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The Next Level Looks Different (Brandy and Monica Residency and Druski on SNL) · 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.
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Speaker 2: I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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Speaker 2: and everybody. You hear that exclusive? You know she don't
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Speaker 2: lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey y'all,
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Speaker 2: what's up?
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Speaker 3: It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode of The
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Speaker 3: Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on
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Speaker 3: all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the
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Speaker 3: conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, you know, we
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Speaker 3: start off checking in behind the scenes of The Grind.
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Speaker 2: Let's get to it. Back on the grind.
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Speaker 3: I am exhausted today, y'all. DJ Envy had me out
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Speaker 3: last night until about 1.30 in the morning. Had to
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Speaker 3: be up. My first alarm went off at 4 o'clock.
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Speaker 3: I am literally running off fumes right now. We were
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Speaker 3: out celebrating his daughter, his oldest daughter, Madison's birthday. Every year,
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Speaker 3: I always forget that me and Madison's birthdays are literally, like,
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Speaker 3: weeks apart. Every year when they celebrate, he calls me
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Speaker 3: to invite me. And I'm like, oh, my God, my
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Speaker 3: birthday's coming up. He's like, I know, crazy. But we
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Speaker 3: went out last night. And y'all know that I'm doing
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Speaker 3: my fast. So I literally had one, barely one glass
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Speaker 3: of champagne. The biggest thing is not to overindulge. But
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Speaker 3: barely even did that. But I was proud of myself because...
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Speaker 3: If I had been drinking, I probably would have took
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Speaker 3: a shot or two just because the record room in
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Speaker 3: New York is this club that does all R &
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Speaker 3: B sets, vinyl sets as well, or vinyl sets, all
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Speaker 3: R & B vinyl sets. The DJs can only DJ
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Speaker 3: from real actual records.
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Speaker 2: It's a good time.
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Speaker 3: So I know I would have got lost in the
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Speaker 3: sauce at a good time, 100%. But that's the point
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Speaker 3: right now of this fast. It's teaching me more discipline.
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Speaker 3: Because I feel like right now I just need it.
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Speaker 3: I need some clarity. But we're tired. I came in
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Speaker 3: this morning. I was on time and everything. But your
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Speaker 3: girl is tired and still has some running around to do.
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Speaker 3: I told you guys my mom was here in New
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Speaker 3: York for some testing. Everything went well. First round of testing.
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Speaker 2: We are good. God is good.
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Speaker 3: And my mom was not even like nervous about much
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Speaker 3: per se. I think at one point she was a
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Speaker 3: little nervous, a little scared because, you know, whenever you're
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Speaker 3: having like, you know, things happening with your body or
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Speaker 3: symptoms of things that like are unnormal, you're going to
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Speaker 3: have a lot of questions, especially with like, you know,
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Speaker 3: her background, being a cancer survivor and things of those nature,
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Speaker 3: things of that nature. Anything that comes up that's a
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Speaker 3: little bit out of the ordinary, we don't play about.
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Speaker 3: It's her and my grandmother as well. My grandmother's age
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Speaker 3: is the reason why I do that. But they think
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Speaker 3: I'm always tripping. So I made her do an extra
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Speaker 3: day of like just breathing, testing and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: And all is well. Amen. But let's get on into
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Speaker 2: the latest.
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Speaker 3: So last night, while figuring all the things out with family.
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Speaker 2: I got a phone call.
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Speaker 3: And it was a friend who was like, hey, you know,
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Speaker 3: we have this announcement about to go live. We want
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Speaker 3: you to be a part of the announcement. And I'm like, OK, well,
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Speaker 3: what is it? And they're like, we can't tell you.
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Speaker 3: I got to talk to you closer to like nine,
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Speaker 3: 10 o'clock. And I'm like, OK. But I mean, people
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Speaker 3: call me all the time with exclusive news and embargoed news.
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Speaker 3: Embargo just means that somebody will give me something and
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Speaker 3: they'll say.
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Speaker 2: This can't be talked about until this time.
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Speaker 3: On this date or whatever so that's what it was
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Speaker 3: it was like okay we're gonna give you an announcement
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Speaker 3: it can't go out until this time but i'll call
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Speaker 3: you back and let you know what the announcement is
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Speaker 3: so around that time i get a phone call back
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Speaker 3: and they're telling me about um an announcement that's gonna
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Speaker 3: happen y'all why was it brandy and monica are launching
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Speaker 3: a las vegas residency I did not expect to hear
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Speaker 3: Las Vegas residency and Brandi and Monica. I'm going to
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Speaker 3: be honest with y'all. Not because they don't deserve it.
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Speaker 3: Not because it's not going to be good. It's going
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Speaker 3: to be all of the things above. It is going
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Speaker 3: to be amazing. But to be honest, I really felt
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Speaker 3: like we got all we were going to get with
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Speaker 3: the Boyz Mine Tour. Because it was epic. It was
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Speaker 3: like the reunion of the world. It was Brandi, Monica
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Speaker 3: coming together. It was them telling their story about how
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Speaker 3: everything got all disassociated and disconnected. And them allowing other
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Speaker 3: people to come in the middle of them when they
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Speaker 3: were younger. And like, you know, all the noise and
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Speaker 3: all the chaos. And us seeing them reconnect as grown
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Speaker 3: women with these legendary, iconic careers.
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Speaker 2: Children that are now able to grow up with each other.
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Speaker 3: And just so much they can relate to because they
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Speaker 3: both have been famous literally since they could blink, basically.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And the narrative and the storyline, it's not something that
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Speaker 2: you can make up.
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Speaker 3: This is real. We watched it in real time. We
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Speaker 3: know the story behind the boy is mine. So I
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Speaker 3: thought that once we saw that tour, once we saw
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Speaker 3: the reunion, the friendship is here.
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Speaker 2: It's like, we got it.
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Speaker 3: We got the moment. Y'all, Taylor Gang is here with me.
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Speaker 3: Taylor made it.
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys. You don't agree?
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Speaker 1: But.
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Speaker 4: No, I feel like, why wouldn't people want to see
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Speaker 4: that again?
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Speaker 2: I think people will want to see it again.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think Brandy and Monica could sell out,
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Speaker 3: even if it's not based on the boy is mine
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Speaker 3: and the conversation about them coming back together as these
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Speaker 3: powerhouses in R & B and music and culture. Even
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Speaker 3: if it's not about that, just separately, the amount of
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Speaker 3: iconic hits and decades of songs and music that they have.
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Speaker 3: Of course, people are going to want to come. It's
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Speaker 3: going to do very well. It's going to sell out.
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Speaker 3: There's 10 dates that they are announcing for this residency.
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Speaker 2: I just, I don't know. I felt like, what do
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Speaker 2: you mean when you're saying like, that's all like they
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Speaker 2: gave us around that storyline.
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Speaker 3: Cause I feel like the, so the story around the
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Speaker 3: tour was like forever. The industry kept them apart and
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Speaker 3: made them be at odds and the competition of it all.
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Speaker 3: They come together, they come together enough where they can
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Speaker 3: actually do a tour.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I just thought about it from that storyline perspective, but
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a residency. They can tell so many
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Speaker 3: other stories and there's probably so much more too.
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Speaker 2: So maybe I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'll admit it.
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Speaker 3: Cause there's so much more, like it doesn't have to
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Speaker 3: be like the boy is mine tour. That's what I'm,
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Speaker 3: that's what I'm thinking. It's like, cause a lot of
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Speaker 3: times when, when X practice these tours, right. Or like,
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Speaker 3: I went to go see usher in Vegas way before
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Speaker 3: it like started going super viral. It was still selling out,
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Speaker 3: but it wasn't as viral online and his tour. I mean,
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Speaker 3: his Vegas residency is very similar to when you see
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Speaker 3: his act on stage on tour. Like a lot of,
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Speaker 3: not everything is the same, but the elements are the same.
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Speaker 3: And I think that there will be some of the
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Speaker 3: elements from the Boys Mind tour integrated into the Las
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Speaker 3: Vegas residency, especially for the people who didn't get to
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Speaker 3: see it. But for me, I'm like, I don't know.
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Speaker 3: All the moments were viral. Like I remember the tour
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Speaker 3: from top to bottom. So now it's like, what are like,
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Speaker 3: like what's the, what's the presentation? Like, what are they
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Speaker 3: going to do basically on the stage?
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Speaker 2: Like they had. Cause Micah's not the dancer.
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Speaker 4: Like.
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Speaker 3: But she got but they have so much there because
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Speaker 3: they can only do but so much within the boy's
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Speaker 3: mind because both of them were taking turns back and
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Speaker 3: forth and back and forth.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: So there's so much more musically that we haven't seen
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Speaker 3: from them. But I'm just I guess I'm interested to
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Speaker 3: know what the storyline is around the residency.
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Speaker 2: So, like, for Mary J. Blige, I don't feel like
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Speaker 2: there's a storyline, but I think that there's... I didn't
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Speaker 2: know there was going to be a... I didn't think
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Speaker 2: of a storyline. Or, like, a theme or something. You know, like,
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Speaker 2: I feel like for Mary J.
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Speaker 3: Blige, there isn't one, but at the same time, her
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Speaker 3: music has very much a through line. Like, we know
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Speaker 3: she was going through it. She got up out of it.
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Speaker 3: She's talking herself into loving herself. Now she's loving herself,
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Speaker 3: you know? Like, we know that. With Jeezy, it's the whole,
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Speaker 3: you know, black excellence, the ties, the... You know?
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Speaker 2: Like, I mean, when... Who else was in Vegas?
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Speaker 3: I don't know if everybody has to have that, but
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Speaker 3: they are so, like, they are entertainment for real. They
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Speaker 3: come up in the era of entertainment where, like, you
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Speaker 3: putting on or you ain't doing it at all. So
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Speaker 3: I know that it's going to have that. And they
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Speaker 3: were talking to Good Morning America just about, you know, like,
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Speaker 3: how Brandy is, like, the one that will come up
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Speaker 3: with new ideas for them.
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Speaker 2: Monica's the one that will shop for their clothing.
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Speaker 3: Let's take a listen to that.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I think I just prayed so hard
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Speaker 2: for so long.
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Speaker 5: For us to do residency. I mean, this is a
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Speaker 5: dream come true.
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Speaker 2: It's Vegas.
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Speaker 5: We get a chance to take our Boys Mind Tour
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Speaker 5: to another level and to do it with Monica.
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Speaker 2: It's just gonna be fire.
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Speaker 5: Breathing dragons.
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Speaker 6: Manifestation is real. She talked about it and it became
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Speaker 6: something that was really a part of our reality. And
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Speaker 6: that's what we want kids to do that watch us.
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Speaker 6: Know that you can dream big. Know that you can
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Speaker 6: manifest things. As long as you work towards them, you
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Speaker 6: just gotta believe. And she always believes in us as
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Speaker 6: a team. She believes in our song. It's 30 years
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Speaker 6: old almost, and to this day, to watch crowds singing it,
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Speaker 6: to see us on T-shirts, to see us on billboards,
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Speaker 6: that's so surreal, and we just thank God for it.
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Speaker 5: It's just going to be elevated to a level that
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Speaker 5: I can't really explain here right now, but just know
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Speaker 5: you should get those tickets as soon as you can
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Speaker 5: because it's fire.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be great.
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Speaker 6: And if you miss it, it will just be on you.
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Speaker 6: Because you don't know what we may do next. We
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Speaker 6: may not be there long.
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Speaker 2: We may be there forever. You don't know.
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Speaker 6: You don't know.
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Speaker 3: And I was listening to that driving in, and I
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Speaker 3: was like, dang, like, what is the story that they
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Speaker 3: tell at the residency? And I know that there's so
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Speaker 3: much more they can tell, but what is it? And
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Speaker 3: I was only focused on the boys' mom, but there
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Speaker 3: is so much more.
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Speaker 4: You know what they could do though too uh because
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Speaker 4: i don't know if they i don't remember them doing
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Speaker 4: on the tour they could really bring back old um
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Speaker 4: like videos of themselves like the opening of it you
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Speaker 4: know i mean like.
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Speaker 3: That's what i'm saying man they have their careers and
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Speaker 3: they were so young when they started there's probably so
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Speaker 3: much that they want to express about those time periods
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Speaker 3: that they didn't even have the the emotional know-how to
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Speaker 3: express that, and they were just in it and young
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Speaker 3: and performing and doing, you know?
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Speaker 2: Like, I'm excited about that as well, too. But the
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Speaker 2: tickets for— Honestly— Oh, sorry. Go ahead.
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Speaker 4: I was going to say, honestly, I want Brandy to
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Speaker 4: bring out some of the, like— Damn, but she's not
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Speaker 4: here either.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say, like, the— Who's not here?
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Speaker 2: Whitney Houston.
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Speaker 3: I was like, I would love for them to, like—
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Speaker 3: that would have been an amazing right so especially after
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Speaker 3: like i when i read brandy's book um phases and
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Speaker 3: she talks a lot about that that moment where she
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Speaker 3: got to meet whitney you know that video that always
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Speaker 3: goes viral let's take a listen you can't i think
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Speaker 3: you need to see this but you can hear brandy
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Speaker 3: And kind of hear the interaction.
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Speaker 2: Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 7: I have been sitting here waiting for her since I
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Speaker 7: got here.
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Speaker 5: I'm like, where's Whitney?
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Speaker 2: Where's Whitney? A 16-year-old Brandi barely able to contain herself.
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Speaker 5: I just hope she's nice to me and she likes me.
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Speaker 1: Knowing she'd soon share the stage at the 1995 Kids'
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Speaker 1: Choice Awards with her hero, Whitney Houston.
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Speaker 2: Hey, baby girl!
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Speaker 6: Only extra with this amazing video, the superstar surprising her
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Speaker 6: biggest fan.
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Speaker 2: Where you going? Don't you start crying and carrying on
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Speaker 2: and stuff. Come here with your little pretty self. I'm
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Speaker 2: so proud of you.
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Speaker 8: I'm so proud.
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Speaker 1: Oh, look at you.
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Speaker 4: How you handling, mama?
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Speaker 6: It's cool.
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Speaker 2: It's cool.
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Speaker 3: But she talks about this moment in her book and
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Speaker 3: she talks about, you know, just how much of a
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Speaker 3: dream it was for her and how Whitney Houston became
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Speaker 3: like mentors of sort and was the person that she
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Speaker 3: could call on. Because, you know, with Brandy and in
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Speaker 3: her story, the only reason why I know so much
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Speaker 3: is because I recently read the book. But with Brandy
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Speaker 3: and the story that she tells in her book, like
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Speaker 3: for a long time, it was her and Ray J.
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Speaker 3: Like she was kind of like bullied in school. She
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Speaker 3: was like the outcast a bit. And her and Ray
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Speaker 3: J were really, really close. And he was always like
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Speaker 3: the one there in her corner. And I know with Monica,
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Speaker 3: like Monica's talked publicly about a lot of her story
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Speaker 3: with like, you know, dealing with, you know, death, you know,
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Speaker 3: very close to her. Being so young in the industry
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Speaker 3: and figuring it out, being a mom, finding love now
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Speaker 3: and being safe in that love.
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Speaker 2: So there's a lot there.
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Speaker 3: But I brought up Ray J earlier because I was
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Speaker 3: just sitting here thinking like, yo, Ray J was calling
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Speaker 3: for this to happen so long ago.
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Speaker 2: Now, don't get me wrong.
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Speaker 3: He might have went about it the wrong way, but
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Speaker 3: he had pure intentions. And look what the beauty is
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Speaker 3: bringing the world. Let's take a listen to Ray J.
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Speaker 3: This is at least like a year or two ago now.
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Speaker 3: Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 2: Are you really pushing for Brandi and Monica to go
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Speaker 2: on tour together?
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Speaker 7: That's all I want.
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Speaker 8: Really?
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Speaker 7: That's all I want.
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Speaker 2: What made you wake up one day and say, this
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Speaker 2: is what I need?
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Speaker 7: Well, I've been saying it since they did the versus. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: like I got the jet for B. We flew out there.
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Speaker 7: It was just vibe. They were going back and forth.
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Speaker 7: It wasn't like a competition, but it was.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: And Brandi, like her side, it was like a mosh
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Speaker 7: pit in a ballot.
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Speaker 6: It was amazing.
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Speaker 7: It was a ballot plan, and you look to the side,
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Speaker 7: and we giving her all our support. And I just
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Speaker 7: think Brandy and Monica is an undeniable tour, right? It's
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Speaker 7: like you both win last run. Like, no matter what
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Speaker 7: you feel or whatever, like, how can you not? take
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Speaker 7: that opportunity.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
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Speaker 7: If you know it's there, why do anything else first?
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Speaker 3: But they looked so good. They announced this residency on
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Speaker 3: Dancing with the Stars. It was like a special Grammy-themed
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Speaker 3: episode last night that went down. So actually, I've never
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Speaker 3: watched Dancing with the Stars.
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Speaker 5: Me neither.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never watched Dancing with the Stars.
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Speaker 3: I didn't even know that Alfonso Ribeiro was still hosting
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Speaker 3: Dancing with the Stars. I knew that he was at
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Speaker 3: one point, but I didn't know he was still doing it.
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Speaker 3: So it was interesting to watch him last night in
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Speaker 3: that space. But, yeah, I've never watched it in full
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Speaker 3: or live or anything. I've only ever seen clips or
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Speaker 3: had to watch it when I was, like, covering it
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Speaker 3: for something specific or talking about it for something specific.
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Speaker 2: But they sounded amazing, though. They sung live.
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Speaker 3: And then after they sung live, the announcement happened. Let's
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Speaker 3: take a listen to them live, too.
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Speaker 8: I think it's time we got this right. Let's sit
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Speaker 8: and talk face to face. There is no way you
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Speaker 8: could mistake. And boy, young man, are you insane. You see,
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Speaker 8: I know that you may be just a bit jealous
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Speaker 8: of me. But you'll be lying if you can't see.
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Speaker 1: That his love is all in me.
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Speaker 2: You see, I tried to hesitate. I didn't want to.
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Speaker 8: Say what he told me. Without me, you couldn't make
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Speaker 8: it through the day.
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Speaker 2: You felt ashamed.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you misunderstood.
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Speaker 2: Because I can't see how we could. Want to change
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Speaker 2: something that's so good.
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Speaker 6: Thought my love was all it took.
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Speaker 3: Had about enough because that's that's like a big reason
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Speaker 3: why I'm like although I'm like what is the storyline
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Speaker 3: what's the through line going to be I know people
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Speaker 3: are going to pull up Brandy and Monica could go
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Speaker 3: sing literally in Alaska somewhere somewhere just you wouldn't even
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Speaker 3: think to be and we the world and the culture
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Speaker 3: would follow them there them girls be singing okay love
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Speaker 3: to see it Now, shifting gears, speaking of somebody taking
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Speaker 3: big stages over, Drewski, the trades just dropped. The trades
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Speaker 3: are like the variety magazines, the Rolling Stones, Deadline. These
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Speaker 3: are places that announce things when it comes to entertainment.
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Speaker 3: A lot of times, television. and Rolling Stone Music. Variety
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Speaker 3: announced that Drewski brought 5.6 million viewers to SNL with
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Speaker 3: the episode that he did of Saturday Night Live on
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Speaker 3: November 7, 2026.
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Speaker 2: This was their biggest audience in two years. Thank you.
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Speaker 3: So Drewski hosted SNL with the Strokes as the musical guest.
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Speaker 3: And as I mentioned, he brought in 5.6 million viewers,
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Speaker 3: which is really, really strong for them. And not only
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Speaker 3: does this total outpace of 5.2 million viewers achieved by
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Speaker 3: Indi Navarro and Gracie Abrams, a Halloween episode that they did,
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Speaker 3: which was previously... Which was recorded in... which was a
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Speaker 3: part of season 52 of SNL. But it also marks
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Speaker 3: the most viewers SNL has seen in two years. The
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Speaker 3: most recent episode to outrank Drewskies was during the landmark
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Speaker 3: 50th season when they brought back all the big names
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Speaker 3: and had everybody, it was everybody and their mama involved
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Speaker 3: in SNL.
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Speaker 2: And John Mulaney and.
16:27
Speaker 3: Chaperone boosted the show to 6.6 million viewers during that time.
16:36
Speaker 2: Man, shout out to Drewski. I know that not everybody was.
16:38
Speaker 3: I think everybody was happy to see Drewski and happy
16:44
Speaker 3: about where his career is because he works hard and
16:47
Speaker 3: he deserves it. But I think it was different for
16:49
Speaker 3: some people seeing Drewski live versus in a sketch, you know,
16:53
Speaker 3: comedy skit that he uploads. And I don't think we
16:56
Speaker 3: were used to seeing Drewski on screen for that long.
17:00
Speaker 3: So it makes it, and it's caused some conversation about,
17:03
Speaker 3: you know, whether the writing on SNL wasn't the best
17:06
Speaker 3: fit for him or him trying to write within that
17:08
Speaker 3: SNL space. Because I know he had opened SNL talking
17:11
Speaker 3: about the fact that, you know, he was going to
17:13
Speaker 3: be in control of his own set. Let's take a
17:14
Speaker 3: listen to that.
17:15
Speaker 1: Listen, I know y'all think SNL finna water me down tonight,
17:18
Speaker 1: but no. They are not holding me back from saying anything.
17:21
Speaker 1: There's just a few rules we got to go over.
17:23
Speaker 1: They said, number one, no cussing. I cannot promise that.
17:27
Speaker 1: Number two, no white face. I also can't promise that.
17:30
Speaker 1: That's about half the show right there. But honestly, this
17:36
Speaker 1: is a huge moment for me growing up as a
17:38
Speaker 1: fat kid from the suburbs. Why y'all laughing? My teachers
17:43
Speaker 1: never believed in me. So I just want to say, yeah,
17:46
Speaker 1: I'm just lying. I just wanted to say that because
17:48
Speaker 1: rappers be saying that.
17:49
Speaker 8: Type of stuff.
17:50
Speaker 2: So I don't know how far that control went.
17:52
Speaker 3: I'm really interested to see a post interview where he
17:54
Speaker 3: talks about actually how much control, uh, Lauren Michaels in
17:57
Speaker 3: the SNL team gave him. But I do think that
18:01
Speaker 3: it was, it was different to watch him live. And,
18:04
Speaker 3: and I saw Drew ski in person live when he
18:06
Speaker 3: did the BET awards and he was amazing. He was
18:09
Speaker 3: phenomenal on the BET award stage as well too. And
18:12
Speaker 3: he did sketches there.
18:13
Speaker 2: Um, So I don't know.
18:16
Speaker 3: I don't know what it was, but I did see
18:17
Speaker 3: people saying that were kind of indecisive about, you know,
18:22
Speaker 3: how they felt about not even just the sketches he did,
18:25
Speaker 3: but just him in that space in general.
18:27
Speaker 2: But you know what?
18:27
Speaker 3: It has made me very interested to see. I really
18:30
Speaker 3: want to see him in this new movie that he
18:32
Speaker 3: has coming out, The Catch. So it is a romantic comedy.
18:36
Speaker 3: It's a baseball romantic comedy. It's going to release May
18:39
Speaker 3: of 2027. Emma Stone is in it. She was actually
18:42
Speaker 3: there with Drewski. She was a part of his monologue.
18:44
Speaker 3: Chris Pine, Ashley Padilla, Tim Robbins, and Sissy Spacek and
18:49
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see that because I think that this
18:51
Speaker 3: is going to be a different area of content and
18:54
Speaker 3: different genre to see Drewski within even though it's comedy
18:57
Speaker 3: and it'll be funny it's different I feel like delivering
19:01
Speaker 3: with a cast of like actor actors in a movie
19:04
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to see it though I think this
19:06
Speaker 3: year is the perfect year for Drewski to be laying
19:10
Speaker 3: a foundation for the heights that we already knew that
19:13
Speaker 3: he was going to reach. And I say that this
19:15
Speaker 3: is the perfect year because, you know, I think Drewski
19:17
Speaker 3: has conversation so much around him. Like Drewski literally is,
19:21
Speaker 3: he number one in that space, period. Like no one's
19:23
Speaker 3: standing next to him. so he has the formula down
19:27
Speaker 3: pack you know he does his sketches he's very consistent
19:31
Speaker 3: just did the deal with netflix for that exclusive um
19:34
Speaker 3: church pastor show that he'll be doing with mike epps
19:37
Speaker 3: so he has all that happening and now he can
19:39
Speaker 3: kind of like you know go into some new spaces
19:42
Speaker 3: and try to some new waters and see what see
19:44
Speaker 3: what it does for him and learn from it because
19:46
Speaker 3: it's only going to grow from here i saw people
19:49
Speaker 3: saying like well, of course, Drewski's doing SNL. He has
19:51
Speaker 3: this big new movie coming with Emma Stone.
19:54
Speaker 2: I'm like, do y'all understand how.
19:56
Speaker 3: Many people get like roles in big movies and don't
20:00
Speaker 3: get to host SNL?
20:02
Speaker 2: I hate it when people do that.
20:03
Speaker 3: Don't take away from the fact that Drewski's sketches, he's
20:06
Speaker 3: not just a person that throws up sketches on the internet.
20:09
Speaker 3: They literally stop and cause conversation nationally amongst politics, culture,
20:15
Speaker 3: black culture.
20:16
Speaker 2: White homes.
20:18
Speaker 3: He is everywhere off of the writing and execution of
20:22
Speaker 3: internet sketch comedy. The audience that he captivates and carries
20:27
Speaker 3: with him And his talent is what got him there.
20:30
Speaker 3: Not the fact that he just in some movie and
20:32
Speaker 3: they like, oh, he got this new movie so he
20:33
Speaker 3: could afford this new PR team. Ain't no PR strings
20:38
Speaker 3: enough in the world to make to make Lorne Michaels
20:40
Speaker 3: be like, yeah, come on in here, host. What Drewski
20:43
Speaker 3: did with bringing in those numbers, executing and getting through
20:46
Speaker 3: those sketches, whether they were, you know, your taste for
20:49
Speaker 3: him or not. That's what got him there. And let
20:51
Speaker 3: us not forget, OK, because that's not easy. SNL is
20:55
Speaker 3: not easy. A daily show is not easy. Especially something
20:59
Speaker 3: like that that's live.
21:00
Speaker 2: Period.
21:02
Speaker 3: So congratulations to all the greats who are headed out
21:04
Speaker 3: on these stages. I'm saying headed out with Drewski, but
21:07
Speaker 3: I mean the movie. And he already has the movie
21:09
Speaker 3: out as well, the live stream from Hell. That, though,
21:12
Speaker 3: is really in his vein of things because it's literally
21:15
Speaker 3: like him, Kai Sanat, Kevin Hart, they're on a live stream.
21:19
Speaker 3: Drewski's being Drewski. Kai's being Kai. Kevin Hart is being
21:22
Speaker 3: Kevin Hart. They're not even playing characters. They're literally playing themselves.
21:26
Speaker 3: But I am interested to see him in the catch
21:28
Speaker 3: because he will have to step out of... who we
21:31
Speaker 3: know Drewski to be to a certain extent or not
21:36
Speaker 3: because I mean I'm with Kevin Hart people say Kevin
21:38
Speaker 3: Hart plays in roles but it always feels very Kevin
21:42
Speaker 3: Hart when he's in these roles and I know that
21:43
Speaker 3: he's done you know dramas and different things recently because
21:46
Speaker 3: getting getting around and out.
21:48
Speaker 2: Of that box of things.
21:50
Speaker 3: Like, it's not like, and I think, honestly, it's the
21:53
Speaker 3: star power of Kevin Hart at this point.
21:55
Speaker 2: And that's why it's another thing with Drewski, too.
21:57
Speaker 3: It's like, I think for him to be trying different
21:59
Speaker 3: things and to be doing different roles that put him
22:01
Speaker 3: in different conversations and different characters, right now is a
22:05
Speaker 3: good time for that because, I mean, Drewski's.
22:07
Speaker 2: A hell of a big name, don't get me wrong.
22:09
Speaker 3: But he still has the ability to kind of, like,
22:12
Speaker 3: put on the mask of another character and fully throw
22:14
Speaker 3: himself in it without us feeling like every time we
22:16
Speaker 3: look at him, we want to see the Drewski we
22:18
Speaker 3: see on Could Have Been Love. With Kevin Hart, I
22:22
Speaker 3: think his celebrity and how big his persona and the
22:26
Speaker 3: brand and the character of Kevin Hart is, you can't
22:28
Speaker 3: unsee it no matter if he acting down or not. Drama,
22:32
Speaker 3: like you just can't unsee it. Kevin Hart is always
22:34
Speaker 3: giving Kevin Hart to some people. And I think that's
22:37
Speaker 3: a gift and a curse of having like such a,
22:39
Speaker 3: being a superstar comedian. You know why I'm like, oh,
22:44
Speaker 3: maybe because you saw that movie he did with... The
22:47
Speaker 3: little girl when he was the dad?
22:48
Speaker 8: No, no.
22:49
Speaker 2: Okay, because I forget that one, but that was good.
22:51
Speaker 4: The Upside, I think it was called, when he was
22:54
Speaker 4: taking care of the grand... Not grand, but like the
22:57
Speaker 4: old man. Do you know what I'm talking about?
23:01
Speaker 8: No, let me go.
23:02
Speaker 4: That was a drama in a sense. It wasn't supposed
23:04
Speaker 4: to be a comedy at all. There was like some.
23:08
Speaker 2: In a sense, funny parts, but it's definitely more drama.
23:11
Speaker 2: The movie I'm talking about is called Fatherhood. It came
23:13
Speaker 2: out in 2021.
23:14
Speaker 4: I know not one you're talking about, but there's another
23:17
Speaker 4: one he has with a white old man that he
23:18
Speaker 4: was taking care of.
23:22
Speaker 2: No, I didn't see this. It's called Upside, right? 2017, yep.
23:25
Speaker 2: I need to go watch this. That was good. That
23:27
Speaker 2: was a good movie.
23:27
Speaker 3: But see, 2017, I mean, Kevin Hart was huge in 2017, too,
23:31
Speaker 3: but today, Kevin Hart is so freaking famous.
23:35
Speaker 7: Yeah.
23:36
Speaker 3: I feel like my personal takeaway when people critique Kevin Hart,
23:39
Speaker 3: even how people will say he's not as funny or
23:42
Speaker 3: he's not.
23:45
Speaker 2: He plays it safe.
23:46
Speaker 3: He plays it safe with his comedy. I just think
23:49
Speaker 3: the brand of Kevin Hart is so big that people
23:52
Speaker 3: have one thing or one way they look at him
23:55
Speaker 3: and it sticks for people because we see him everywhere
23:59
Speaker 3: all the time doing it. And people don't give him
24:02
Speaker 3: a shot in any other space. Whereas Drewski, he's big,
24:06
Speaker 3: but like, oh shoot, no pun intended.
24:10
Speaker 2: You did that on yourself. He lost weight, too. No,
24:12
Speaker 2: I saw him when he opened up in that monologue
24:14
Speaker 2: with that shirt. I said, okay, Drewski. Yeah.
24:16
Speaker 3: I saw the tennis chains and the grills. I'm like,
24:18
Speaker 3: Drewski getting money. Okay, and them sketches. He had them earrings.
24:22
Speaker 3: And I said, okay, big diamond Drewski, not the little one.
24:25
Speaker 3: But I think that this is just a good time
24:27
Speaker 3: for Drewski to be able to play around on the
24:28
Speaker 3: playground a little bit of characters and... you know, really
24:31
Speaker 3: see what his range is about to be in this
24:34
Speaker 3: entertainment industry. Cause he's shown us all these different, uh, characters.
24:39
Speaker 3: He's shown us all the different things he's capable of doing. Um,
24:41
Speaker 3: but I think it's different when you are fully in
24:44
Speaker 3: control and you're working with people that like, are your
24:46
Speaker 3: people versus I'm working with directors and other actors in
24:50
Speaker 3: a space that I'm not controlling as much.
24:52
Speaker 2: I think that's a little different.
24:54
Speaker 8: Yeah.
24:54
Speaker 3: So I'm excited nonetheless for Drewski. I'm excited for Monica,
24:58
Speaker 3: for Brandy. Um, I'm definitely gonna go to Vegas to
25:02
Speaker 3: see them. I'm definitely gonna go see Drewski in the
25:05
Speaker 3: movie theater. I'm excited for creatives in general right now.
25:08
Speaker 2: I've been like this forever. Literally my whole life.
25:11
Speaker 3: I've been believing in the creative and the entrepreneur, but
25:14
Speaker 3: I think, you know, the pandemic and the position it
25:17
Speaker 3: put people in to kind of, it like forced you to,
25:20
Speaker 3: to understand working for yourself or, you know, creating things
25:23
Speaker 3: out of nothing because so many people lost so many
25:25
Speaker 3: people and so many things. Um, I don't think that
25:28
Speaker 3: there was no turning back from that. And people were
25:30
Speaker 3: saying it then during the pandemic, but it's like a
25:33
Speaker 3: hundred percent. Like we're all these years later in, um,
25:36
Speaker 3: Look at where the industry is sitting right now. Like,
25:38
Speaker 3: you know, Netflix just did a deal with Drewski. Instagram
25:41
Speaker 3: is offering basically development deals for people to exclusively do
25:44
Speaker 3: long form content on Instagram. YouTube, you know, is in
25:48
Speaker 3: a space of competing for creators to be exclusively there too.
25:51
Speaker 3: Like the power is in the hand of the creatives themselves.
25:55
Speaker 3: It was then, it is now, but it's all about
25:57
Speaker 3: the talent. The talent sustains you and the work sustains
26:02
Speaker 3: you too. Like Brandy, Monica, they work hardest. They are
26:05
Speaker 3: out here, okay? Putting together shows, all the things. Drewski,
26:09
Speaker 3: super consistent.
26:10
Speaker 2: He works hard.
26:12
Speaker 3: Talent will sustain you execution will take you like out
26:16
Speaker 3: of this world and in character and in manners will
26:20
Speaker 3: take you even further than the first two so yes
26:23
Speaker 3: that was another episode of the latest with lauren the
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Speaker 3: rosa guys i tell you guys every single episode y'all
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Speaker 3: could be anywhere with any old body but you choose
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Speaker 3: to be right here with me my low riders i
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