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You Need To Be Thinking Big (Ray J Apologizes, Jay Z tickets in high demand) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 1: and everybody. You don't know if you don't lie about that,
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  Speaker 1: right cant, Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lorna Rosa and
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  Speaker 1: this is the latest with Laurna Rosa. This is your
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  Speaker 1: daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and
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  Speaker 1: all of the conversations that shake the room. Now, we
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  Speaker 1: always kick off this episode checking in behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: of the Grind, but.
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  Speaker 2: Those are you guys who are new here in this space.
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  Speaker 1: We checking behind the scenes of the Grind, which is
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  Speaker 1: a time where we just honestly stop and ask how
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  Speaker 1: are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Like, how are you really doing? Lowrider? So asking myself
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  Speaker 2: how I'm really doing today? Today? Is I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those days where I'm having conversations with
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  Speaker 1: myself a bit more about longevity.
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  Speaker 2: For some reason, it's morning.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was because it was raining
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  Speaker 1: and it was cloudy outside. I woke up and I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know, I just started talking to God
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  Speaker 1: about like, Okay, what does impact really look like in
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  Speaker 1: the space that I'm in, and like how.
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  Speaker 2: Do you go?
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  Speaker 1: Like like what is going the distance? To actually impact
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  Speaker 1: and what the substance look like. And you know, everything
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  Speaker 1: is so saturated. Everybody's doing this news thing, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just started having all these conversations about what is in
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  Speaker 1: the marketplace, and you know, just where I want to
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  Speaker 1: stand out at and the things I want to do
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  Speaker 1: moving forward, not even moving forward, but just you know,
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  Speaker 1: at some point in career, I want to you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's so many things that I want to do that
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  Speaker 1: involves storytelling. But it's always like right time, and it's
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  Speaker 1: always when can you apply to time so that you're
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  Speaker 1: not just like rushing to do things because you have
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  Speaker 1: the platform at the moment or you know the followers
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, or whatever the case may be, Like
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  Speaker 1: what is the intention?
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  Speaker 2: Why is that in the pitching? And how do you
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  Speaker 2: go about it?
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  Speaker 1: And what are the Everything is like one step after
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  Speaker 1: the other, left foot, right foot, take your time, don't
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  Speaker 1: rush into things, but just knowing when to get started
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  Speaker 1: and how to go about it without taking away from
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  Speaker 1: the main thing, keeping the main thing. The main thing
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  Speaker 1: was something I was having a conversation with myself about
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  Speaker 1: some time ago, and some time ago, but it comes
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  Speaker 1: back up often, and today was one of those days.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been just having conversation with myself about this,
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  Speaker 1: and I told myself that I was going, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pray on it a bit, write down some things, jot
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  Speaker 1: down some things. And one of the things that came
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  Speaker 1: to mind when I was thinking about it is the
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  Speaker 1: fact that, like, you get in this uncomfortable space because
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  Speaker 1: things are so new. And we talked a bit about
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  Speaker 1: this in the last couple episodes, But I think what
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  Speaker 1: I realized in this season of my life is that
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  Speaker 1: I've always had to like everything has always been like
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  Speaker 1: fight or flight for me, and I think that I've
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  Speaker 1: finally gotten into a space just in my personal life
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  Speaker 1: and in my work life where it's not fight or flight.
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  Speaker 1: I posted this meme on the brown Girl Grinding Instagram
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  Speaker 1: Follow us there. It's all about conversation, motivation, and all
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  Speaker 1: the things that are going to shake the room. Brown
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  Speaker 1: girl grinding all common spelling brown girl grinding. But I
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  Speaker 1: had posted this meme and the meme said, why doesn't
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  Speaker 1: anyone have a conversation about when ambition turns down and
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  Speaker 1: your for longevity turns up? And the first time that
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  Speaker 1: I saw that meme, I'm like, I don't even understand
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  Speaker 1: how one thing can be true if you want the
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  Speaker 1: other to be true, Like how are you talking about
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  Speaker 1: longevity and legacy, but you're talking about your ambition turning down?
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  Speaker 1: Like what like no, turn me up? Like you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, Like turn me up so I can execute.
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  Speaker 1: And then today I was having a conversation with myself
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  Speaker 1: and eletting to me having a conversation with you know,
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  Speaker 1: people around me, and one of the things that my
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  Speaker 1: wavend actually identified today he was like, I think for you,
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  Speaker 1: your journey has always been about just trying to get
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  Speaker 1: to the point where you're okay and doing what you
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  Speaker 1: love you love to do so, but now you're at
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  Speaker 1: a point where you're okay and you're and you're doing
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  Speaker 1: what your love what you love, So it's like, how
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  Speaker 1: can you extend that into other things that you love
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  Speaker 1: but also things that you you know will actually help
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  Speaker 1: other people get to the point where they're able to experience,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this like season of not comfort because it's
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  Speaker 1: still very uncomfortable and I and I want to say uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: but I just think I'm beginning to think about like
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  Speaker 1: bigger picture, and that's like a it's like such a
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  Speaker 1: weird feeling because I've always just thought about like securing
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  Speaker 1: the picture in general, to make sure I'm good, like
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like how we paying bills,
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  Speaker 1: how we save, and how we making sure everybody okay.
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm at a space where it's not just
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  Speaker 1: about money, it's it is really about like impact. Like
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm growing up, y'all, Like I'm becoming
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  Speaker 1: one of the new adults, and it's scaring the heck
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  Speaker 1: out of me. But in all of this that I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing every single day and everything I'm putting my time into,
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  Speaker 1: that was my thought this morning. I was driving into
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  Speaker 1: work and I'm like, God, what, like what is this
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  Speaker 1: feeling that I'm having of Like, Okay, let's slowly start
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  Speaker 1: moving into a season of like really figuring out impact.
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  Speaker 1: Because you've identified your passion, You've put yourself in a
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  Speaker 1: good place to be able to pursue your passion and
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  Speaker 1: do it consistently. But now it's like, Okay, there's passion,
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  Speaker 1: but let's.
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  Speaker 2: Look at purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And this is again, this is not a new conversation
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  Speaker 1: for me, y'all, Like feeling like Okay, I know my purpose,
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  Speaker 1: but like do I and if I do. And if
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  Speaker 1: it is what I believe, you know, God is telling
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  Speaker 1: me my purpose is, which is honestly, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it is just about being a vessel? Am I doing
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  Speaker 1: that in all.
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  Speaker 2: The ways that He's equipped me to be able to?
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  Speaker 1: And if not, what like, there's so many other ways
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  Speaker 1: I can do it, because there's so many other things
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  Speaker 1: that I am able to do.
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  Speaker 2: How do I start?
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  Speaker 1: Where do I start in a way that doesn't take
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  Speaker 1: away from the main thing? Everything is cohesive and everything,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just everything one hand washes the other, everything
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  Speaker 1: is supportive of the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: So that's where I've been, you know, thinking lately.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if anybody else is going through
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  Speaker 1: this season of their life where it's like, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not fight or flight, I'm not just surviving.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a space where I'm living. And if you've
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  Speaker 1: ever you know, lived in survival at any point in
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  Speaker 1: your life, you know, sometimes you don't even identify the switch,
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  Speaker 1: like I honestly don't even think I identify the switch
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  Speaker 1: until today, until someone said to me today like that
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  Speaker 1: has always been your your ministry has always been survival
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  Speaker 1: sist and now you're not surviving so now you're able
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  Speaker 1: to think about what is the long term goal, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how is it helping other people?
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  Speaker 2: What is the longevity, what is the life?
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  Speaker 1: What are you actually building, not just what are you
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  Speaker 1: getting up in the every day to do, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to to scratch your goal off the list. So that's
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  Speaker 1: where I've been today mentally. I don't know, you know
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  Speaker 1: how y'all been feeling. And maybe it's the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the weather change, and you know, I feel like warm
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  Speaker 1: weather makes you start upbeat and the thoughts get because
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that is an upbeat thought.
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  Speaker 2: The thoughts get upbeat.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know, I've just been thinking more about
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  Speaker 1: others than myself. And I think a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: is because, like I said in the previous episode, make
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  Speaker 1: sure you guys go take a listen to the episode
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  Speaker 1: prior to this one, the fact that I've been okay
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  Speaker 1: and not feeling guilty with checking up on myself and
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  Speaker 1: taking care of myself. I think it's really put me
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  Speaker 1: in a space where I'm like, Okay, I'm good, Like
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  Speaker 1: i've my cup, you know, it's good, Like I could
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  Speaker 1: I could feel others.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like I don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And until I do that I feel like I'm not
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  Speaker 1: fully fulfilling my purpose that I was put here on
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  Speaker 1: the earth for so been having those conversations with God, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know how y'all are feeling. Check in with
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  Speaker 1: me behind the scenes of the grind. I'm lord on
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  Speaker 1: the roads that everywhere I want to hear from y'all.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get on into the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking about purpose. Okay, let me tell y'all something. There
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  Speaker 1: has been so much purpose that I feel like has
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  Speaker 1: been receiving its flowers within these like last two years,
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  Speaker 1: since you know, a lot of these like legacy iconic
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  Speaker 1: acts have been on the road. I talked about this
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast some time ago. I want to go
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  Speaker 1: see Brandy and Monica in concert when they came here
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  Speaker 1: to New York for the Boy's Mind Tour, and that
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  Speaker 1: tour was iconic, we know because Brandy musical powerhouse, entertainment powerhouse,
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  Speaker 1: Monica musical powerhouse entertainment, powerhouse, and the two didn't always
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  Speaker 1: you know, see eye to eye or the people around
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  Speaker 1: them didn't, and it created this like versus thing between
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  Speaker 1: the two of them, and there's always been this unspoken issue,
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  Speaker 1: right so watching them over this last year just repair
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  Speaker 1: all of that and love on each other and protect
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  Speaker 1: each other has been amazing. And again, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: like you get to this point in your career where
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  Speaker 1: you have done so much for yourself, you look around
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  Speaker 1: you like, Okay, but what can what I've done and
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  Speaker 1: what I've learned do for other people? And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're seeing a lot of our legacy talent,
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  Speaker 1: like or Brand Dow or Monica, that's the season at
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  Speaker 1: their end, so they're talking more about their journeys.
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  Speaker 2: Brandy has his new book coming right, but it was
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  Speaker 2: announced this.
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  Speaker 1: Week that Brandy will be receiving a star on the
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Walk of Fame, And we talked a bit about
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  Speaker 1: this on the Breakfast Club. So the Hollywood Walk of Fane,
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which is the company that actually
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  Speaker 1: gives the what they don't give, you gotta pay for
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  Speaker 1: the company that gives once you pay for your star
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  Speaker 1: on the Hollywood Walker Fane announced that Brandy will be
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  Speaker 1: receiving her star on March thirty of twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to go down in La on Hollywood Boulevard,
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  Speaker 1: which is where it normally goes down at actor Ray
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  Speaker 1: or actor writer Powerhouse. Ter Ray is going to be
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  Speaker 1: speaking on Brandy's Behalf Babyface will also be speaking as well,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just going to be something like amazing and
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  Speaker 1: impactful to see. It'll be live streamed on the official
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  Speaker 1: Walk of Fame website if you guys want to check
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  Speaker 1: that out, and it's actually going to be airing eleven
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  Speaker 1: thirty am Pacific set of time, so that's eleven three
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  Speaker 1: thirty hour time, three hour difference. But you know, you
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  Speaker 1: talk about her Grammy impact, you talk about her iconic
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  Speaker 1: movie and television impact, this is like a long time coming.
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  Speaker 1: She's celebrating thirty years in this business. This is a
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  Speaker 1: long time coming. She deserves every little bit of it.
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  Speaker 1: And recently the conversation around Brandy has just been it's
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  Speaker 1: been a little bit all over. I mean, look, we
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  Speaker 1: did the exclusive here on the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Rey Ja called.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, was defending his sister because he was
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  Speaker 1: upset at some comments that Shine had made when sitting
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  Speaker 1: with Cameron and Mace over on it is what it
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  Speaker 1: is and just brought up the fact that he used
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  Speaker 1: to date her, and to be honest with you, like
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: reg Je posted an apology today and.
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  Speaker 2: Love reggae da. I know he means well.
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  Speaker 1: I think all little brothers mean well, but they just
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  Speaker 1: don't know the harmon they be doing. Sometimes he was
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  Speaker 1: the last person I wanted to hear from in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of us thinking about Brandy's legacy and honoring her
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  Speaker 1: for it, just because he just been. He loves her
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  Speaker 1: so much, But sometimes he gets in his own way
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's there And I say that with so much
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  Speaker 1: love I do. But he posted this apology today. But
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  Speaker 1: he posted this apology to his Instagram that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are picking up and covering, and I want
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  Speaker 1: us to take a listen to it.
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  Speaker 3: Listen. I'm gonna go all out for who I believe
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  Speaker 3: in and who I love. And Brandy is been the
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  Speaker 3: one who has put me on, who has giving me
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  Speaker 3: my opportunities to become successful in every aspect from acting
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  Speaker 3: to singing to TV and the list goes on. I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be here and I wouldn't be where I am
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  Speaker 3: today without Brandy, right, And so this apology is to
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  Speaker 3: Brandy and Brandy only and to Brandy's brand. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things that I might say or do controversy wise, right,
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  Speaker 3: but to tie both of those things into each other
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  Speaker 3: it is not okay. Some of the things I said
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  Speaker 3: was absolutely concerning, disrespectful and heartless. I never want to
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  Speaker 3: attach Brandy into that much disrespect that I portrayed to
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  Speaker 3: the world that should have been on a brand that
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  Speaker 3: only ray J was and only had something to do
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  Speaker 3: with me in my issues, and that's what I'm apologizing for. So, Brandy,
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  Speaker 3: I know what you heard was despicable, dirty, and just
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  Speaker 3: downright disrespectful, and I feel bad. I feel bad that
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  Speaker 3: I tied you into it and brought your brands into
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  Speaker 3: this world that I'm in, and so for that, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: And I think for everybody else involved, we all need
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  Speaker 3: to just chill. It needs to stop now.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that what like the gist of what
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking away from this is that Number one, I
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  Speaker 1: know she probably custed it behind the scenes because ray
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  Speaker 1: J was being crazy, But I also think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just when you think about career and legacy, it's
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  Speaker 1: like there's so much like BS that can be attached
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  Speaker 1: to it, no matter who you are and what you've done.
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  Speaker 1: Just within this last like a week, the conversations that
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  Speaker 1: we've been having about Brandy the conversation she's had to
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  Speaker 1: come out and speak and clarify herself. You know, please
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  Speaker 1: go back and listen to our prior episode if you
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  Speaker 1: have not, where we covered Brandy speaking out about being
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  Speaker 1: upset that Sean was mentioning that they previously dated, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I told you, guys, I spoke to someone in
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  Speaker 1: Seane's camp. We talked about this in the Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 1: as well too, and I explained to them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where the upset was coming from, where the backlash was
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  Speaker 1: coming from. But I'm just like, man, you think about
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  Speaker 1: all these thirty some years that she has been what
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  Speaker 1: she is in entertainment, and even Brandy still got to
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  Speaker 1: deal with the BS, whether it was intentionally done or
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  Speaker 1: said or not. Even like it's still and she is
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  Speaker 1: the most out of the way, doesn't subscribe to any
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  Speaker 1: of the BS, not in the blogs, You're not running
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  Speaker 1: into her anywhere. Like when we think about real celebrity
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  Speaker 1: and being put up and out the way, Brandy is
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  Speaker 1: one of the like she's one of few that we
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  Speaker 1: have left where we don't know everything about her. And
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: she was trying like everything is like protect the brand,
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  Speaker 1: to protect the brand with her, and she still has
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  Speaker 1: to do with all of the all of the things,
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  Speaker 1: all of the drama that comes, right, And I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I was saying, I was thinking about that, and I'm like, dang, Like,
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  Speaker 1: she don't address nothing, she don't be in nothing, she
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  Speaker 1: don't speak on nothing. She literally be about her business
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  Speaker 1: and go home. And she is being an honor for that,
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  Speaker 1: right and still has to deal with it. So what's
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: the point even addressing anything whatsoever? Like we look at
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of like artists who are always back
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  Speaker 1: and forth.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Meet Mill launched a.
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  Speaker 1: LinkedIn account, right, And he says that he launched his
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  Speaker 1: LinkedIn account because you know, for years he's been in
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  Speaker 1: the music industry and wanting to connect with people in
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  Speaker 1: business and you know, all of these different things, right,
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't according to him, and according to him, he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been able to successfully do so.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So he goes over to LinkedIn because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think LinkedIn is just a lot.
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  Speaker 1: More of of a mature crowd anyway, Like he has
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  Speaker 1: people in here telling him like how to control you know,
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  Speaker 1: the LinkedIn process, and how to set up templates and
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  Speaker 1: you know all that stuff, right, So he creates a LinkedIn,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, I'll be on LinkedIn or something because
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. We basically deep in a
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  Speaker 1: deep matrix, trapped between Instagram, ex, TikTok, snaptat, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: We have millions of fans. We can't even get the
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  Speaker 1: real data on them. That's where the bots live, free
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  Speaker 1: control the narrative. He says his algorithm on x is
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: all based on rural politics, Muslim and Jewish hate. It
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: may have started when I first started watching. He says,
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  Speaker 1: he was watching the bombings and guy's on his timeline.
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  Speaker 1: Then he got on this. He's talking about his his
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  Speaker 1: original point in being on social media, right and being
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  Speaker 1: in the mix of the conversation with the post music,
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  Speaker 1: connect with his fans, and now everything is such a
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  Speaker 1: deep fake you know ai mind like culture. Right. So
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  Speaker 1: then he talks about being on LinkedIn, and he's over
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  Speaker 1: there because he wants to, you know, connect in a
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  Speaker 1: real way. Once he posted the fact that he created
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  Speaker 1: a LinkedIn, he said, you know, within minutes and hours,
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  Speaker 1: he had all types of CEOs and business people they
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: would have never met connected with him. In no matter
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: of twenty five minutes, he says he's using AI to
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: help him write his captions. He just wants to be
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: done with all the gossip and the drama. I don't
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: think it matters what platform you go on. I don't
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: think it matters who you are and where you are
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: in your career. I just don't think that you can
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: escape it. I think that eventually we all have to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: get to this point where if that's what you want,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: you just have to live in this kind of like
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a very protected bubble.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: And like that's what ray J's talking about.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Like Brandy lives in this space of like she knows
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: what she wants to know, we know about her, what
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: she wants us to know. She responds to what she
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: wants to respond to. But she's still Brandy. She still
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: sells out arenas like Monica and Brandy sold out that
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: full tour run Right and was very selective about the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: press that they did. It was little to know, like
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: they did press. Don't get me wrong, I'm not gonna
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: say no press. They did press. There were several interviews
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: that they did, promoting in and things like that, but
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: it was they didn't have to they didn't have to
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: buy It's allible, like they didn't have to lean into
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: all of the like the algorithmic stuff, like they're not.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: They weren't doing a lot of the normal hits, Like.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out if they would, like
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: just can we get one of them in the breakfast
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: club when they go to New York And not that
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: they didn't, I mean I never heard back, but it's just,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: you know, for the way that their celebrity is set up,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: they don't have to. And when I think about like
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: legacy and longevity, I even think about that, like what
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: conversations am I even entertaining on a day to day
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: that are not helping me in that move forward? And
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: how can I change it all to that? Somebody else
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: who just popped out and did the thing?
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Jay Z?
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Jay Z announced number one Roots Picnic. Right, people went
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: crazy then, and we talked about that here on the
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: podcast on a previous episode. Right then, jay Z announced
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: his two shows at Yankee Stadium. Is you know, one
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: celebrating in the thirty years of Reasonable Doubt, which is
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a very rare return for jay Z either one of
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: these shows, and another is celebrating on the twenty fifth
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: year anniversary of the Blueprint.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Right, so you got July eleventh and you got July tenth.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Right, we have not seen or heard and I mean
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: everybody listening to this like dug, it's jay Z. But
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: like that's what I mean, like building up that level
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: of like cachet where like you literally can like be
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: seen when you want to be seen and like you know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: like like wow, and control the masses when you want
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to respond to things, winning how you want to wish
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: him and Beyonce.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Barely do right, but.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Even then and still there is so much drama that
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: has been surrounding jay Z's name for like the last month.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: And he don't even yo, he don't even say nothing
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: about nothing. It's like you can't escape it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And it's like kind of scary too, like as I
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: think about, like you know, what I want my platform
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to be and like, you know, the good conversation to
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: be and you know, like I always feel like you
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: got to take the good with the bad, and that's
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: always that's that's a downfall too, of like anything in life,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: but especially in what I do. It's like as much
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: as you want to just report on like all the positive,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: there is the negative too, and it's all a part
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: of it. And it's all I think, it's a stylized thing.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Like it's all about how you do it. Do you
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: do it moral? Do you do it with integrity? Do
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you you know, do it in a way that like,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you know, for me, it's never personal. There's never any malice,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: you know, I never have an ill intention, a targeted
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: intention anything like that. Right, But still it's like, no
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: matter what you do. Sometimes I always think about, like, Yo,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: this this this world of like conversation and storytelling is
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to the point where like people don't even know what's
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: real and what's fake, and they attach both to people's
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: names literally, and the strongest brand survive. But like, think
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: about the people I'm talking about, y'all, Like jay Z is,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Like jay Z has been famous my whole life and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I'm thirty four years old.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Brandy has been famous my whole life.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Like this morning, when I'm having a conversation with myself
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: about like legacy and impact and you know, longevity and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: stay in power, one of the biggest things I was
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: saying is like, how does all of that survive? All
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: of this that we're in that that is running a
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: meek meal over to LinkedIn, right, And a lot of
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the girl. The people that get it get it. We've
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: been on LinkedIn. Now he bringing all the craziness to LinkedIn.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: We've been over there, you know what I mean. But
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and that's a joke I'm saying as to say that
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I don't really know what is excapable at this point.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: But you have all these high points of news today.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Right jay Z with like over eight hundred thousand people
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: in que for these tickets for you know, the concerts
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium, Brandy announced Hollywood Walk of Fame, and
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: ray J is apologizing because he ha done brought you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the drama.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Her way is not escaping it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: So as I you know, continue to think, sorry y'all today,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's news and we're talking about the news.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: But a lot of this I've just been watching the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: moves that people have been making and I'm like, Yo,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: this right here, that is goals.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Like I want to be.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Able to like wake up one day twenty years from
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: now and like my impact still be felt then. Like
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the people we're talking about, like a Brandy, like a Monica,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: like a jay Z. Shoot, even Meek, I don't I
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: don't think that Meek understands his power yet, but he
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: has stay in power.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: It's there. His cultural impact definitely is.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: It's happened, whether people want to give it to him
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: or not, because he's the you know, need to be
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the butt of the jokes a lot ever since that Bunny.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Hot But it's there, right.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: But these are all people that like I look at
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, even if I don't love everything
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: that they're doing, let me look at what they've done,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: because there's a blueprint here, no pun intended, there's a
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: blueprint here, and I want to figure it out. I
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: want to figure it out. So congratulations that everybody that
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: we just mentioned meet that made it meeting that made
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: it all over to the adult in side of social media.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: He's a little late, but we welcome him nonetheless him
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and you know his suits over on LinkedIn nonetheless to
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: our girl Brandy, who is so deserving. I am so excited,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and especially because Ray is going to be speaking on
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: her behalf and I can just see the parallel of
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: why Easter Ray would be inspired by a Brandy, right,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Brandy who made so many strides in television for young
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: black girls in the mainstream just in general, but like
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: in the mainstream who were multi hyphen it and talenting,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and we talk about, you know, making things cohesive. Brandy
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: was all of the things and a multi hyphen it
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: at a very high level before we even the girls
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: even neew what that was. I am so excited to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: hear her speak on Brandy's behalf. I'm just excited for
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: everything to come. Okay, I'm gonna at that concert. I'm
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: gonna be tuned in a brand you on the Walk
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: of Fame. We're gonna bring it all back here to
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the Latest. This has been another episode of the Latest
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: with Lauraa Rosa. I am your host, Laura da Rosa,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and I tell you, guys, every single episode, y'all could
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: be anywhere with any.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Old body, but y'all choose to be right here with me.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: And I appreciate you guys for that.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Now, if you are looking to get some tickets to
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: this Jay Z concert at Yankee Stadium, child, good luck. Okay,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: tickets are already reselling crazy on sub hub. But if
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: there are pre sale tickets though there are well some
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: of the pre sells like they stop the que for it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: But now you can sign up to get an alert.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I'm actually on the website right now. You can sign
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: up to get an alert for tickets that drop today
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: March twenty fourth. Like these are like the general tickets,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: so they have like general tickets in general general VIP.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: So be a ticket Master, So you go to ticket
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Master's website, you join the queue. You go through like
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: this whole thing with ticket Master to join. The ticket
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Master will show you that they're no longer doing the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: pre sales. That what it will tell you is that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: the pre sale has a limited ticket availability and I'm assuming.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: That there are way too many people in the Q already.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Basically that's done.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: So they then list the fact that on March twenty fourth,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: today at ten am, City card members can get preferred tickets.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: There are general public tickets, and that's also VIP packages
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that will be on sell and Legends packages that will
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: be on sell that you can set reminders for.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: So there's various tours of tickets. It's just all going clote.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: So listen, sign up. Hopefully I'll see y'all air