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There’s More Than the Surface · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Let's get, let's get, let's get to it, time to
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Speaker 1: do it. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit
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Speaker 1: about everything and everybody. You hear that exclusive? I don't
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Speaker 1: feel like I'm gonna lie about that, right? Lauren came
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Speaker 1: in hot. Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and
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Speaker 1: this is another episode of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
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Speaker 1: This is your daily dig on all things pop culture,
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Speaker 1: entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now,
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Speaker 1: we normally will start off the podcast with the behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes of the grind. Let's play the intro real
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Speaker 1: quick just so y'all can hear it. Taylor, drop it.
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Speaker 1: And this is the part of the show, this is
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Speaker 1: the segment where I ask the question to myself, Lauren,
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Speaker 1: how are you really feeling like, for real, for real? Like,
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Speaker 1: what is going on, girl? What are you getting into?
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Speaker 1: And today I am headed out to the U.S. Open.
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Speaker 1: HBCU Live is going down at the U.S. Open, which
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Speaker 1: is an HBCU connecting event. You don't have to be
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Speaker 1: in the HBCU to attend the HBCU Live events that
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Speaker 1: happen at the U.S. Open. today, but it happens every year.
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Speaker 1: This is my second year attending. Shout out to HBCU
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Speaker 1: Live and their team. Now, I'm excited. Number one, I'm
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Speaker 1: always excited to go to the U.S. Open. Listen, y'all
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Speaker 1: know I am not an avid sports enthusiast, right? Like,
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Speaker 1: I don't follow every single thing, but I do enjoy
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Speaker 1: watching the girls and the guys have a time at
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Speaker 1: the U.S. Open. Somebody that I've been paying a lot
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Speaker 1: of attention to for the last two years. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I feel like everybody has because she is such a
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Speaker 1: big name in tennis. Naomi Osaka, we talked on the
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Speaker 1: last Latest with Lauren La Rosa episode a little bit
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Speaker 1: about Naomi Osaka and some of the fashion she's been
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Speaker 1: showing up in, okay? Her in Luxury Law, Law Roach,
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Speaker 1: who is a famed stylist. He's worked with everybody from
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Speaker 1: Zendaya to Ryan Destiny to, you know, some of the
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Speaker 1: greats in this game. He's working with her in coordinating
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Speaker 1: these fashion moments in dedication and in tribute to Allen Iverson. Now,
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Speaker 1: Allen Iverson has actually responded to Naomi Osaka. I saw
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Speaker 1: this this morning and wanted to let you guys know
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Speaker 1: what Allen Iverson felt about some of this. And listen,
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Speaker 1: Allen Iverson is one of those people who gets love
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Speaker 1: and tributes a lot. I think In 2026, and, you know,
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Speaker 1: this last, like, I would say, shoot, last, like, five
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Speaker 1: to six years, I think the world has really, really
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Speaker 1: begun pouring on heavy to Allen Iverson and understanding what
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Speaker 1: he did, how he broke through. And I'm not even
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Speaker 1: just talking about, like, basketball, because for me, when I
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Speaker 1: look at certain things, I'm not just looking at it,
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Speaker 1: especially in sports, to be honest. I'm really not looking
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Speaker 1: at it from a sports take first ever. It's always
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Speaker 1: like a cultural impact or impact on people and influence.
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Speaker 1: And Allen Iverson was that from his braids to the
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Speaker 1: way that he, you know, dressed to the things that
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Speaker 1: he said, the things that he did not go for.
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Speaker 1: There's always been a conversation around that and how he
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Speaker 1: made room for basketball players, but athletes in general, To
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Speaker 1: be able to really lean in and hone in on themselves,
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Speaker 1: their looks, their images, and making statements through the things
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Speaker 1: that they're not going for in the fashion statements that
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Speaker 1: they're doing. And Naomi Osaka, you know, a lot of
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Speaker 1: what she is doing these last couple days on the
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Speaker 1: court is just that. But Allen Iverson reposted her tribute yesterday.
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Speaker 1: And he said, thank you for the beautiful tribute. I'm
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Speaker 1: grateful to have inspired you. Blessings to you on your journey,
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Speaker 1: your inspiration to many, including myself. Now, this was because
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Speaker 1: she's done and posted a few different tributes. But this
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Speaker 1: was after she wore the black and white Nike skirt,
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Speaker 1: tennis skirt and tennis top. And she had the headband
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Speaker 1: and Iverson braids and the arm sleeve as well. So
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Speaker 1: I know it feels good if you're AI to see it,
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Speaker 1: but to see it across all sports. It just speaks
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Speaker 1: to its impact and speaks to the impact of representation
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Speaker 1: in a sport. And I think for me, that is
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Speaker 1: what is always exciting. It is not just about the
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Speaker 1: actual sport itself. But I remember last year when I
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Speaker 1: went to the U.S. Open, it was my first time
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Speaker 1: going to the U.S. Open under the HBCU Live campaign. event.
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Speaker 1: And the biggest thing that stood out to me was
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Speaker 1: I saw all of the, there were so many, first
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Speaker 1: of all, I was surprised that there were so many
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Speaker 1: black people, not just there, but like involved in the,
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Speaker 1: like the day, the production of the day around the
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Speaker 1: U S open and not just on the HBCU live day,
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Speaker 1: but in general, um, I learned so much about, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, the different organizations that they have to support
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Speaker 1: the black tennis players as they emerge and become successful
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Speaker 1: in the sport and just the community within the U.S. Open.
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Speaker 1: There were so many people there dressed in their prairie,
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Speaker 1: which is like, you know, whether you're in a fraternity
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Speaker 1: or sorority at HBCU, that's when you wear your letters,
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Speaker 1: your colors. There were so many people there in support.
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Speaker 1: But these are people who are doing this not just
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Speaker 1: at U.S. Open time, but are supporting matches there. as
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Speaker 1: much and as often as they can. So that was
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Speaker 1: like the biggest thing. It was like such an eye-opening
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Speaker 1: thing for me. I've been to Wimbledon before, but I'd
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Speaker 1: never been to U.S. Open. And even when I went
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Speaker 1: to Wimbledon, I was young. I was a part of
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Speaker 1: a tennis camp. And I'll be honest with y'all, my
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Speaker 1: little black tennis camp that I was in from the
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Speaker 1: inner city, we were probably the most black people I
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Speaker 1: saw there. And I vividly remember because when you're that
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Speaker 1: young and you were taken into this huge full of
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Speaker 1: all these cheering white people. And we were literally there
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Speaker 1: to see, I believe it was Serena play. We were
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Speaker 1: there to see Serena play. I just remember it because
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Speaker 1: I remember it being us and Serena. And it was
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Speaker 1: few far between the rest of us. But I love
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Speaker 1: to see the evolution in the sport and the support
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Speaker 1: behind the black tennis players as they take the field. Also,
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Speaker 1: not field, as they take the court. Um, I also, uh,
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Speaker 1: last year I talked to you guys a bit about
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Speaker 1: getting to see Coco golf warm up and I've been
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Speaker 1: seeing Venus and Serena post videos around their warmups cause
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Speaker 1: they're doing a doubles this year. Um, it's their big
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Speaker 1: return to the U S open and people are really
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Speaker 1: excited about that. So I know we'll probably like, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna try to, if they're there practicing, I'm gonna try
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Speaker 1: to sneak over and go see that. But it'd be
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Speaker 1: lines literally to wait to see people, um, practice. Like
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Speaker 1: it's insane to, the amount of people that come out
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Speaker 1: just to watch, you know, everybody play. And in real life,
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Speaker 1: when you're watching these tennis players play, they're like superheroes.
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Speaker 1: It's insane how, like, just, oh, my God, the full
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Speaker 1: court coverage, the way their bodies are moving. Like, it's
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Speaker 1: amazing to watch. It is amazing to watch in person. Yeah, like,
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Speaker 1: even if you don't know everything about tennis, it's amazing
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Speaker 1: to go and watch these people be literally the biggest
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Speaker 1: players boldest names in their sport in real time and
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Speaker 1: make it look so effortless. So I'm there today. HBCU Live,
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Speaker 1: shout out to the team. Shout out to Sean and
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Speaker 1: everybody over there. Thank you guys for taking care of
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Speaker 1: me every year. I'm really excited to be back. But
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Speaker 1: let's get into the latest. So I want to have
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Speaker 1: a conversation with you guys. And it's crazy because I
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Speaker 1: think in our last episode, we talked a bit about Skillababy,
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Speaker 1: him being on The Breakfast Club. We talked a lot
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Speaker 1: about God and, you know, pivots and I felt like
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Speaker 1: it was a very spiritual conversation and we are back
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Speaker 1: again today with another one. Okay. Um, while skill of
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Speaker 1: baby was here on the breakfast club, we talked about
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Speaker 1: a ton. Um, we talked about the fact that he's
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Speaker 1: on his journey, his faith walk. Um, but during the interview,
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Speaker 1: there was something that happened that is now going extremely viral. Um,
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Speaker 1: and I want to talk about why it's going viral and, and,
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Speaker 1: and it kind of the irony of that. Let's take
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Speaker 1: a listen. Um, because when skill of baby was here,
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Speaker 1: we actually, we prayed with him and, um, It's getting
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Speaker 1: people to talk about God. Let's take a listen. You
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Speaker 1: want to pray or you want us to pray? I
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Speaker 1: want y'all to do it. Okay. Dear Lord, Heavenly Father,
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Speaker 1: I thank you for bringing us together today. I thank
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Speaker 1: you for Scalababy and his journey and his voice. I
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Speaker 1: pray that you cover him. You continue to lead him
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Speaker 1: down a path of leadership, but also down a path
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Speaker 1: of vulnerability as he places his life story out for
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Speaker 1: other people to see, to know, to understand, but also
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Speaker 1: to follow him in the right way. I also pray
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Speaker 1: that you comfort him in moments where we don't even
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Speaker 1: understand what comfort is, where he may not understand what
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Speaker 1: comfort is, but that you sit right there next to him,
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Speaker 1: you speak to him, you hold him in the ways
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Speaker 1: that he is needed because there are moments and times
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Speaker 1: where only he will understand exactly what you were saying
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Speaker 1: to him, why, and who you are as you show
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Speaker 1: up there, God. I pray that you show up, you
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Speaker 1: show up clear. I pray no spirit of confusion, no
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Speaker 1: spirit of fear. And I just pray that you continue
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Speaker 1: to show favor in his life. I think that he,
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Speaker 1: I know that he is here for a reason. I
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Speaker 1: know that he is still here with us for a reason.
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Speaker 1: I know that you will continue to you know, display
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Speaker 1: that for him as he continues to walk forward. I
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Speaker 1: pray that in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Yes.
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Speaker 1: I've listened to that probably like four to five times
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Speaker 1: just today alone, because me and Charlamagne were talking about
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Speaker 1: this and it's crazy. Cause I think, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: like I, I, I, I feel like I'm, I was
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Speaker 1: talking to myself as well. And that's something that Charlamagne
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Speaker 1: said to me. And I was like, Okay. Like, but
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Speaker 1: I heard what he was saying. Like me and Char
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Speaker 1: talked about this and he was like, you know, a
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Speaker 1: lot of times when I'm watching you do topics or
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Speaker 1: just like report on things on a very surface level, the, the,
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Speaker 1: like your confidence, your, your discernment, your discernment, your distinctiveness, the,
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Speaker 1: you know, the not stumble versus do you stumble? It's,
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Speaker 1: it's not always consistent, but in that moment you are,
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Speaker 1: It was, like, confident. I told you it was the flow. Yeah, like...
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Speaker 1: But I think, you know, something like that is... Like,
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Speaker 1: in real life, like, I'm really on a journey to
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Speaker 1: figure things out. And I talk about it a lot
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Speaker 1: because I think a lot of people... They're trying to
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Speaker 1: do the same thing. They're trying to do the same thing,
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Speaker 1: but people don't take the moment to, like, actually acknowledge it. Like,
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Speaker 1: people want to act like they've already arrived. And I
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Speaker 1: know that in certain instances... God has walked me through
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Speaker 1: the door and I have arrived. And I, and I
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Speaker 1: know that to be fact, that's why you guys are
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Speaker 1: able to press play and listen to me here on
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Speaker 1: the latest with Lauren, the Rose of the podcast. But
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Speaker 1: I also know that there is a lot of depth
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Speaker 1: and substance to what I'm here, placed here to do
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Speaker 1: that I don't understand yet. And I think what I
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Speaker 1: identified most with Skillababy and listening to him in the
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Speaker 1: conversation that we had was that he's being very honest
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Speaker 1: with like, he's kind of just like walking by faith
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Speaker 1: and not by sight. And that is... He's so self-aware. Hi, y'all.
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Speaker 2: Taylor made it.
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Speaker 1: But he's so self-aware. Yes. I think you have to be, though. Like,
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Speaker 1: when one of the most clearest things that has ever
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Speaker 1: happened in my life happened because I know for a fact,
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Speaker 1: like people be like, Oh, my instinct. And I heard something. No,
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Speaker 1: I know for a fact, God said to me, you
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Speaker 1: got to move. It is time to like shake the room.
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Speaker 1: And it's time to, I heard it clearly. There is
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Speaker 1: no confusion. There is no second guessing what I heard,
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Speaker 1: why I heard it, what I was supposed to do.
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Speaker 1: Any of that. I've never been more sure about anything
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Speaker 1: in my life other than my faith walk and understanding
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Speaker 1: walking by faith and not by sight. Mm-hmm. I think
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Speaker 1: it gets hard because our human gets in the way.
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Speaker 1: And when I was talking to Skillababy and I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to him about, you know, him being Skillababy the rapper
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Speaker 1: and the lyrics and the fact that he was shot
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Speaker 1: and like him wanting to retaliate at one point and
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Speaker 1: then changing his mind. It's like the battle of your
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Speaker 1: human wants and needs versus like what God wants and
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Speaker 1: needs from you.
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Speaker 2: Can we play that clip of him like kind of
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Speaker 2: saying how he was he was disappointed in himself because
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Speaker 2: he knew better.
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Speaker 1: Like, I've never heard... Yeah. But I've never heard a.
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Speaker 2: Rapper that still be in the mix of what he
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Speaker 2: grew up upon, like, understand that about himself that he
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Speaker 2: messed up.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, I've never heard that, so...
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Speaker 1: We're still kicking it with Skillababy. His new album, The
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Speaker 1: Price of Fame, is out now. You got a shot
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Speaker 1: last summer, right? Mm-hmm. How did that impact you mentally?
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Speaker 3: Mentally, it just put me in a spot where I
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Speaker 3: was dark.
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Speaker 1: I was dark for a minute.
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Speaker 3: And that's when I really, my faith started getting, I
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Speaker 3: tested my faith the most. Because I felt humiliated. I
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Speaker 3: felt like I let myself down, all that type of stuff.
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Speaker 1: Why you feel like you let yourself down? And why'd
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Speaker 1: you feel humiliated? Because I know better. Oh, you mean
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Speaker 1: the way you was moving?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like I know better. But I felt like in
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Speaker 3: the moments, like I'm bigger than the program, like, you know?
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Speaker 3: And certain stuff you don't do when you do what
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Speaker 3: I do. Like, and I had to understand that I
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Speaker 3: always be trying to act like I'm a normal person
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Speaker 3: and stuff, but. My career is not normal.
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Speaker 1: Unlearning. I'm not. And that's why I think I talk
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Speaker 1: so much about discipline because when that timer went off
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Speaker 1: for him and it was his prayer time, that is
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Speaker 1: him building his discipline. And oh my God, Taylor, it
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Speaker 1: was you on the last episode when I was saying
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Speaker 1: to you, like, and a lot of times when I'm
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Speaker 1: talking to people, I'm talking to myself. Oh my God, God,
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Speaker 1: like right now, just clearly right now, God just said like,
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Speaker 1: that wasn't me. That was God talking to me literally
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Speaker 1: right now. Because when I said to you yesterday that,
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Speaker 1: locking in in your faith journey helps you so much
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Speaker 1: through a pivot it's because things become so much more
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Speaker 1: clear like and when I'm listening to this prayer back
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Speaker 1: and people are like hitting me and just telling me
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Speaker 1: like you know what the prayer did for them and
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Speaker 1: I'm like man I'm here and I'm locked in but
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Speaker 1: like I think that there's another level of locking on
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Speaker 1: the spiritual side that God is saying to me and
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Speaker 1: revealing to me and I think that For a long time,
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Speaker 1: I've been... Because I think everybody has their thing, right? Like,
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Speaker 1: when you think about a Wendy Williams, you know her niche.
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Speaker 1: You know what she's... You know what I mean? It's
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Speaker 1: the messy, catty aunt who, like, always knows everything. When
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Speaker 1: you think about Charlamagne, it's like, he's honest. He's from
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Speaker 1: South Carolina. It's mental health. I think in me developing
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Speaker 1: in this space as a businesswoman, as talent, as a voice,
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Speaker 1: as a source... As, you know, in a trusted, you know,
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Speaker 1: across all of those venues, like I've as as a
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Speaker 1: as a my flesh is like I have to find
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Speaker 1: my niche and like rinse and repeat. But like the
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Speaker 1: spirit in me is like, girl, that none of that,
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Speaker 1: those little titles and the niche and the brand and
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Speaker 1: the curating. have nothing on the reason why i'm even
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Speaker 1: i'm even allowing for the masses to be able to
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Speaker 1: hear you i don't know where i am in that
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Speaker 1: yet but something is like like there's some work i
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Speaker 1: have to do and i think what it is is
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Speaker 1: i gotta like take a step back i wouldn't even
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Speaker 1: say slow down because i think that i've got a
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Speaker 1: balance of everything but i do need to dedicate some
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Speaker 1: more time In listening to God and in listening to
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Speaker 1: what God is allowing me to say to other people,
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Speaker 1: because I think what he's what he's doing. And I
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Speaker 1: literally hung up the phone from Charlemagne and was like,
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Speaker 1: all right, God, I heard you. Which is so crazy
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Speaker 1: that it was Charlemagne the devil that called me and
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Speaker 1: said that. But when he called me, though, he said, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, like this is this is what I'm hearing
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Speaker 1: for you. And whenever we have these like really deep talks.
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Speaker 1: One thing I can appreciate from Charlemagne is whenever we
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Speaker 1: do have these really deep talks, he's very honest with
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Speaker 1: me whether I want to hear it or not. But
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Speaker 1: there's nothing that he has ever said to me when
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Speaker 1: he's like, yo, this is what God is like. This
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Speaker 1: is how this is on my spirit. Right. That either
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Speaker 1: hasn't come to fruition or hasn't made me think twice
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Speaker 1: about something anymore. And once I thought twice about it
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Speaker 1: and changed it or opened myself up to it, hasn't
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Speaker 1: made a clear path for takeoff. Like, I might not
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Speaker 1: agree with everything. Everything might not be 100% correct because,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's still outside looking in. But I will
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Speaker 1: say that there is a spirit of discernment there that
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Speaker 1: I appreciate. And in this moment, like, I'm watching people literally...
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Speaker 1: learn about god through the breakfast club and i remember
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Speaker 1: when i first got here i had a conversation with
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Speaker 1: um he's a youth pastor at my church now but
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Speaker 1: just my at the time he wasn't pastor rome yet
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Speaker 1: but one of my friends jerome lewis at my church
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Speaker 1: sees a greatness his dad is our pastor um pastor
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Speaker 1: rome senior um but i remember i was saying to
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Speaker 1: him you know sometimes i feel like i get up
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Speaker 1: and i go to work every day and it's great
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Speaker 1: and i have a good time but like what is
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Speaker 1: my like what's the substance in it like how like
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Speaker 1: what is the why how am i helping people And
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Speaker 1: I've been asking that even here on this podcast, y'all,
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Speaker 1: for probably like the last seven months. Y'all are probably
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Speaker 1: tired of hearing me say that. And all of this
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Speaker 1: has made me really think about how I figure, like
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Speaker 1: how I approach figuring out that why and not even
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Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. I just need to like
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Speaker 1: sit down and listen and really get into my faith
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Speaker 1: walk and allow myself to be led into all of it.
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Speaker 1: Because I don't think, I don't think anybody's, purpose is
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Speaker 1: as surface level as like your day to day schedule
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Speaker 1: will allow you to believe. Like being a parent is
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Speaker 1: great and it probably is your purpose. But when you
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Speaker 1: raise your son and your son goes out into the
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Speaker 1: world and you know, maybe he cures cancer or maybe
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Speaker 1: he saves a life or maybe he's just the backbone
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Speaker 1: you need one day. I think then you discover, Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't just being a parent. I gave birth to
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Speaker 1: the answer to something that nobody else could have known
17:21
Speaker 1: was going to happen to me. But God, you know
17:22
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, I feel like I'm at surface
17:24
Speaker 1: level right now. And I'm trying to... I'm fighting hard
17:28
Speaker 1: because I know that there's more to the surface level.
17:30
Speaker 1: But I gotta... The fight is not even mine. Like,
17:32
Speaker 1: I gotta just really lock in and figure out what
17:35
Speaker 1: that lock in is. Because I'm being led to this, like, next... This, like, second... Like,
17:40
Speaker 1: it's like the second iteration of my introduction to the world.
17:43
Speaker 1: And it keeps, like, happening. And to the world more
17:46
Speaker 1: so to myself. For real.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
17:49
Speaker 1: I think.
17:50
Speaker 2: with me like what you just said with like what
17:53
Speaker 2: my what made my like how do you say it
17:56
Speaker 2: my son will maybe cure cancer or whatever like what's
18:00
Speaker 2: the bigger purpose I think I live too much in
18:03
Speaker 2: the present sometimes and I have to fall back and
18:08
Speaker 2: like think about that in a in a good way versus.
18:12
Speaker 1: Like being um deterred by the present.
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Speaker 2: Yeah i think i get i get.
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Speaker 1: Like we do and that's why like for me faith
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Speaker 1: i don't think you should just turn to god when
18:26
Speaker 1: you are in a bad place i think it should
18:29
Speaker 1: be in a good place or a bad place but
18:31
Speaker 1: i do i will say that when you are in
18:33
Speaker 1: those dark places, I think that's why faith is so
18:38
Speaker 1: important because when you are deterred from things, there's nobody
18:43
Speaker 1: that can really talk you through that feeling because you
18:46
Speaker 1: can't even really describe it. But also, your vision is
18:49
Speaker 1: your vision. And not just career-wise. Even the vision that
18:54
Speaker 1: you have for your life, for how you want to
18:57
Speaker 1: feel every day when you wake up, for you as
18:59
Speaker 1: a human and as a person... It is literally yours.
19:02
Speaker 1: God gave it to you. And I learned a long
19:06
Speaker 1: time ago, and thanks to, like, you know, my mom,
19:10
Speaker 1: even though, you know, my mom was, like, always an
19:12
Speaker 1: unconventional parent. Like, you know, she, I've never seen her
19:15
Speaker 1: work a job. She always was an entrepreneur working for herself.
19:18
Speaker 1: Her background was, like, a fashion designer in New York.
19:20
Speaker 1: So she would bring me to New York and bring
19:23
Speaker 1: me to the fashion district. Yeah, like, but she was
19:25
Speaker 1: always very unconventional, right? And now that I'm older... I
19:30
Speaker 1: thank God for that so much because it's like, do
19:32
Speaker 1: you know the type of spiritual being you have to
19:35
Speaker 1: be to create something that like people don't even can't
19:38
Speaker 1: even fathom? Like her moving out of the house early,
19:43
Speaker 1: coming to New York, doing the things that she did.
19:46
Speaker 1: Like even when my mom decided to leave New York,
19:48
Speaker 1: she went to Delaware and. bought a multifamily home and
19:52
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna get in real estate and, and
19:54
Speaker 1: rent apartments and bought this shell of a house. There
19:57
Speaker 1: was nothing in the house, but she saw the vision.
20:00
Speaker 1: Like she had it. It was already hers before she
20:02
Speaker 1: got to Delaware. People thought she was bad. People thought
20:05
Speaker 1: she was crazy. Like literally until you could physically, physically
20:10
Speaker 1: walk in the house and see the rooms and see
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Speaker 1: the stairs and see the water running. You know what
20:14
Speaker 1: I mean? Like, I think that that is like such
20:16
Speaker 1: an analogy for life of like, I mean, it don't
20:20
Speaker 1: it don't happen as easy like skillet baby went through
20:24
Speaker 1: a lot to get to where he is. And I
20:27
Speaker 1: even saw some people in, you know, in some critique
20:30
Speaker 1: or just responses to, you know, the prayer now that
20:34
Speaker 1: all these different gospel sites and it's not just gospel
20:38
Speaker 1: faith based sites like you got the culture having a
20:41
Speaker 1: conversation about it right now.
20:42
Speaker 2: Right.
20:42
Speaker 1: Right. But I saw people saying, like, you know, well,
20:46
Speaker 1: it took for him to get shot to find God.
20:48
Speaker 1: It don't matter where God finds you. Yeah, what does
20:50
Speaker 1: that matter? And also, we don't know that. Exactly. We
20:53
Speaker 1: don't know that whatsoever. Because... How long ago did that happen?
20:58
Speaker 1: The shooting was in May 2025. So, I saw an
21:03
Speaker 1: interview with.
21:06
Speaker 2: Him and Pretty V. And it seemed like he's always had...
21:11
Speaker 2: God in his life, though, so.
21:12
Speaker 1: You have to always have had God in your life
21:14
Speaker 1: to know to listen to... You know how hard it
21:17
Speaker 1: is to listen just to, like, humans? Like, people that
21:21
Speaker 1: you can literally see, touch, feel, and hear. Like, I...
21:24
Speaker 1: I don't be listening. Like, I don't. Because I be
21:28
Speaker 1: so set in my own mind, in my own way.
21:30
Speaker 1: Sometimes I get in my own way. I don't listen. Right?
21:32
Speaker 1: To who? Anybody. Especially not Charlamagne. But, like, anybody. Like, but...
21:38
Speaker 1: It always, there are times where I'm like, I should
21:40
Speaker 1: have listened. But literally, these are people that are tangible. Like,
21:44
Speaker 1: you literally can see, like, I see you. I can
21:47
Speaker 1: literally touch you right now. Me and Taylor are in
21:48
Speaker 1: the same studio, y'all. In order for Skillet Baby to say...
21:54
Speaker 1: I was listening to God, and we asked him about
21:56
Speaker 1: his faith walk and when he got so, like, locked
21:59
Speaker 1: into it and why he's so committed to it. And
22:01
Speaker 1: he said God just told him it was time. That
22:03
Speaker 1: means he had to listen. You know how hard it
22:05
Speaker 1: is to listen to something that you can't even see?
22:09
Speaker 1: I still struggle with that. Like, how you were just saying, like,
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Speaker 1: God is speaking.
22:13
Speaker 2: Like, I don't feel like— I don't know if I've had that.
22:17
Speaker 1: Like, I don't know. I don't know what it feels like.
22:19
Speaker 2: I don't know what it sounds like.
22:20
Speaker 1: Like, I don't know. I think everybody has had it
22:25
Speaker 1: because you were— when Jesus died to make sure that, like,
22:31
Speaker 1: we were good, he had all of us in mind.
22:33
Speaker 1: He had everything that we were going to do, everything
22:36
Speaker 1: that we were going to become. He had all of
22:38
Speaker 1: us in mind. It had nothing to do with— it was for, like—
22:42
Speaker 1: For God so loved the world, he gave his only
22:43
Speaker 1: begotten son. He had everything in mind about us before
22:47
Speaker 1: we knew. And that's why God was like, you know what?
22:49
Speaker 1: Go ahead. Go ahead. Take care of that. Like, you
22:50
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, go do that because there's
22:52
Speaker 1: going to be so much more that comes from this.
22:55
Speaker 1: And in him already knowing you, there's no way that
22:57
Speaker 1: you're here just navigating and doing this by yourself. But
23:00
Speaker 1: the reason why I encourage... you don't even got to
23:03
Speaker 1: be the most Christian person listening to us do this podcast.
23:06
Speaker 1: A lot of y'all are here right now. We've been
23:08
Speaker 1: honest because I be into people business. I tell y'all
23:11
Speaker 1: what's going on. And, and, and that's, that's what we do.
23:13
Speaker 1: We have conversations, but I'm learning in real time that
23:16
Speaker 1: like bringing people in that way is the start. That's
23:20
Speaker 1: not the finish because God already knew and put it
23:23
Speaker 1: in me to be able to even get y'all here and,
23:27
Speaker 1: You just have to lock in enough to be able
23:29
Speaker 1: to hear it and recognize what it is and what's happening.
23:33
Speaker 1: And everybody's journey during that looks different for me. I
23:36
Speaker 1: know I'm a physical person. I need it. I took
23:39
Speaker 1: that year. I was in Delaware. I told my, like,
23:41
Speaker 1: I like literally I, God was like, all right, you
23:45
Speaker 1: in this season right now, things are crazy. You down
23:49
Speaker 1: on your last dollar some days, but it's cool because
23:51
Speaker 1: you home. Like, you with family. You can work. You got,
23:53
Speaker 1: you know, you got the family heads, things you can do, houses,
23:57
Speaker 1: all this stuff. You can figure things out. But that
23:59
Speaker 1: wasn't how I was used to living. I've been on
24:01
Speaker 1: my own forever. But it humbled me. It put me
24:03
Speaker 1: in a position where I had to really just, all right,
24:05
Speaker 1: all right, now what am I about to do? But
24:08
Speaker 1: during that time... It was literally I remember the day
24:11
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, number one, before I do
24:14
Speaker 1: any of this. Right. I got the event space. We're
24:15
Speaker 1: going to throw events. We're going to do this. I
24:16
Speaker 1: need to go back. I need to get into church.
24:18
Speaker 1: I mean, like every Sunday I need to physically be present.
24:22
Speaker 1: Like I need to show up physically. I need to
24:24
Speaker 1: lock in. Church is my time. I need to do that.
24:29
Speaker 1: Doing that transformed the way that I think, the way
24:32
Speaker 1: I feel about certain things. And just my ability to
24:37
Speaker 1: just know, like, yo, it's going to be cool. Like,
24:39
Speaker 1: God is always going to come in with, like, something
24:41
Speaker 1: to say. And I think it's there for you. You
24:44
Speaker 1: just got to develop what your lock-in is. Like, it
24:47
Speaker 1: might not be going into a physical church for you. Everybody,
24:50
Speaker 1: some people are spiritual, but they're not religious.
24:52
Speaker 3: Yeah.
24:53
Speaker 2: I mean, what I do, too, is, like, when I'm
24:56
Speaker 2: in the shower and when I'm When I'm rocking my
25:00
Speaker 2: son to sleep, I always do a prayer and just, like,
25:02
Speaker 2: you know, wishing for, you know, good and my goals to,
25:09
Speaker 2: you know, come to fruition.
25:11
Speaker 1: And that's your time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:13
Speaker 1: That is your time. In church, they do praise and worship.
25:16
Speaker 1: And they do praise and worship as, like, every— there' s, like,
25:20
Speaker 1: set time slots for different things that are happening, right?
25:22
Speaker 1: It's different for everybody.
25:24
Speaker 2: Yeah.
25:26
Speaker 1: I wish that when I'm, oh, I'm trying to think
25:28
Speaker 1: how much of it I recorded, because I wish you
25:31
Speaker 1: could see all of the, like, doubt that was there, too. Like,
25:34
Speaker 1: it took me, it took me, like, six months to
25:38
Speaker 1: stop fighting what I was feeling. Maybe, like, even longer
25:41
Speaker 1: than that, honestly.
25:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I'm in the, I don't know,
25:47
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in the place of unknown, and
25:52
Speaker 2: then at the same time, like, kind of what you
25:56
Speaker 2: were talking about yesterday like I know I'm like I'm.
25:58
Speaker 1: Right here though like but it's just but you know
26:02
Speaker 1: also too like you talk about like not just being
26:04
Speaker 1: in the moment sometimes you should like I'm trying to
26:06
Speaker 1: figure out that and being in the moment and we
26:08
Speaker 1: talked about this on the last episode of the latest
26:10
Speaker 1: with Lauren La Rosa you guys go check that out
26:12
Speaker 1: but what is the balance of even being able to
26:15
Speaker 1: be in the moment in a career like what we
26:17
Speaker 1: have where everything is moving fast news is moving fast
26:20
Speaker 1: like in a time we're talking right now things are
26:23
Speaker 1: breaking literally yeah But the beauty of being able to
26:27
Speaker 1: be in the moment is you realize you have the moment.
26:30
Speaker 1: Everybody don't have... As much as you want things to elevate,
26:36
Speaker 1: and they will, you always got to speak about things
26:39
Speaker 1: in a.
26:42
Speaker 1: It's happening again where I'm like, girl, this is you
26:44
Speaker 1: talking to yourself. You always got to speak about things
26:48
Speaker 1: and speak. Not postured, but confidently... and in a tense
26:54
Speaker 1: of speaking it, like, speaking it into fruition. Like, literally,
26:58
Speaker 1: it's like from your mouth to God's ears.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
27:01
Speaker 2: Like, I don't, I try not to pray, um, just
27:04
Speaker 2: in my head, like, to speak it out loud.
27:06
Speaker 1: But, because honestly, that's what it is. Like, people was like,
27:09
Speaker 1: how did you, were you able to pray? First of all,
27:12
Speaker 1: I mean, you go out with a black grandma, you've
27:15
Speaker 1: been praying your whole life, just in general. But, what
27:18
Speaker 1: you guys are hearing is me, like, this is what
27:22
Speaker 1: I want to see for him. Like, because of the
27:24
Speaker 1: conversation I just had and the connection I felt with
27:26
Speaker 1: his story, like, I've never been shot, but I've been through,
27:30
Speaker 1: you know, my little brother was shot. Like, I know
27:32
Speaker 1: how hard it is. to mentally get yourself back together
27:36
Speaker 1: and get your life together after something like that, after
27:39
Speaker 1: feeling the embarrassment, the disappointment, the letdown, you know, you
27:42
Speaker 1: feel like you let your family down, but also like this, this,
27:45
Speaker 1: the scariness of it, of it all. And, and I
27:49
Speaker 1: didn't experience that personally, but I saw it, but in
27:51
Speaker 1: my own life, I've experienced a lot of things where
27:54
Speaker 1: I was like, I knew better. Yo, like I could
27:59
Speaker 1: have done better. Man, I don't get that segment back. Lauren,
28:03
Speaker 1: you should have better. Yo, this today, I fell asleep
28:07
Speaker 1: early last night and I feel so good. I feel
28:09
Speaker 1: like I'm not drained. But I woke up this morning
28:13
Speaker 1: trying to finish my notes and just couldn't like get
28:15
Speaker 1: myself together. So I had to do a majority of
28:17
Speaker 1: my notes for the first segment of The Breakfast Club
28:19
Speaker 1: this morning, about maybe 30 minutes prior to going on air.
28:25
Speaker 1: hated the way that my whole first hour went for myself.
28:28
Speaker 1: Cause I just, I felt like I didn't deliver things
28:30
Speaker 1: the way that I wanted them to, but I'm watching
28:32
Speaker 1: the clips back and I'm like, you sounded good, but
28:35
Speaker 1: it's not what I like. I don't get that moment
28:38
Speaker 1: over again. And it's not what I wanted to do
28:41
Speaker 1: in the moment. And I think the biggest thing that
28:43
Speaker 1: I'm hearing from all of this conversation and just everything
28:48
Speaker 1: is just, being able to maneuver through the world, knowing
28:52
Speaker 1: God sent you there is a different type of superpower
28:54
Speaker 1: and a different type of favor. Yeah. And regardless, if you,
28:59
Speaker 1: you know, if God gave you the spirit to be
29:01
Speaker 1: able to prepare, do it. If God gave you the
29:03
Speaker 1: spirit and the know-how and the instinct to be able
29:07
Speaker 1: to ask my questions, do it. Like use what you
29:10
Speaker 1: have because that's why we have it. This moment doesn't,
29:13
Speaker 1: no one else is going to get this moment right
29:15
Speaker 1: here again that we are in right now. Like me
29:17
Speaker 1: and you will never be sitting right here again having
29:19
Speaker 1: the same exact conversation, the same exact way at the
29:21
Speaker 1: same exact time on the same exact day.
29:23
Speaker 3: Yeah.
29:24
Speaker 1: Being in the moment is like, it's a beautiful thing,
29:27
Speaker 1: but also like it's, God has like allowed you that.
29:31
Speaker 1: So don't wait, like don't waste that. And I think
29:34
Speaker 1: what a lot of people are picking up from Skillababy
29:36
Speaker 1: is his discipline and his intention. But all of that
29:39
Speaker 1: comes from him being like, I am still here. I'm
29:41
Speaker 1: not wasting that. If I feel like what God said,
29:45
Speaker 1: I need to pray and talk to him. And in
29:47
Speaker 1: my day to day, I've learned I need to do
29:49
Speaker 1: it three to four times a day. I'm not wasting that.
29:52
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it. Whatever I got going on,
29:54
Speaker 1: I admire that. That is what I am trying to
29:58
Speaker 1: get to as I figure out you know, walking in
30:01
Speaker 1: leadership and understanding in the moments where I need to
30:04
Speaker 1: be comforted what I need and hearing God. Like, as
30:06
Speaker 1: I'm figuring out all them things I was saying to him,
30:08
Speaker 1: I'm looking at him like, I love the fact that
30:10
Speaker 1: you have figured it out up until this point enough
30:12
Speaker 1: to know what your discipline should look like because it matters.
30:17
Speaker 1: It really does matter.
30:19
Speaker 2: And honestly, understanding that, that's something I got to myself too, though, like,
30:24
Speaker 2: because I could get discouraged very easily and to not
30:29
Speaker 2: let that be the downfall of what is waiting for
30:35
Speaker 2: you at the other end. Like, I don't know. I'm
30:40
Speaker 2: just thinking about, like, how to overcome discouragement a lot.
30:48
Speaker 1: You just got to build up a spirit. No, for sure.
30:52
Speaker 1: For sure. But it's hard, though. It's hard. I was
30:56
Speaker 1: thinking about that yesterday, too. Like, Man, a lot of
30:58
Speaker 1: times when I'm not feeling confident in certain things, it's
31:01
Speaker 1: not myself and me not having a confidence. It's there.
31:04
Speaker 1: It's what I'm allowing from feeling discouraged and, like, having
31:09
Speaker 1: to hear through the discouragement. And, you know, like, everything
31:13
Speaker 1: looks different when things are, like, not going exactly the
31:17
Speaker 1: way you want. It looks different. It feels different. It
31:19
Speaker 1: hears different because our emotions are telling us that, like,
31:23
Speaker 1: it's the opposite side of the coin.
31:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.
31:26
Speaker 1: It's hard to see the glass half full. It is very,
31:28
Speaker 1: very hard. But I think, you know, eventually, and prayerfully,
31:34
Speaker 1: everybody gets to the point where, you know, you lock
31:36
Speaker 1: in with whatever that discipline and, you know, spiritual journey
31:39
Speaker 1: is for you. And it, I mean, you just, even
31:42
Speaker 1: if it don't ever happen, because nothing is perfect. Like,
31:46
Speaker 1: even if it doesn't, even if you are 100% feeling
31:51
Speaker 1: fulfilled in what you do or feeling like you understand
31:53
Speaker 1: what your pivot should be or you know able to
31:56
Speaker 1: battle the discouragement or the comments or whatever like at
32:01
Speaker 1: least you got somebody doing it with you like at
32:02
Speaker 1: least you know like all right I need to have
32:04
Speaker 1: a real conversation with somebody about this and I know
32:06
Speaker 1: that I can go to somebody who like knows me
32:08
Speaker 1: for real for real because like on an up and
32:11
Speaker 1: up like God is like, he's, he's like here. And
32:17
Speaker 1: it's like, for real, like how dare I ever act
32:22
Speaker 1: like that's not like the lives that we are living
32:24
Speaker 1: until that literally like everybody listening to this podcast, there
32:27
Speaker 1: is something you woke up today and were able to
32:29
Speaker 1: do that somebody else wasn't able to do. Yeah. And
32:32
Speaker 1: how dare you allow things to stop you in the
32:36
Speaker 1: way of that when, but God, and I think that that's,
32:41
Speaker 1: people feel that energy and I think people aspire to
32:44
Speaker 1: that because it's not always the easiest thing to do
32:48
Speaker 1: it's not especially in hard times you know I saw
32:52
Speaker 1: a tweet from Young Thug this morning that I want
32:55
Speaker 1: to mention I had reported a story about Lil Durk
32:58
Speaker 1: and Lil Durk is currently fighting a murder for hire
33:01
Speaker 1: charge in LA following the passing of honestly an individual
33:09
Speaker 1: who was kind of like caught up in I would
33:11
Speaker 1: say like Crossfire or Crawled Up in the Mayhem of
33:13
Speaker 1: the Things. There was a music artist named King Vine
33:17
Speaker 1: that was killed some years ago that was very close
33:20
Speaker 1: with music artist Lil Durk. Now, the Murder for Hire trial,
33:23
Speaker 1: just for background for you guys, and I'll explain why
33:26
Speaker 1: I'm going here in a second, because you're like, how
33:27
Speaker 1: we get from God to Murder for Hire? But for background,
33:32
Speaker 1: King Vine and Lil Durk were very, very close. He
33:34
Speaker 1: was coming up under him in music. And Dirk is
33:38
Speaker 1: currently on trial because the prosecution of the government, uh,
33:41
Speaker 1: believes that, or is alleging that Dirk paid and orchestrated, um,
33:47
Speaker 1: like a get back, like retaliation for the murder for
33:50
Speaker 1: music artist King Vine. Um, and during that attempted retaliation
33:55
Speaker 1: at another music artist, uh, the young music artist who
33:58
Speaker 1: goes by the name of Kondo Rondo, another rapper, there
34:01
Speaker 1: was a person, a cousin, a family member of that
34:03
Speaker 1: artist that was shot and killed. Um, And there's been
34:07
Speaker 1: so much conversation around this trial and, you know, who's
34:10
Speaker 1: on the stand saying what and doing what. And, you know,
34:14
Speaker 1: following the trial for me, it's just been a back
34:16
Speaker 1: and forth of like, what is Dirk's fate about to be?
34:20
Speaker 1: Like you have this music artist who the government is
34:24
Speaker 1: alleging threw it all away for some retaliation. And then,
34:27
Speaker 1: you know, on the other side, you have his defense
34:30
Speaker 1: that is saying, this is only happening to me because
34:32
Speaker 1: of my success. And I'm a person you can point
34:35
Speaker 1: a finger at. And in the middle of that, you
34:38
Speaker 1: have all of us that are watching this and trying
34:39
Speaker 1: to figure out, like, okay, what's going to happen? Is
34:42
Speaker 1: he going to beat it? Is he not going to
34:44
Speaker 1: beat it? Who's going to stay in the day? What
34:46
Speaker 1: are they saying? How is his defense team responding? But
34:49
Speaker 1: Young Thug tweeted something, because I reported a story about
34:52
Speaker 1: Drake and Drake helping Little Dirk pay for attorneys through
34:55
Speaker 1: this battle. Young Thug tweeted out this morning. He said,
35:00
Speaker 1: y'all be best friends. He said, best friends are on
35:05
Speaker 1: the stand. He's talking about Dirk's best friends because a
35:06
Speaker 1: lot of the people that Dirk came up with are
35:08
Speaker 1: testifying against him. Best friends are on the stand saying
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Speaker 1: he did serious things and put lying in quotation marks.
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Speaker 1: And y'all are asking blogs who paid for lawyers, laugh
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Speaker 1: out loud. If I didn't say he was my brother,
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Speaker 1: my lawyer wouldn't even have took the case. I sent
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Speaker 1: Brian to get with him and take the case. Stop
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Speaker 1: making me the bad guy and pray harder for him
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Speaker 1: because I am. Now, this whole mix-up of paying for lawyers,
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Speaker 1: not paying for lawyers, Brian Still is a really famed attorney.
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Speaker 1: He actually was a part of Diddy's defense team. He
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Speaker 1: worked with Young Thug when Young Thug was on trial
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Speaker 1: for the Rico case with YSL, which was one of
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Speaker 1: the longest standing cases in Georgia state history, and Young
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Speaker 1: Thug beat that case partly and mostly, not even partly,
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Speaker 1: but thanks to Brian Still as his defense attorney. This
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Speaker 1: whole back and forth, to me, it's just dumb, honestly.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the day... You have a person
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Speaker 1: that's literally... You have a life that was lost, right?
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Speaker 1: Quando Rondo's cousin, his life was lost. He don't get
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Speaker 1: the moments. We talk about being able to be in
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Speaker 1: the moment and appreciate and really live up to what
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Speaker 1: God has put you here for in the moment. He
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Speaker 1: don't get that moment again. You have Dirk who is
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Speaker 1: looking at up the life behind bars, who may not
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Speaker 1: get to live his moments out the way that all
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Speaker 1: of the success would have had you thinking he would
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Speaker 1: if he gets convicted of these charges, right? You got
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Speaker 1: these other young men on the stand... plea deals taken
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Speaker 1: or not they gonna spend some time away you know
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Speaker 1: moments away from their families their daughters everybody young thug
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Speaker 1: has been in that situation been fighting for his life
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Speaker 1: and he's able to honestly see above all the bs
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Speaker 1: like i thought that the tweet i commended him for
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Speaker 1: the tweet because it could have went so many other
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Speaker 1: different ways now don't get me wrong when i reported
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Speaker 1: it it was dirk's team that wanted that cleared up
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Speaker 1: um but either way no matter who it came from
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Speaker 1: I'm reading Young Thug's tweet and I'm like, you know,
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Speaker 1: and people talk about Skillababe and they're like, oh, well,
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Speaker 1: he got shot and now he found God. It don't
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Speaker 1: matter what it takes for you to get to a
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Speaker 1: point where you understand that you don't get these moments,
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Speaker 1: this time that we are wasting on the stupid stuff
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Speaker 1: back and that leaning into your spiritual and your faith
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Speaker 1: is really it. As long as you get there, because
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Speaker 1: once you get there, it's, oh, new level unlocked. And
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Speaker 1: it sounds to me like, Skillababy, well on his way.
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Speaker 1: He's getting there. He's figuring out what that spiritual journey
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Speaker 1: looks like and how it aligns with his day-to-day life
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Speaker 1: as one of the biggest young rappers out here right now.
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Speaker 1: Thug sounds like he's trying to figure it out as well.
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Speaker 1: He is trying to figure it out as well as
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Speaker 1: he works through everything he's had to work through because
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Speaker 1: he spent... A lot of time behind bars fighting for
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Speaker 1: his life. Whatever it is that takes you to get
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Speaker 1: to the point where spirituality and discipline is what you're
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Speaker 1: locking on, I encourage you to do so. Because the
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Speaker 1: reason why people are reacting to that prayer with Scalababy...
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Speaker 1: is number one, I think people are moved and motivated
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Speaker 1: by the words and they just feel the covering and
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Speaker 1: people are longing for something. We all out here longing
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Speaker 1: to feel a void of something. We all, like it
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Speaker 1: happens until we aren't anymore, until we get locked in.
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Speaker 1: But also, I think to see a young black man
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Speaker 1: who comes from nothing, understanding, making the most of what
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Speaker 1: God has given him and that being majorly a second
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Speaker 1: chance at life and doing it in a disciplined way,
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Speaker 1: no matter where he is on a public platform and
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Speaker 1: standing true to that, that's we should all be striving
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Speaker 1: to be like yo this is what i learned and
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Speaker 1: this is this is why i learned it and this
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Speaker 1: is where i'm at with it and using it to
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Speaker 1: encourage other people to do what makes the most sense
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Speaker 1: and a lot of it is spiritually bad young thug
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Speaker 1: yo i'm gonna pray for him glad to hear because
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Speaker 1: old thug that wouldn't have been a conversation. But I
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Speaker 1: think at this time and at this moment, I saw
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Speaker 1: people saying that there's a shift happening in the culture.
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Speaker 1: I believe that. I think that the shift was always here.
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Speaker 1: I think people now, there's so much going on in
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Speaker 1: the world. Yeah. While you're also out here just trying
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Speaker 1: to live, survive, enjoy life and be a good person. And,
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Speaker 1: and even if you're not the best person, you still
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Speaker 1: trying to live and survive that people need something. And God,
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Speaker 1: God has, he's been here. He's been waiting on us.
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Speaker 1: This has been another episode of The Latest with Lorna Rosa, y'all.
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Speaker 1: I tell you guys every single episode, y'all could be
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Speaker 1: anywhere with anybody talking about all of the things. but
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Speaker 1: you guys choose to be right here with me, my lowriders.
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you guys. tuning in, listening. You know,
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Speaker 1: I feel like we took y'all to the pulpit a
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Speaker 1: little bit, but we still stayed in the headlines, though.
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Speaker 1: We still stayed in the headlines. I appreciate you guys.
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Speaker 1: I will be back with my update from the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Open today. And prayerfully, I can make it there, you know,
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Speaker 1: either Thursday or Friday when Serena Williams and Venus play
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Speaker 1: as well, too, because that is going to be historic.
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Speaker 1: And that's a moment I don't want to miss, speaking
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Speaker 1: of moments. I'm Lorna Rosa. I'll catch you guys in
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Speaker 1: my next one.