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Drake Said Keep the Grammys, Rihanna Keeps Teasing Us · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 2: we had on The Breakfast Club recently, Deshaun Jackson, who
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  Speaker 2: is the head football coach at Delaware State University. It
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  Speaker 2: was a big deal when Deshaun Jackson actually said yes
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  Speaker 1: With to work with our HBCU.
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  Speaker 2: and wit and strategy to make it to the NFL
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  Speaker 2: as well. Delaware State University has been Impactful to me
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  Speaker 2: in like the life space of it. I wasn't an
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  Speaker 2: athlete in school, but I can only imagine being an
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  Speaker 2: athlete and having one of the greatest in the sport
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  Speaker 2: come back and be your day to day mentor and
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  Speaker 2: you figure out career choices.
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  Speaker 1: But also the actual game of it, the practice, the playing.
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  Speaker 2: And I say career because nowadays, by the time these
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  Speaker 2: kids are in college, it's a full-blown career.
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  Speaker 1: They're making NIL money.
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  Speaker 2: They are living and fully providing for people that they
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  Speaker 2: love if they're doing it the right way, just off
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  Speaker 2: of the fact that there is platform and attention there
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  Speaker 2: around the sport that they love and the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they play. So I'm always down to support Delaware State
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  Speaker 2: University in any regard.
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  Speaker 1: It's our homecoming weekend.
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  Speaker 2: We kicking off homecoming week with this conversation, but I'm 100%, 100%
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  Speaker 2: here for representation and what that means, especially as a
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  Speaker 2: person who graduated from HBCU and who understands how it
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  Speaker 2: changes your life to have people come back on campus.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always back on my campus. So I'm kicking that
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  Speaker 2: off tonight in conversation with Deshaun Jackson and his brother,
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  Speaker 2: Byron Jackson. They have the documentary called Go Deep. Now
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  Speaker 2: the Go Deep documentary is about Deshaun Jackson's It's not
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  Speaker 2: even in full, honestly. They shot 35 years of footage
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  Speaker 2: and put it into.
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  Speaker 1: This is part one, we'll say.
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  Speaker 2: No other parts have been announced, but I say this
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  Speaker 2: is part one because you have 35 years of raw
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  Speaker 2: footage that his brother shot.
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of.
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  Speaker 2: Them growing up, because he's older, them growing up, Deshaun
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  Speaker 2: with some meaningful and powerful conversations today. And this event
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  Speaker 1: So, yes.
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  Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool to be a part. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: into the latest though.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about being a part because somebody who wants
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  Speaker 2: no parts right now reportedly is Drake. So there are
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  Speaker 2: a ton of reports out and, you know, I referenced
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  Speaker 2: the Rolling Stone one in a lot of my research
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  Speaker 2: and things that I look at because I just, I
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  Speaker 2: love how Rolling Stone is so detailed in all of
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  Speaker 2: their reporting and their write-ups. Drake is reportedly not submitting
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  Speaker 2: any of his three albums that he just dropped. That
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  Speaker 2: is Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honor, which were Charting hits,
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  Speaker 2: especially Iceman, was all over the charts. It took over
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  Speaker 2: the summer. Will not be submitting them to the Grammys
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  Speaker 2: this year for any consideration from 2026 at all. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is not the first time that Drake has done this.
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  Speaker 2: He is known to boycott the institution. OK, he's been
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  Speaker 2: nominated so many times.
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  Speaker 1: Let me look that up. Oh yeah. So Drake has
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  Speaker 1: only won five Grammys.
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  Speaker 2: His first win was for best rap album for take
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  Speaker 2: care in 2013. Um, he won best melodic rap performance
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  Speaker 2: for wait for you with future and Tim's at.
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  Speaker 1: The 2023 Grammy, uh, ceremony.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but you know, it's, it's very well known that
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  Speaker 2: he has not submitted and has frequently chosen to not submit, um,
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  Speaker 2: for various Grammy years. Now, I talked about the amount
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  Speaker 2: of nominations. He's been nominated over 50 times. He's been
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  Speaker 2: nominated 51 times, but it's only taken home, according to reports,
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  Speaker 2: according to actually, yeah, five Grammys. Yep. And the albums
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  Speaker 2: are eligible, too. That's another thing. You have to drop
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  Speaker 2: music within a certain time for it to be eligible.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not that, like, he can't.
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  Speaker 1: He's eligible.
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  Speaker 2: He just doesn't want to. But he did this in
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  Speaker 2: 2018 with More Life. He withdrew the submission for Certified
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  Speaker 2: Loverboy in 2022, and then, well, honestly, never mind, the
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  Speaker 2: following year he did the same. Now, his joint album
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  Speaker 2: with 21 Savage, Her Loss, was actually submitted for the
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  Speaker 2: 2024 Grammys, but it lost Best Rap Album to Killer
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  Speaker 2: Mike's Michael. I'm not upset at Drake. I'm really not
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  Speaker 2: upset at Drake. I think with Drake... and everybody has
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  Speaker 2: their own narratives and feelings about the boy. That's what
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  Speaker 2: he calls himself, the boy. And some of the things
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  Speaker 2: that he chooses to do. But I think Drake comes
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  Speaker 2: from that school. And I honestly feel like my generation
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  Speaker 2: was the last generation of it.
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  Speaker 1: And he's, you know, a bit older than me. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like where we stand, it's like, we were like, right.
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  Speaker 2: Like we were on the internet, but we were also
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  Speaker 2: in real life. It's like, we have one foot in
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  Speaker 2: one foot out. And I think even though Drake's not
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  Speaker 2: this like hood rapper type, I'm outside pull up on
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  Speaker 2: me like that is that that's not how I think
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  Speaker 2: of a drink. And I think that that's why he
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  Speaker 2: gets a lot of conversation around, you know, when he
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  Speaker 2: switches in and out of like the different accents and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's from Canada, you know, so it's there
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  Speaker 2: because people are always trying to figure out what is
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  Speaker 2: it that he attaches himself to?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like because he sits.
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  Speaker 2: In between that phase of Internet and outside and having
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  Speaker 2: to really figure things out in a real way, no
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  Speaker 2: matter who supported it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Cause Drake was the come up kid.
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  Speaker 2: Like Drake was really mixtapes and doing so much to
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  Speaker 2: get on. And then it finally hit and he took
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  Speaker 2: advantage of the opportunity because of that. I think that
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  Speaker 2: there's always going to be something instilled in him where
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  Speaker 2: it's like, even if you don't support it the right way,
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  Speaker 2: champion it the right way, I'm here. At least I
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  Speaker 2: feel like that's the moniker that like early Drake has
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  Speaker 2: had more recently. I know when he did, um, too
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  Speaker 2: hard for the radio, um, Love that song, first of all.
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  Speaker 2: That was one of my favorites off of Iceman. But
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  Speaker 2: the Too Hard for the Radio song, and then there's
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  Speaker 2: some other songs on Iceman as well where he's talking
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  Speaker 2: about basically not getting radio play. I'm like, when did
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  Speaker 2: Drake go from, if you with me, you with me,
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  Speaker 2: if you not, you not, but I'm still him? to
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  Speaker 2: this person because number one Drake is played all over
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  Speaker 2: the dang radio like Drake especially Iceman Janice shut the
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  Speaker 2: F up ran the radio too hard for the radio
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  Speaker 2: was being played on the radio as well too Drake
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  Speaker 2: runs the radio all the time whenever he drops Nokia
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  Speaker 2: when he dropped right after the Kendrick Lamar situation the
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  Speaker 2: beef with Kendrick Lamar ran the radio there was a
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  Speaker 2: lot of other conversations around him and narratives especially when
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  Speaker 2: Not Like Us went on to win all of those
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  Speaker 2: Grammys I believe it was five in 2025 Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was five Grammys in 2025, which you know, Drake references
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  Speaker 2: a moment from that award show in his lawsuit against
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  Speaker 2: Universal Music, you know, and talks about just how the
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  Speaker 2: song was able to be platformed, right? I understand that
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  Speaker 2: eventually as an artist, there's a shift that happens. Not
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  Speaker 2: with everybody, but with some artists where you become a
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  Speaker 2: bit jaded from your experience. it's weird because I think
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to institutions and systems and Drake fighting
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  Speaker 2: back against them, he's jaded, but he's like, not, I
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  Speaker 2: think when we see him sit down and like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: lean into like all the streamers and remind us that
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  Speaker 2: he comes from this like very sketchy, awkward actor, Degrassi
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  Speaker 2: kid who just, you know, became this mega star rapper.
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  Speaker 2: That is him going against the system because as a
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  Speaker 2: rapper and, You know, it's the toughness is I'm hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's Drake has always gone against the grain to certain extents.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Like there was just melody in his music. He
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  Speaker 2: features a lot of new and up and coming artists
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  Speaker 2: even before the world even fully understands what those.
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  Speaker 1: Artists mean to the genre. A lot of new artists.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing the same thing with the streamers.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's his way of trying to signal to
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  Speaker 2: that talent and young talent early on.
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  Speaker 1: F the institutions.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need them. Your success is not riddled on that.
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  Speaker 2: But that's why I'm always confused with songs and things
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  Speaker 2: like Not Too Hard for the Radio, Drop, where he's
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  Speaker 2: talking about being banned from radio, essentially, which is not
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  Speaker 2: the case.
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  Speaker 1: Drake is all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I will say, I do think that Drake would
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  Speaker 2: have been a very strong contender this year for the Grammys. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the official Recording Academy announcements will not happen until November
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  Speaker 2: 16 2026 for the grammy so we don't know who
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  Speaker 2: is actually nominated for things but there are a few
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  Speaker 2: people that you know people have begin having conversations and
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  Speaker 2: expect some submissions from in conversation around uh j cole
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  Speaker 2: the fall off um asap rocky don't be dumb cardi
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  Speaker 2: b am i the drama cardi worked hard this year
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  Speaker 2: kanye west um.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't wait bully wasn't that bully When did Bully come out? Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Kanye did drop Bully this year. It was like the, wow,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's so crazy.
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  Speaker 2: All of the drama surrounding Kanye was makes you forget
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  Speaker 2: that that was even, and also too, it just took
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  Speaker 2: him forever to finally put the dang album out.
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  Speaker 1: Don Tolliver, too.
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  Speaker 2: Don Tolliver has been at the top of everybody's expectation
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  Speaker 2: and nomination list this year. Like, he has been going, going, going.
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  Speaker 2: I know that Drake is a huge supporter of Don Tolliver.
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  Speaker 2: Don Tolliver actually brought Drake out in Canada recently.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen. That was a cool moment. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Drake supporting... Don Tolliver's not up and coming. He's there.
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  Speaker 1: But Drake supporting artists where it really matters.
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  Speaker 2: That's why, you know, I think, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: for some reason... There has been this, like, if you
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  Speaker 2: like Kendrick Lamar and you were honest about what happened
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  Speaker 2: with Not Like Us, you gotta not like Drake.
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  Speaker 1: I like Drake as an artist. I like Drake and
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  Speaker 1: the movement that he's created.
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  Speaker 2: I understand some of the decisions that he's made around
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  Speaker 2: certain things, for instance, like the one we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: right now. But I do think that there are certain
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  Speaker 2: moments and points where I'm like, when did we lose
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  Speaker 2: the Drizzy Drake who understood who he was and what
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  Speaker 2: he meant to music? I think it's there, but I
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  Speaker 2: think all of the other stuff and the noise, especially
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  Speaker 2: that rap battle, has really jaded that a bit. Especially when,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we continue to get songs about who did
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  Speaker 2: and did not support him during that rap battle. At
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, Nokia still did what it
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  Speaker 2: did all over the charts in the midst of all
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  Speaker 2: of that comeback story.
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  Speaker 1: And I even come back like Drake never had to
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  Speaker 1: come back. He never went nowhere. He just lost the battle.
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  Speaker 2: Even the headlines around him not submitting the Grammys. People
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  Speaker 2: are like, well, you know, Kendrick Lamar won five Grammys
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  Speaker 2: for Not Like Us last year. That's probably why. I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 2: Drake has been on some. I don't need the institutions.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all don't see me correctly anyway. We'll see what happens, though.
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  Speaker 2: This is all reported. I did reach out for an
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  Speaker 2: official comment from Drake's team.
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  Speaker 1: Crickets, silence. I'll let you know if anything updates.
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  Speaker 2: Now, speaking of music, my girl Rihanna is teasing us
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  Speaker 2: yet again because Rihanna is having a conversation about music,
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  Speaker 2: unreleased music. I think people always want to talk to
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  Speaker 2: Rihanna about certain things. It's just how we go about
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  Speaker 2: the world. We go about the world. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: about you guys, but on the media side of things,
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  Speaker 2: there's two things you want to know from Rihanna.
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  Speaker 1: Who you wearing and when is the music coming?
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  Speaker 2: Period. Those are the questions top of mind when talking
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  Speaker 2: to Rihanna. So Rihanna was doing a TikTok live for
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  Speaker 2: her Fenty Beauty brand. And during the live stream, here's
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  Speaker 2: what she was asked.
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  Speaker 1: How many unreleased songs are you sitting on?
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  Speaker 2: Ooh! Ooh! Chat! Chat! Yeah!
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  Speaker 1: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Is there ten songs products in a vault.
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  Speaker 2: Then i have at least at least 17 volts 10
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  Speaker 2: products in the vault at least 17 volts that's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of damn music 170 that's almost 200 songs not
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  Speaker 2: my surprise it has been years since rihanna dropped an
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  Speaker 2: album Rihanna hasn't dropped an album since Auntie in 2016.
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  Speaker 2: That was her eighth studio album. You guys will, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: on that soundtrack, but an actual album we have not
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  Speaker 2: gotten since 2016. Now, it said Rocky, it said Rihanna
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  Speaker 2: got the music, it's there, she working on some things.
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  Speaker 2: Rihanna dropped like a behind the scenes, almost like documentary
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  Speaker 2: style clip where she talked about the fact that.
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  Speaker 1: She was in the studio. So, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: She's working, it's there. I just don't know when we're
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  Speaker 1: getting it.
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  Speaker 2: And to be honest with you, and I say this
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: every single time I talk about this, I don't know
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: what a Rihanna sounds like today.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Rihanna is a mother. Now, she, I mean, Fenty is huge.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: She's a billionaire, estimated net worth of approximately $ 1 billion,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: anywhere from $ 1 billion to $ 1. 4 billion, according to Investopedia, okay?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: And a large part of that, I mean, you have,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: it breaks down into three things. Her sources of wealth
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: are Fenty Beauty. That is her primary source of wealth.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: She has a 50% stake in her cosmetics brands that
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: she owns with LVMH. LVMH, they also do all of
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: the luxury cognacs and Louis Vuitton.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: There's a lot that is housed under that.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Now, there have been reports for some months that Jay-Z
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: and his Ventures brand are going to be coming to
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: buy out LVMH when it comes to the 50% that
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: they own of Rihanna's Fenty. And Actually, yesterday, there was
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: a report that was saying that they are nearing the
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: close of that and it's actually going to happen and
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: it will be announced in the next upcoming weeks, which
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: is huge. Jay-Z and Rihanna 50-50 on Fenty is huge.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Love to see black people doing that. Y'all talk a
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: lot about capitalism and how it hurts and affects people.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I think if done the right way.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And we get more black people being able to do that,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: like buy out of LVMH to be a part owner
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: of Fenty Beauty where it can be 100% black owned
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: and it trickled down and there's more wealth and more
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: all of that stuff, right? That is how it works well.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: But anyway, I'm saying all that to say with Fenty Beauty,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Savage by Fenty, which is her lingerie line. I also
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: shop there as well, too. I support my girl Rihanna
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: across the board. And in her music catalog and entertainment catalog,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Rihanna don't even need to put out music. Like, I
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: just want to know what her music sounds like today
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: i'm very curious some of my favorite rihanna songs are
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: my favorite because it's like she's fun she's flirty she's
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: sexy she's and she's still all those things but she's
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: even talked about dressing differently like rihanna used to be
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: like damn they're naked okay And then as you learn
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: and as you grow and as you, you know, I mean,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: she's a mother now. It's just, she's talked about even
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: changing the way that she dressed and looking back at
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: certain outfits and, you know, she's just not there anymore.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I wonder what the music will give with that new
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: mind state. We'll just have to wait and see. Or
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: we may never see.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I honestly don't know if we're ever going to get
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: a Rihanna album. I think, and I wouldn't be mad
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: at her about it because a lot of people do
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: music in this way. I think with Rihanna, if we
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: don't get an album, we would get music through various projects, like,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: you know, through more movie endeavors or Fenty Beauty releases
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: as like, you know, the soundtrack or jingle of those releases.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be mad about that. That has been another
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: episode of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I'm talking about
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: all this business and all this coin. Let's go run
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: it up.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I put a special code right here at the end
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: of this podcast just for you guys because I'm so excited.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: About homecoming week.
• 19:40
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• 19:46
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• 19:48
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• 19:52
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• 19:54
  Speaker 1: it is. but it's definitely a little surprise. Let's do it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I'll see you guys at homecoming. For those who I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: won't see, I'll see you in my next couple episodes.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I'm Lana Rosa.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I tell y'all every single episode, y'all could be anywhere
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: with any old body talking about all of the things,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: but you choose to be right here with me, my
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: little riders. I appreciate you, and I'll catch you in
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: my next one.