on us, like what you crying because she can't make
- 13:29Speaker 2: her sleepover?
- 13:30Speaker 1: And then I was like.
- 13:32Speaker 3: Wait, I don't get it though. Why she couldn't make
- 13:34Speaker 3: her sleep over because she didn't go to bed.
- 13:36Speaker 2: I think that was her punishment, and I figured, okay,
- 13:39Speaker 2: So she says, I told my daughter to go to bed,
- 13:40Speaker 2: she did not, therefore she missed out on her sleepover.
- 13:43Speaker 2: So and so she puned like basically for not listening
- 13:45Speaker 2: to her. She didn't allow her to go to the sleepover.
- 13:48Speaker 1: Right, And when I read a little most comment.
- 13:52Speaker 2: I'm like, that was kind of my first thought because
- 13:54Speaker 2: I'm like, listen, my old school before Serena Williams is
- 13:57Speaker 2: forty four years old, my mom, my aunts, even my
- 14:02Speaker 2: older cousins, like I have older cousins that because my
- 14:04Speaker 2: mom's a lot older than Serena, but my older cousins,
- 14:08Speaker 2: who I call aunts, they're like Serena Williams age, so
- 14:10Speaker 2: like forty five, forty six fifty, they still would be
- 14:14Speaker 2: in some behind, I'm sure because they still come.
- 14:17Speaker 1: From that generation.
- 14:17Speaker 2: I feel like our generation of parent and depending on
- 14:20Speaker 2: because I know Envy and Charlemagne, like I've heard people
- 14:23Speaker 2: talk about like not beating their kid, but I feel
- 14:26Speaker 2: like our generation of kids, I mean our generation.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Of parent they don't.
- 14:30Speaker 2: We don't put our hands on our kids, like yeah,
- 14:34Speaker 2: they and that's what little more want Serena to get busy.
- 14:38Speaker 3: I wanna be honest with you, I'm gonna get busy
- 14:40Speaker 3: with my son. Well, I'm gonna let the father hand
- 14:43Speaker 3: dole that more so when he's out of line.
- 14:46Speaker 2: But I don't even know if I try to. I
- 14:48Speaker 2: tried to raise my voice at my niece one time,
- 14:49Speaker 2: and I couldn't. I couldn't find bailing myself to do it.
- 14:52Speaker 3: I But this is the thing though, with my my parents,
- 14:56Speaker 3: like I was a like to yell at me, I'm
- 14:59Speaker 3: gonna start crying, Like I did not like being young.
- 15:02Speaker 3: Once they did that to me, they got me like,
- 15:04Speaker 3: all right, I was the drama.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Like I feel like me and my mom gave my
- 15:09Speaker 2: brother a run for her money, but at different times
- 15:11Speaker 2: in our life. Like I think when I was younger,
- 15:13Speaker 2: I was a little bit more mischievous just in the household,
- 15:16Speaker 2: but I was always the one that was good outside.
- 15:18Speaker 2: So like school stuff, like my mom never really ever
- 15:21Speaker 2: had to come to the school and all that. My brother, yes,
- 15:24Speaker 2: complete opposite what people didn't even believe. We went to
- 15:27Speaker 2: the same high school.
- 15:28Speaker 1: I remember.
- 15:28Speaker 2: People always used to be like, it's no way all
- 15:30Speaker 2: grew up in the same household because he was just
- 15:33Speaker 2: so different than me. My mom would be at the
- 15:35Speaker 2: school all the time. His dad would have to come
- 15:37Speaker 2: to school all the time. And you know, my mom,
- 15:40Speaker 2: I got we got beatens, like up until a certain
- 15:42Speaker 2: age where like she couldn't anymore.
- 15:44Speaker 1: But here's an example.
- 15:46Speaker 2: I was watching the Michael Jackson movie and in the
- 15:49Speaker 2: movie there's a scene where Michael Jackson gets beat with
- 15:52Speaker 2: a belt, and I remember in my mind, I was like, dang,
- 15:56Speaker 2: I haven't heard nobody talk about beating her kid with
- 15:57Speaker 2: a belt in so long, Like it's just not a
- 15:59Speaker 2: normal thing anymore.
- 16:00Speaker 1: But when I was young, that was so normal.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I was thinking about how I felt
- 16:05Speaker 2: watching it. I felt like, oh my god, no stopping him.
- 16:09Speaker 2: She's a little baby while you're hitting him. But when
- 16:11Speaker 2: I was growing up, it was so normal. So now
- 16:14Speaker 2: that I think the times have changed, it's not about
- 16:17Speaker 2: she don't know she's black. The times have just changed,
- 16:19Speaker 2: like we've been conditioning a lot differently now and been
- 16:22Speaker 2: allowed to because I mean, Serena Williams is a very
- 16:25Speaker 2: much softer life, and of course so to her daughters,
- 16:28Speaker 2: like but I.
- 16:29Speaker 3: Think when it comes to certain like I know for
- 16:31Speaker 3: my cousin, like she was just ended up takingself away
- 16:35Speaker 3: from her son and would see that that would that
- 16:39Speaker 3: would hurt him a lot more than a beaten in
- 16:41Speaker 3: a sense. Like my mom. I remember she told me
- 16:45Speaker 3: that when my brother's acting up in school, my mom
- 16:48Speaker 3: went to all his classes and just stood in the back.
- 16:51Speaker 3: And that's like this embarrassment for him, so like finding
- 16:54Speaker 3: other tac dates to just like try me again. And
- 16:58Speaker 3: I think I think that's helped. I don't think being
- 17:01Speaker 3: necessarily it's always the right answer either, But.
- 17:06Speaker 2: I always think about like when I have kids, and
- 17:09Speaker 2: I'm excited to bring kids into a world that will
- 17:13Speaker 2: be a bit soft and will allowed the big kid.
- 17:15Speaker 1: My mom did a really good job of no.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Matter what the circumstance was, Like I had a great childhood,
- 17:23Speaker 2: like even great like high school all of that. Like
- 17:26Speaker 2: even when we were dealing with things, my mom made
- 17:28Speaker 2: sure like we were. We had a really great upbringing,
- 17:30Speaker 2: surrounded by family, love, all of that. But I still
- 17:35Speaker 2: got to see, like, Okay, I bet I gotta work
- 17:38Speaker 2: because my mom needs some help. I'm growing up in
- 17:40Speaker 2: the city for real, you know what I mean. Like
- 17:42Speaker 2: we always were lucky. We didn't have to move houses.
- 17:44Speaker 2: My mom owned her house.
- 17:45Speaker 1: But I like I remember being young and having.
- 17:49Speaker 2: Friends who moved houses like a lot within a year,
- 17:52Speaker 2: and it was because their mom was trying to figure
- 17:54Speaker 2: out affording things. And I used always ask my mom,
- 17:56Speaker 2: why don't we get to move I don't want to
- 17:58Speaker 2: move it because you know, like as a kid, you're like, oh,
- 18:00Speaker 2: my God, a new house, and now that I'm grown,
- 18:02Speaker 2: I'm like, oh no, my mom provided a sense of
- 18:04Speaker 2: stability for me when a lot of moms who were
- 18:06Speaker 2: in our neighborhood can figure that out, and she was doing.
- 18:08Speaker 1: It by herself.
- 18:10Speaker 2: So I just think about, you know, what my child's
- 18:12Speaker 2: upbringing is going to be like and how different it'll be,
- 18:14Speaker 2: even though mine's was great than mine.
- 18:16Speaker 1: But I also just want to make sure my.
- 18:18Speaker 2: Child is like aware of what of what's real and
- 18:21Speaker 2: what's really happening in the world. Like I see sometimes
- 18:24Speaker 2: with kids and you know, our generation and raising kids,
- 18:27Speaker 2: and I have friends that are raising them, and I'm like,
- 18:29Speaker 2: these kids are growing up in like delusion and it's
- 18:32Speaker 2: beautiful on one instance to see a black kid, you know,
- 18:35Speaker 2: have a soft life and you know, all of that,
- 18:38Speaker 2: and I love to see it. But then on the
- 18:40Speaker 2: other hand, it makes me worry. I'm like, when these
- 18:42Speaker 2: kids get in the world for real, like anything gonna
- 18:44Speaker 2: break them.
- 18:45Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I would say, like so for how my
- 18:48Speaker 3: parents raised me, Like I was raising the suburbs, but
- 18:53Speaker 3: my dad always made it a point like for me
- 18:55Speaker 3: to also visit my cousins that were somewhere in the hood,
- 19:00Speaker 3: just so I could get different backgrounds and understanding of
- 19:03Speaker 3: I used to be.
- 19:04Speaker 1: That was in the hood.
- 19:05Speaker 2: But we had a good we had a good career,
- 19:06Speaker 2: we had a good setup. But like I remember, some
- 19:07Speaker 2: of my cousin's not even been allowed to spend the
- 19:09Speaker 2: night at my house just because their moms didn't like
- 19:12Speaker 2: them being in the city, like you know what I mean,
- 19:14Speaker 2: and then going to their house and even though they
- 19:16Speaker 2: didn't live in the biggest houses and like they their
- 19:19Speaker 2: minds weren't rich, they just didn't live in the city.
- 19:20Speaker 1: So it was a little different.
- 19:23Speaker 3: But I don't I would say, like ill from Philly
- 19:28Speaker 3: versus the suburbs.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I mean it's kind of like that with
- 19:33Speaker 2: with if you're from Delaware, anybody listening, it's like Wilmington,
- 19:37Speaker 2: where I grew up, would be like living in Philly,
- 19:40Speaker 2: and certain parts is like it's like so I would say,
- 19:44Speaker 2: certain parts are like how y'all got North Philly, South Philly,
- 19:46Speaker 2: West Philly. So it's certain parts of the city that
- 19:49Speaker 2: like you can find okay neighborhoods, okay blocks, But then
- 19:52Speaker 2: it's certain parts where you like, yo, like in the
- 19:54Speaker 2: block that I grew up on, so it's a cross street.
- 19:58Speaker 2: The cross street was cool because it always led to
- 20:00Speaker 2: the highway. So the businesses is there, the bigger homes
- 20:02Speaker 2: are there. That's where I lived. At the street going
- 20:06Speaker 2: the other side of my house, that's where you know,
- 20:09Speaker 2: everybody was on to come hang out.
- 20:11Speaker 1: You didn't want to be down there. They was shooting,
- 20:12Speaker 1: like you know, Like so it's weird.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Like I had such a duel upbringing in my grandmother,
- 20:17Speaker 2: like her block, you don't want to be over there.
- 20:20Speaker 2: Till to this day, I'd be like my grandma loves
- 20:23Speaker 2: sitting on her porch. I'll be like, mo, Mom, it's
- 20:24Speaker 2: the summertime. It's too much going on on here. But
- 20:26Speaker 2: everybody in the neighborhood nowhere, you know what I mean.
- 20:28Speaker 2: But like so I really And then outside of my
- 20:32Speaker 2: home upbringing, I had again a lot of families. So
- 20:35Speaker 2: I'm going to visit them and they're living in the suburbs.
- 20:37Speaker 2: My mom is sending us, you know, to my I
- 20:39Speaker 2: had family living in la At one point we got
- 20:41Speaker 2: to go there.
- 20:42Speaker 1: For the summer.
- 20:42Speaker 2: Like my mom made sure we got the experience of everything,
- 20:45Speaker 2: and she was very real and very honest with us,
- 20:47Speaker 2: and she disciplined us in a way where it was
- 20:49Speaker 2: like you understood consequence, you know, even though we tried it.
- 20:53Speaker 2: We tried my mom, like when we got older, we
- 20:55Speaker 2: tried it. But I just I don't know. When I
- 20:57Speaker 2: see things like what Serena Williams is posting, it's like
- 20:59Speaker 2: I feel for her, and I'm not nowhere near as
- 21:02Speaker 2: successful as her, so I can't imagine the bubble she
- 21:04Speaker 2: herself lives in there, right, and then.
- 21:06Speaker 1: You're raising kids in that.
- 21:08Speaker 2: But I also it's like I'm always trying to figure
- 21:10Speaker 2: out from my parent friends. That's why I'm glad you're
- 21:13Speaker 2: here on the show today, Like what is that balance?
- 21:16Speaker 2: And how do you realistically have that balance? Because even
- 21:19Speaker 2: if you're not a celebrity, right, I have friends that
- 21:22Speaker 2: are just doing well for themselves and jobs outside of entertainment,
- 21:26Speaker 2: and their children are living different lives than they grew
- 21:28Speaker 2: up in. How do you keep the balance.
- 21:31Speaker 3: I think it's always to have a conversation and showing
- 21:35Speaker 3: them too. Though, like I said, like with my dad,
- 21:37Speaker 3: he made sure to like just show me different. I
- 21:41Speaker 3: I don't want to say it like that, but like
- 21:42Speaker 3: I would visit my cousins and they lived I don't
- 21:46Speaker 3: say lived different life, but their surroundings weren't my surroundings
- 21:49Speaker 3: in a sense, right, Like I grew up in all.
- 21:53Speaker 1: White schools, all that stuff, but.
- 21:57Speaker 3: I hung around my cousins enough to get I feel
- 22:00Speaker 3: like a little a little spunk if anything, or just
- 22:05Speaker 3: like I don't know, like but when it comes to discipline,
- 22:09Speaker 3: though I don't think my well, my dad says that
- 22:14Speaker 3: I didn't get disciplined enough because I could be breaths
- 22:17Speaker 3: sometimes that's fine.
- 22:18Speaker 2: I think you're so well behaved, but you might have
- 22:21Speaker 2: differently around your mommy and dad.
- 22:22Speaker 1: Though you spoil it is what spoiled. Yeah, I was
- 22:25Speaker 1: spoiled too.
- 22:25Speaker 2: I feel like me and my brother, even though my
- 22:27Speaker 2: brother will argue so different, I feel like we were
- 22:30Speaker 2: spoiled too.
- 22:30Speaker 3: I remember one time I was supposed to like she
- 22:33Speaker 3: wanted me to full launching. I think I was just
- 22:36Speaker 3: stressed out over something as throwing the fucking clothes and
- 22:40Speaker 3: I got grounded and that was it. Like I didn't
- 22:45Speaker 3: they just I just couldn't go anywhere.
- 22:47Speaker 1: Nah you I was.
- 22:48Speaker 2: I was a bit much like when I got a car,
- 22:51Speaker 2: got a little boyfriend, started feeling myself like me and
- 22:54Speaker 2: my mom used to have it like I was. I was,
- 22:56Speaker 2: I was disrespectful, like it was bad, Like yes me.
- 23:00Speaker 3: I'm gonna hear your disrespectful because I got caught.
- 23:03Speaker 1: I stuck at the house, and.
- 23:06Speaker 3: I my parents took my phone away, like I couldn't
- 23:11Speaker 3: have my phone like at nighttime, but I had it
- 23:13Speaker 3: like during the day going to school, but I couldn't
- 23:16Speaker 3: go nowhere, and they just were trying to keep as
- 23:19Speaker 3: much tabs on me as possible. But I was seventeen
- 23:21Speaker 3: at that time too though, so I was about to
- 23:24Speaker 3: be on my way to college.
- 23:25Speaker 1: So it was.
- 23:26Speaker 2: Around that time for me too. It was like sixteen seventeen,
- 23:30Speaker 2: like me and my mom just weren't seeing how to
- 23:31Speaker 2: eye me. I also do though, you know what I
- 23:35Speaker 2: always think about with like moms, especially like black women
- 23:38Speaker 2: and their moms. My mom really didn't know how to
- 23:42Speaker 2: be a mom a little like she was a great mom,
- 23:45Speaker 2: but because I'm not gonna say she didn't know how
- 23:47Speaker 2: to be a mom, but she went through a lot
- 23:49Speaker 2: of and still has a lot of trauma from her
- 23:51Speaker 2: relationship with her mom. And I feel like because of that,
- 23:55Speaker 2: I feel like I got the brunt of that A
- 23:56Speaker 2: lot of times from my mom, like in the way
- 23:59Speaker 2: that she would speak to me, the way that she
- 24:00Speaker 2: would react to certain things. It's like, on one end,
- 24:03Speaker 2: she was super loving, great mom, but on the other end,
- 24:06Speaker 2: it's like she didn't know how to be a mother
- 24:10Speaker 2: without the chaos and without inflicting certain things that I
- 24:13Speaker 2: used to always be like that's not needed. And the
- 24:16Speaker 2: older I got and the more I was doing on
- 24:18Speaker 2: my own, I was like, I'm not taking this. So
- 24:20Speaker 2: that's where we bumped heeds at a lot and I
- 24:23Speaker 2: was in and it got, you know, a bit dish,
- 24:25Speaker 2: like we used to argue like two people that didn't
- 24:27Speaker 2: know each other on the street, like it was bad,
- 24:29Speaker 2: Like it was it was very disrespectful. And when I
- 24:32Speaker 2: went to college, not even like my first year, I
- 24:34Speaker 2: think it was maybe toward the end of my first year,
- 24:36Speaker 2: my second year of college, I remember just something just
- 24:38Speaker 2: flipped for me, and it just made me appreciate my
- 24:40Speaker 2: mom so much more, like even yeah, girls fund yeah,
- 24:46Speaker 2: Like even though me and my grandmother have always been close,
- 24:48Speaker 2: me and my grandmother have always been friends, and I
- 24:49Speaker 2: feel like my grandmother treated me like how she should
- 24:52Speaker 2: have treated my mom. So how she parented me was
- 24:55Speaker 2: what my mom didn't get. So I got the back
- 24:58Speaker 2: end of that from my mom. But my grandma are
- 25:00Speaker 2: made up for that because she came in and was
- 25:02Speaker 2: trying to like make up for what she didn't do
- 25:03Speaker 2: with my mom, gotcha. But yeah, when I got to college,
- 25:07Speaker 2: it flipped and it was still not the best, but
- 25:08Speaker 2: it flipped. But when my mom went through like her
- 25:10Speaker 2: cancer journey, and like we spent and I think that
- 25:13Speaker 2: was probably like in my adult life, the most amount
- 25:15Speaker 2: of time we spent together. Because I'm not you know,
- 25:17Speaker 2: in your adult life you don't realize it, but like
- 25:19Speaker 2: you work in you living your own life, y'all spend
- 25:21Speaker 2: a time together as family, but it's not the same.
- 25:23Speaker 2: During that year, I was like it was just me
- 25:25Speaker 2: and her. So that made it to a point where
- 25:27Speaker 2: like I kind of understood her a little bit different.
- 25:29Speaker 2: I think I got to really see my mom as
- 25:31Speaker 2: like a person for the first time versus my mom.
- 25:35Speaker 3: I'm seeing that now with my mom like I always
- 25:38Speaker 3: saw it. Like my mom definitely was always a mom
- 25:42Speaker 3: to me, Like she never was like one of my
- 25:44Speaker 3: little friends, nothing like that. She even still now. I
- 25:50Speaker 3: think my mom though, has a hard time, uh just
- 25:57Speaker 3: talking to me and relating to me in a sense,
- 25:59Speaker 3: I have to get her like drunk to like really.
- 26:02Speaker 1: Chill out.
- 26:03Speaker 2: See my mom drinks. My mom my brother are smokers.
- 26:05Speaker 2: My mom don't drink my mom, but my mom could
- 26:07Speaker 2: be so.
- 26:08Speaker 3: But she gets to be tense sometimes, like she just
- 26:10Speaker 3: needs to relax. But you know, I still work in progress.
- 26:16Speaker 3: Me and my mom are much better than like you
- 26:18Speaker 3: were saying, Like in high school, me and her, like
- 26:20Speaker 3: my mom still looks as a rebellious child because I'm older,
- 26:24Speaker 3: I have an older daughter.
- 26:25Speaker 1: I feel like my brother is the youngest. I'm the youngest.
- 26:28Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, the youngest always get that. I feel like
- 26:30Speaker 2: my brother got that. I'm not the rebellious. I think
- 26:32Speaker 2: I'm the one that kind of I mean like I'm
- 26:34Speaker 2: the one that, like my mom, my mom. My mom
- 26:37Speaker 2: called my brother for a lot too. I would say,
- 26:38Speaker 2: like I'm the I'm the one that like, even though
- 26:41Speaker 2: I didn't do everything right, I'm the one that did
- 26:43Speaker 2: everything right, you know what I mean, Like I went
- 26:45Speaker 2: to college like all that stuff. My brother gets the
- 26:48Speaker 2: like rebellious do things his own way. But I will say,
- 26:52Speaker 2: like one of the things that I appreciated appreciate about
- 26:55Speaker 2: the fact that like me and my brother are very
- 26:57Speaker 2: opposite people. Is that I when they get really really crazy,
- 27:01Speaker 2: he is so much better at like just keeping his
- 27:03Speaker 2: cool and knowing it's going to work out and kind
- 27:05Speaker 2: of being that type of strength. I'm the type of
- 27:07Speaker 2: STREFD where like I'm a freak out, but like I'm
- 27:09Speaker 2: a figure it out. He might not figure it out
- 27:11Speaker 2: all the way through, but he knows it's going to
- 27:12Speaker 2: work out. So I've learned to like appreciate our opposites
- 27:16Speaker 2: a lot, especially in crazy moments where like no one
- 27:18Speaker 2: would understand but him, Like when my mom was going
- 27:20Speaker 2: through all that with her cancer journey, it was like
- 27:24Speaker 2: me and my brother kind of got a bit closer
- 27:25Speaker 2: in that because no one understood what we were feeling
- 27:27Speaker 2: but us because it's our mom, you know what I mean.
- 27:30Speaker 2: So that kind of changed the dynamic, and it made
- 27:33Speaker 2: me appreciate how even though we used to find it
- 27:37Speaker 2: like it used to be such an issue, like he
- 27:39Speaker 2: would be like Lauren spoiled, and y'all care more about
- 27:41Speaker 2: what she does and blah blah, and I'll be like,
- 27:43Speaker 2: they give you more leniency, they let you, like what
- 27:46Speaker 2: my mom was charging me rent when I was seeing
- 27:48Speaker 2: in her house you get to live there for free
- 27:50Speaker 2: and all this stuff. Like I appreciate those differences. I
- 27:52Speaker 2: feel like it raised us where like we got to
- 27:54Speaker 2: complete each other. So like I mean, she beat us
- 27:58Speaker 2: the same though.
- 28:01Speaker 3: I think it balance helps, Like even when it comes
- 28:03Speaker 3: to this my mom and dad, Like my dad's a
- 28:06Speaker 3: way more chilled, chilled partner than my mom is, Like
- 28:12Speaker 3: like she's learned that, I feel, like to calm herself. Yeah, certain,
- 28:17Speaker 3: just from experiences and stuff. But like like when my
- 28:23Speaker 3: grandma was, you know, seeing her last goodbyes, my mom
- 28:25Speaker 3: was super calm, Like then what And I guess, so
- 28:29Speaker 3: she prepared herself for it and you know it was
- 28:31Speaker 3: coming eventually, but I was I thought it was gonna
- 28:36Speaker 3: be because her, my grandma and her were like close close.
- 28:41Speaker 3: So I know it's still her peace for her. But
- 28:43Speaker 3: she told me, like she still feels peace. She feels
- 28:46Speaker 3: peace because she knew she did all she can to
- 28:49Speaker 3: have her last years.
- 28:50Speaker 2: Like that's how I felt about my mom and I
- 28:52Speaker 2: thank God that she's still here. But I had to
- 28:54Speaker 2: get myself to a point where I was like, you know,
- 28:59Speaker 2: as long as God, I know I did everything I
- 29:01Speaker 2: could to have her give her a fighting chance. It's
- 29:03Speaker 2: so weird how the roles reversed in that time of
- 29:05Speaker 2: like me taking care of her and just making sure
- 29:08Speaker 2: she had everything she needed to do well.
- 29:10Speaker 1: That's kind of like how your parents are.
- 29:11Speaker 2: It's like, you know, whether they're disciplining you or whatever,
- 29:13Speaker 2: like they're giving you everything you need to do well,
- 29:14Speaker 2: because once you get out in the world, it's nothing.
- 29:16Speaker 1: They can do.
- 29:17Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, when my mom was going
- 29:18Speaker 2: to through a cancer journey, I'm like, look, I'm gonna
- 29:20Speaker 2: use all the resources I have. I'm gonna use social
- 29:23Speaker 2: media to get information I need and get help everything
- 29:27Speaker 2: and whatever I can do. And I do the same
- 29:30Speaker 2: with my grandmother too, Like it's like I just want
- 29:32Speaker 2: y'all to have everything that you need so you can
- 29:35Speaker 2: live this life, and they still be wanting to make
- 29:38Speaker 2: things hard. I'd be like, yo, I will buy your
- 29:40Speaker 2: groceries every month insta credit right to your door.
- 29:43Speaker 1: I want to go grocery shop.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Why can their normalcy like say.
- 29:49Speaker 2: They want to go grocery shop talk to random people.
- 29:51Speaker 2: Now I'm on nervous say letting people bring their groceries
- 29:54Speaker 2: to stay home. But you have to remember it too though,
- 29:58Speaker 2: Like you said, the roads are river, but they had
- 30:00Speaker 2: a life when he was a baby, like so they
- 30:04Speaker 2: just want.
- 30:04Speaker 1: To relive that, ye get it.
- 30:07Speaker 2: Well, thank you for joining me, Taylor, Wait we didn't.
- 30:09Speaker 1: The more the story is with discipline is I think
- 30:13Speaker 1: it's to each his own. Yeah, And I think I
- 30:16Speaker 1: think it's to each his own.
- 30:18Speaker 2: Every household is different, But I do think you do
- 30:20Speaker 2: have to have a level of like sternness with a
- 30:22Speaker 2: child because I think they got to know that there's
- 30:23Speaker 2: a line.
- 30:24Speaker 1: But there should be a conversation.
- 30:26Speaker 3: I think I feel like the older generation forgot about
- 30:30Speaker 3: it too, about like just knowing their child's feelings too though,
- 30:34Speaker 3: like know why they felt this way or did that
- 30:37Speaker 3: or like have that try to have a conversation with them,
- 30:41Speaker 3: know why they were are getting punished and everything else.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Like yeah, I agree, I agree. Well, thank you for
- 30:49Speaker 2: joining me, Brol of course, yes, and y'all thanks for
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