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Grinding vs. Living + Jay-Z’s Big Move & Exclusive Ray J Goes OFF · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
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Speaker 1: and everybody.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right.
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Speaker 1: It's Lauren Rosa and this is another episode of The
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Speaker 1: Latest with Lauren the Rosa.
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Speaker 2: This is your daily dose of all things.
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Speaker 1: Pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of the conversations that
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Speaker 1: shake the room. Baby already, y'all, So let's get right
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Speaker 1: on into checking in behind the scenes of the Grind.
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Speaker 2: So today checking in behind the scenes of the Grind.
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Speaker 1: I am still feeling the love from the Brown Style
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Speaker 1: magazine feature. I did some photos with the cover of
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Speaker 1: the magazine over on my Instagram Lauren the Rosa everywhere
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Speaker 1: if you aren't following me already. But I did want
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Speaker 1: to just take a minute to talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: about one of the articles that was in the magazine. Now,
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Speaker 1: there were a ton of amazing writers and creators that
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Speaker 1: help with the magazine together, and there was an article
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Speaker 1: in a magazine and it was all about like finding
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Speaker 1: yourself outside of your work and like, you know, as
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Speaker 1: you get older, realizing that like trying to figure out
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Speaker 1: work and life isn't your life purpose. So Vanessa Simmons,
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Speaker 1: the sister of Angela Simmons was a guest contributor in
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Speaker 1: this issue of Brown Style Magazine, the magazine that I
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Speaker 1: was a part of, or that I was the cover
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Speaker 1: star for this month during Women's History Month, featured Vanessa
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Speaker 1: Simmons and like a hundred other women in media that
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Speaker 1: you should know. And the crazy thing about the conversation
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Speaker 1: that she was having was that this is a conversation
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Speaker 1: that I have like almost daily with my boyfriend, and
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Speaker 1: you know, just kind of with myself a little bit
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Speaker 1: because I'm starting to, you know, like now that I'm
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Speaker 1: getting older and I'm establishing career and you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: understanding where and how i want things all inline and
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Speaker 1: fall in place, It's like I have a bit more
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Speaker 1: not a lot, because you know, I'm still new at
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Speaker 1: this and everything is, you know, being established, but I
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Speaker 1: have a bit more time to really, like to really just,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, think about what is life like outside
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Speaker 1: of being at work. And I know it sounds crazy
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Speaker 1: to y'all, maybe that it's kind of crazy to me
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Speaker 1: to have even thought about that, because it's like, I
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Speaker 1: feel like, in order to have such a full life,
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Speaker 1: you're a person who does a lot. You work, you
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Speaker 1: have friends, you have family, you try to just do
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Speaker 1: so much things right. And I've always been a person
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Speaker 1: with a very full life, a lot of friends, a lot.
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Speaker 2: Of experiences, all of the things.
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Speaker 1: But what I've begin to realize in my adult life
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Speaker 1: is that and it's not even just in my adult life.
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Speaker 1: In my adult life as I begin to really care
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Speaker 1: about having a balanced life, Like in the last episode
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Speaker 1: of the Latest with on the Roads, so please go
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Speaker 1: check it out if you have not. I talked to
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Speaker 1: you guys a bit about like praise, worship, taking control
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Speaker 1: of your day, and all of that was just mental
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Speaker 1: exercises and faith and spiritual based exercises to help feel balanced.
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Speaker 1: But there's also things in the physical that you do
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Speaker 1: to help yourself stay balanced that I've never really prioritized
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Speaker 1: because it's always been about I need to do this,
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Speaker 1: I need to get this done.
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Speaker 2: I only got but so much time in the window.
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Speaker 2: And I still feel like all of that is true.
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Speaker 1: My industry and what I do is very out of side,
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Speaker 1: out of mind, but a part of me now understands that,
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Speaker 1: Like I just understand the totality better, Like okay, you
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Speaker 1: go take a walk three days out the week and
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Speaker 1: just learn to take a break that doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Stop your work.
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Speaker 1: It actually makes you stronger and show up stronger because
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Speaker 1: you're able to be more present things like that. So
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Speaker 1: Vanessa Simmons was having a conversation in Brown Style magazine,
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Speaker 1: which is the magazine I was the cover star of
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Speaker 1: this month, and they did a feature whole right up
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Speaker 1: on me as well too. You could check that out
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Speaker 1: at brownstyle dot com.
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Speaker 2: Just to you know.
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Speaker 1: She said she was with her man's side of the
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Speaker 1: family and somebody asked her, like, what do you like
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Speaker 1: to do and like as a hobby, and she couldn't
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Speaker 1: answer the question. And I remember, like there's been so
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Speaker 1: many times, even in interviews, even in that interview, because
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Speaker 1: the tagline of my cover story feature was the brown
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Speaker 1: girl Who's always on her grind and how to live
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Speaker 1: a self life. So you know, even in that interview,
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Speaker 1: they were asking me a lot about like things outside
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Speaker 1: of work, and I'm like, I don't really have, like
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Speaker 1: I work, I love my family, you know, hanging with
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Speaker 1: friends and honestly just sleep and not answer my phone
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Speaker 1: when I'm not at work. That was like one of
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Speaker 1: my like things that that kind of stuck with me,
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Speaker 1: is like I don't really have things that just helped
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Speaker 1: me be balanced. Like this whole livit of balance life
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Speaker 1: thing is so new for me. Vanessa Simmons talked a
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Speaker 1: lot about you know, even at her age. I'm thirty four,
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Speaker 1: she's older than me. I told you guys, she's the
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Speaker 1: older sister too. Angela cements how she is still figuring
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Speaker 1: that out. She says she tried a bunch of different things,
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Speaker 1: pole dancing classes, NASCAR like racing, driving, just so many
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Speaker 1: different things, walks in the park. Then she finally did
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Speaker 1: a painting sip class, not even a class, she did
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Speaker 1: a painting sip just like you know, for birthday or
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Speaker 1: something like that. And she just loved the stillness that
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Speaker 1: she had when she was painting, and that has become
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Speaker 1: something that else she does outside of being a mom
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Speaker 1: and work and just to have her life be balanced.
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Speaker 1: So behind the scenes of the grind, like that's where
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Speaker 1: my mind is today. Like I mean, I know, I
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Speaker 1: don't have like my window is different right like during
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Speaker 1: the especially during the week, like I am doing so
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Speaker 1: much to just stay up to beat and on the beat.
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Speaker 1: Trending news and breaking news is very much that you
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Speaker 1: gotta be on the beat, but at the same time,
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Speaker 1: like now I'm trying to figure out, like in those
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Speaker 1: few moments during the week and those big moments on
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Speaker 1: the weekend, how can I do things that help me
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Speaker 1: to disconnect. And I think I've been doing pretty good
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Speaker 1: about it and not feeling guilty. That's the biggest thing,
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Speaker 1: is like the guilt feeling. So when I'm home with family,
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Speaker 1: not feeling guilty that I'm not watching my phone, watching
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Speaker 1: every you know, moving on Twitter and Instagram and on
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Speaker 1: the dot coms and the media. And then when I'm
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Speaker 1: at work, not feeling guilty that I'm not taking more
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Speaker 1: time for myself or family, doing things like going to
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Speaker 1: bed early on nights where I feel tired, which is
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Speaker 1: something I would never do because i would just always
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Speaker 1: be so nervous and I'm not going to be prepared.
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Speaker 1: Doing those small things like that have been kind of
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Speaker 1: like just the small steps that I'm taking to kind
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Speaker 1: of learn and understand balance. Taking a Sunday where I'm like,
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Speaker 1: all right, the first few hours of the day I
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Speaker 1: dedicate to like breakfast or you know, like waking up
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Speaker 1: with Bay, like just honestly spending some time just doing
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Speaker 1: nothing and church on a routine. It just feels good
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Speaker 1: then once you hop it back into work and prepare
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Speaker 1: for that Monday. So you know, those are some things
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Speaker 1: that I'm thinking about in you know, just figuring out.
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Speaker 2: And I've never even thought.
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Speaker 1: About stuff like because I'm not an athlete, you know,
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Speaker 1: but like even like things that just get you, like
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Speaker 1: physically moving as you get older are important. And the
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Speaker 1: other day when I was reading the magazine, I was
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Speaker 1: in the hearsalone, I was reading, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: you know what, because I do enjoy like being outside,
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Speaker 1: being in Like I love walks, I love like That's
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Speaker 1: one thing I loved about LA was being able to
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Speaker 1: just go to the beach and sit and walk, you know,
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Speaker 1: be in nature. Because I do love that and I
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Speaker 1: feel the replenishment of it.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, what if we.
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Speaker 1: Did like bike riding, which is easy to say in
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Speaker 1: New York as it warms up, but it's like when
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Speaker 1: it gets freezing cold outside, girl, what are you going
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Speaker 1: to do?
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Speaker 2: But I'm figuring it out, y'all, one day at a time.
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Speaker 2: I'm figuring it out.
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Speaker 1: I'm just proud of myself for even thinking about stuff
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Speaker 1: like this. I remember Taylor, who works for Black Effects
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Speaker 1: tailor made it. She said to me one time we
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Speaker 1: were having a conversation and I couldn't really answer her
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Speaker 1: when she asked me, what do I do to kind
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Speaker 1: of like take a break? And she was like, you know,
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Speaker 1: for herself because she's a new mom. She's editing, you know,
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Speaker 1: the latest with learn the podcast Bringing Idiots, which is
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Speaker 1: with Charlamagnea, Andrew Schulton, you know, so many other Black
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Speaker 1: Effect podcasts. She was like, girl, sometimes it's something that
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Speaker 1: small is just dedicating my like twenty minutes to myself
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Speaker 1: to do my night routine, watch my face be in
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Speaker 1: the mirror, put my skin witch roser on, play my
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Speaker 1: music like twenty minutes and it does so much more
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Speaker 1: for me as I rest that night in the following morning.
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Speaker 1: So behind the scenes to grind today, I'm thinking more
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Speaker 1: about what is the totality of everything and how can
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Speaker 1: I show up like in a way that is full,
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Speaker 1: like you know, at what I'm doing at work, but
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Speaker 1: also like dedicating that same time and energy to like
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Speaker 1: showing up for myself outside of it all. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: now let's get on into the latest. So, speaking of
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Speaker 1: showing up, I told you guys jay Z was up
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Speaker 1: to something I've been telling you guy for two months
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Speaker 1: now that jay Z is up to something with jay
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Speaker 1: Z and Beyonce.
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Speaker 2: You really have to pay attention to the signs.
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Speaker 1: So it is the thirtieth year anniversary of jay Z's
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Speaker 1: Reasonable Doubt, which is his debut album.
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Speaker 2: That is what put him on the map.
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Speaker 1: Right in the last episode of The Latest with One
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Speaker 1: on the Rosa, I gave you guys, you know, some
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Speaker 1: background information about jay Z changing his name on streaming
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Speaker 1: services and everything that led to the announcement that he
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Speaker 1: was going to be headlining the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: this year. But now jay Z has just announced via
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Speaker 1: Rock Nation that he is going to be too doing
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Speaker 1: two historic nights to celebrate the iconic album's Reasonable Doubt
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Speaker 1: in the Blueprint.
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Speaker 2: So it'll be jay.
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Speaker 1: Z thirty, which is Reasonable Doubt, which is the night
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Speaker 1: where he'll be featuring Reasonables out on Friday, July tenth,
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Speaker 1: and then jay Z twenty five on Saturday July eleventh
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Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium here in New York. Because I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: be honest with you, when they announced, you know, the
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Speaker 1: whole Roots Picnic and everything that was going down, go
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Speaker 1: and go down there. I'm like, yo, that is gonna
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Speaker 1: be It's gonna be lit, but roots picnic, hold all
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Speaker 1: these people, yo, like it is gonna be insane. Like
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Speaker 1: it's literally gonna be insane because it. Jay Z hasn't
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Speaker 1: been on stage, not in a real like tour fully out,
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Speaker 1: pop out way since twenty seventeen or four for four
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Speaker 1: and then he did some dates you know, with on
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Speaker 1: the Run too with Beyonce, and yes we've seen him
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Speaker 1: at the Renaissance.
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Speaker 2: Tour and you know, but that wasn't his stage.
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Speaker 1: Like that was like, people are going to look forward
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Speaker 1: to this, They're about to travel in from all types
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Speaker 1: of countries and places and crevices of everything. But now
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Speaker 1: there are some more dates in the rock Nation posts
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Speaker 1: that list these dates says stay tuned, so there's gonna
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Speaker 1: be some more announced.
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Speaker 2: I think we might get a Beyonce pop out. I
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Speaker 2: don't know though, because she has nothing to do with
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Speaker 2: either of those albums or you know, those eras of
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Speaker 2: his life. But I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I just feel like Jays and Beyonce are so crafty.
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Speaker 1: I'm always looking forward to just anything with them, and
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Speaker 1: I got to make it one of these shows.
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Speaker 2: We low Riders.
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Speaker 1: We have to make it to one of these shows
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Speaker 1: so I can bring you guys some live coverage. I
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Speaker 1: don't know from which one, but we're gonna figure it
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Speaker 1: out now. In other news talking about live coverage, figuring
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Speaker 1: things out, ray J. Ray J gave me a call yesterday,
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Speaker 1: Brandy's brother, Okay, gave me a call yesterday. He was
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Speaker 1: upset at Cameron, Mace and Shine for a conversation they
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Speaker 1: had on It Is What It Is, which is Cameron
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Speaker 1: and Mason's show that they do with Treasure Wilson, because
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Speaker 1: of these comments that they made about Brandy dating Mace
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Speaker 1: and Shine.
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Speaker 2: Let's sick a listen.
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Speaker 3: What happened with Brandy and everything. Let's just do it.
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Speaker 3: You know what, you was dating Brandy at one time
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Speaker 3: or you was just how to go?
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Speaker 4: I was special, you know he and wanted to be.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, let him be special? No, no, lie?
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Speaker 2: So he was.
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Speaker 3: He was shocked.
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Speaker 4: Okay, he was the he was the champion, He was
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Speaker 4: the m v P. I was Kobe No pun intended,
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Speaker 4: because they said Kobe was a special friend of Brandy's
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Speaker 4: as well, but no pun intended. But I was coming
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Speaker 4: out of high school on the championship team, and he
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Speaker 4: was the superstar of the team. But I definitely did
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Speaker 4: want to be special. I definitely.
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Speaker 1: Look as a woman, it's always annoying to sit and
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Speaker 1: watch men do the whole locker room talk and talk
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Speaker 1: about women, and they did women.
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Speaker 2: And had sex with like, you know, all of the things.
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Speaker 1: But I feel like as women were also so used
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Speaker 1: to it happening, especially in hip hop, that you kind
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Speaker 1: of like conditioned in, like your condition to just be like,
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Speaker 1: all right, they're annoying, but like whatever, move on.
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Speaker 2: But regy Jae was pissed off. Ray J saw this.
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Speaker 1: He saw that like the laughing, the giggling and joking,
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Speaker 1: and he didn't appreciate it. He had a lot of
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Speaker 1: things to say a lot of things which we will
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Speaker 1: have to bleep in this conversation, but his main point
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Speaker 1: was that he goes off and goes in for his sister. Okay,
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Speaker 1: don't play with him about Brandy. Let's take a listen
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Speaker 1: to some of the things regy j had to say
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Speaker 1: in the phone call with me. Did you talk to
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Speaker 1: Brady about it?
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Speaker 5: I didn't even see that, yo, Lauren. I didn't even
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Speaker 5: see the interview. I looked online. I saw them niggas
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Speaker 5: laughing and shit, and that's all I needed to see.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 5: It didn't even take me five minutes ago. Y'all niggas
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Speaker 5: is some whole ass niggas and cheap suits. Mace looking
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Speaker 5: like he from the Simpsons, and Cameron looked like he
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Speaker 5: just had a stroke. And now he came back off
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Speaker 5: of it because that bottom lip ain't moving correctly, right,
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Speaker 5: But I'm gonna have it moving world correctly when he's
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Speaker 5: sucking my hands on your knees, nigga, I want to
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Speaker 5: threesome with all in whole ass niggas sitting on their
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Speaker 5: fucking knees.
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Speaker 2: Sucking my I just I mean, okay, I get what
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Speaker 2: you upset? Like you know I'm talking about.
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Speaker 5: Y'all gonna get period, y'all gonna get everything y'all needed
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Speaker 5: to get done because y'all niggas acting like holes all
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Speaker 5: y'all doing.
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Speaker 1: And let me tell y'all, when reg Ja called, he
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Speaker 1: was so upset. I did this interview from the car
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Speaker 1: like I pulled over, did this interview via zoom from
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Speaker 1: the car. As you can tell, a lot of it
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Speaker 1: was very vulgar, so I didn't know how much of
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Speaker 1: it we could even air or play here on the podcast,
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Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club, like anywhere, to be honest with y'all.
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Speaker 1: But I was just like, all right, if anybody it
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Speaker 1: can speak on Brandy's behalf or not even on her behalf,
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Speaker 1: but in defense of her, it's him, So let me
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Speaker 1: pull over.
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Speaker 2: Has had this conversation and down here we are.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: This conversation has sparked a lot of like is ray
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Speaker 1: J wrong?
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Speaker 2: Where the commons is respectful or not?
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Speaker 1: Kim and Mace have not officially responded, but there is
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Speaker 1: what it is. Instagram have been posting things. They posted
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Speaker 1: a video ra Je get inspect in his face. They
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Speaker 1: posted a video of Kim and Mace laughing like I
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Speaker 1: thought somebody said something. But Seine has more directly responded.
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Speaker 1: He posted a photo with Brandy and ray J. He
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Speaker 1: put the song I Hit It First by ray J,
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Speaker 1: which is a song that ray J made about Kim
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Speaker 1: Kardashian and having sex with her. And you know, when
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Speaker 1: you look into that post, because ray J called Cameron
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Speaker 1: a hypocrite, right when you look into that post, it's
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Speaker 1: like Seane calling ray J a hypocrite as well too,
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Speaker 1: because it's like, okay, you're seeing what we can't talk
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Speaker 1: about and how we can't talk You made a whole
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Speaker 1: song about the sex that you had with a woman,
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Speaker 1: and and how funny it was. Right in the comment,
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Speaker 1: I mean, in the caption that that was posted on
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Speaker 1: Seine's photo. When he posted it, he said, let's be
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Speaker 1: let the record reflect. I did not hit it first,
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Speaker 1: most respectfully. And then he's talking about the show that
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Speaker 1: he's having on May second, Brooklyn, So he's talking about
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Speaker 1: the fact that, like, I mean, if we gonna, if
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go back and forth. I didn't you you
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Speaker 1: put this energy out there about a woman first. But
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know Sean has been having conversations about
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Speaker 1: Brady and him dating, and he's done it on the
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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, he's mentioned it in the documentary. I didn't
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Speaker 1: feel like those conversations were out of line. I okay,
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Speaker 1: so it it was twofold. One part of me was like,
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Speaker 1: I don't like it when men named drop it's just corny.
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Speaker 1: Another part of me was like, I understand why he's
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Speaker 1: telling this story because it fits into the overall story
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Speaker 1: that he was telling about just being this like man
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Speaker 1: with this the ego was too big and Brandy had
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Speaker 1: to get on together.
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Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to that story, y'all. Let me
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Speaker 2: know what y'all think though, is y J Wright? Is
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Speaker 2: ray J wrong? Do we even care who hit it first?
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Speaker 1: And why are men still having this conversation at these
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Speaker 1: big ages?
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Speaker 2: Y'all keep me posted, let me know. I'm going on the.
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Speaker 1: Rosa everywhere on social take it to the streets, in
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Speaker 1: the tweets.
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Speaker 2: I wanna hear from you, guys.
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Speaker 1: That has been another episode of the Latest with gon
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Speaker 1: To Rosa.
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Speaker 2: I tell you, guys, every single.
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Speaker 1: Episode, y'all could be anywhere with any old body, but
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Speaker 1: y'all choose to be right here with me, my low riders.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, guys, and I will see you in
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Speaker 1: my next episode.