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Never Count Her Out: Yung Miami’s Underdog Era · 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? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode
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Speaker 2: of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily
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Speaker 2: dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all
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Speaker 2: of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, y'all
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Speaker 2: know we always kick off The Latest with Lauren LaRosa
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Speaker 2: with the behind the scenes of the grind check-in. And
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Speaker 2: that is the segment where we really, really check in
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Speaker 2: while on the grind. I don't know about y'all, but
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Speaker 2: I dang sure don't stop to check in on myself.
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Speaker 2: I will literally burn myself to the ground. Well, the
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Speaker 2: old me would have burnt myself to the ground. Actually,
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Speaker 2: I have physically burnt myself down to the ground to
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Speaker 2: the point where I was fainting in the club, y'all.
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Speaker 2: So I built this segment into the podcast because since
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Speaker 2: it's just me and y'all, I figured why not start
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Speaker 2: checking in on myself and making that a habit and
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Speaker 2: you guys holding me accountable.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 2: Let's get on into behind the scenes of The Grind.
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Speaker 2: Let's do it.
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Speaker 3: Back on The Grind.
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Speaker 2: It is Friday. Finally. How am I feeling? I'm, you know,
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Speaker 2: getting to the end of the week is always a
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Speaker 2: joy for me. I don't think I am still used
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Speaker 2: to getting up early in the morning, which is crazy because...
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Speaker 2: I didn't just start getting up in the morning early
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Speaker 2: for breakfast club. When I worked at TMZ, we worked
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Speaker 2: on New York time because that's just how a lot
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Speaker 2: of like businesses and especially news here in the U.S. works.
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Speaker 2: A lot of the clocks and everything are set by
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Speaker 2: New York. A lot of the print and newspapers print
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Speaker 2: at a certain time and, you know, things are based
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Speaker 2: off of New York. So I would have to be
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Speaker 2: up and on my way to work in L.A. around
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Speaker 2: like 5 a.m. My first meeting what happened at 6 a.m.
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Speaker 2: at TMZ. So you guys ever watch TMZ and, you know,
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Speaker 2: that Circle Up show? So there's two shows. There's the
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Speaker 2: daytime show where people are just sitting at their desk
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Speaker 2: and like they're talking one-on-one straight to the camera. And
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Speaker 2: then Harvey and Charles are on this like elevated platform.
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Speaker 2: And then there's a second show where everybody in the
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Speaker 2: room is all in one big circle. So that everybody
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Speaker 2: in the room, one big circle show is based off
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Speaker 2: of the actual meetings, producer meetings that we had every morning.
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Speaker 2: So at 6 a.m., Or, like, 5... I would try to,
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Speaker 2: you know, need to get there by, like, 5.30. At
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Speaker 2: 5.30 a.m., you would get there, and that was, like,
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Speaker 2: your actual clock in time. If you were later than that,
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Speaker 2: you were late for work. Because if you come in
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Speaker 2: late and that meeting started, baby, you get the dirtiest
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Speaker 2: looks of the dirtiest look. Okay? But, yeah, you would
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Speaker 2: get there around 5.15, 5.30, and you would just search
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Speaker 2: the Internet. And a lot... Searching the Internet more so,
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Speaker 2: to be honest with you guys, was more about what
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Speaker 2: was trending that morning. For the most part, you would
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Speaker 2: be watching... just headlines and blogs and Twitter and, you know,
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Speaker 2: however news was coming your way the day before. So
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Speaker 2: as soon as you leave work, you would be, you know,
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Speaker 2: keeping up with things until, you know, time to go
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Speaker 2: to bed, wake up the next morning and go back
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Speaker 2: into work. So that morning, you know, internet surge and
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Speaker 2: was trending across X or Google or wherever. It's just
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Speaker 2: to know what happened kind of while you were sleeping.
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Speaker 2: We would make our list and then we would go
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Speaker 2: into the producer meetings and everybody would go around and
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Speaker 2: talk about, you know, what stories they were working on
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Speaker 2: for the day. what angles they were coming from. You know,
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Speaker 2: if I could help you figure out your pitch, you
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Speaker 2: help me figure out my pitch as far as, like,
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Speaker 2: different angles or different resources we needed to break a story,
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Speaker 2: we would do that. Breakfast Club is a bit different, though.
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Speaker 2: Coming in in the morning, it's like you already have
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Speaker 2: everybody else, like, you know, Jess, Envy, Char, they're on air,
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Speaker 2: top of the show. The producers are cutting audio. We
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Speaker 2: do a lot of our reconvening the night before, me
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Speaker 2: and the producers that I work with on the latest
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Speaker 2: with Lauren LaRosa within the Breakfast Club. Um, but the
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Speaker 2: timing is still, and we talk a lot throughout the
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Speaker 2: day too, but the timing is still early for me.
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Speaker 2: And I told myself that even though I am not
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Speaker 2: really a morning person, I've, it's like God wants me
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Speaker 2: to be his strongest morning soldier. Okay. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what it is about me getting these morning jobs, but
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Speaker 2: I keep getting them. So I think that it's, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's in preparation for something. Um, So I'm just learning
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Speaker 2: to get up in the mornings. But Fridays are always
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Speaker 2: my favorite days and weekends are always my favorite when
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Speaker 2: I'm not ripping and running too crazy because you get
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Speaker 2: to sleep. At this era of my life, I am working,
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Speaker 2: I am sleeping, and if I am outside enjoying my
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Speaker 2: time and reclaiming my time, it is planned and it
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Speaker 2: has to be worth it. I don't know if that's
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Speaker 2: an age thing or if that is a because I
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Speaker 2: get up so early in the morning for work thing,
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Speaker 2: but whatever it is, that is where I am at.
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Speaker 2: I also realized, too, like behind the scenes this week,
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Speaker 2: I've been thinking a lot about the fact that me
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Speaker 2: and my friends, like, we're really, like, y'all, we are adults, right?
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Speaker 2: I'm 34 years old and every now and then it
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Speaker 2: hits me like you are a real adult. Like this
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Speaker 2: thing is here, baby girl. It is happening. One of
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Speaker 2: my friends, his girlfriend, she's a dermatologist, black woman dermatologist.
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Speaker 2: Shout out to my girl, Jabria Dreams. She's working down
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Speaker 2: in Georgia. But yeah, I FaceTimed her the other day.
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Speaker 2: She had one of her like student assistants with her. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, I know her as Jabria and I know
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Speaker 2: she's a doctor, but it's different seeing people at work
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Speaker 2: and then seeing how other people see them as well.
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Speaker 2: So they were having conversations about how they all start
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Speaker 2: their day before work. And, you know, Jabria and Dr.
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Speaker 2: James and the rest of her team are talking about
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Speaker 2: different songs and motivational songs and things they listen to
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Speaker 2: on their way in. And one of her medical assistants
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Speaker 2: was like, you know what? I listened to the latest
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Speaker 2: with Lauren La Rosa on my way in to work.
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Speaker 2: It motivates me because of her story. It keeps me going.
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Speaker 2: But also like she's filling me in on what's going
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Speaker 2: on as well, too, and give me like real good
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Speaker 2: background context. So my one of my guy best friends,
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Speaker 2: like a brother to me, this is his girlfriend who
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Speaker 2: is Dr.
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Speaker 3: James.
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Speaker 2: And she had asked him if I could FaceTime and
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Speaker 2: just talk to the student for a little bit. Because, man,
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Speaker 2: medical school in any sort of way ain't no joke.
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Speaker 2: That girl was in school forever. And he will be
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Speaker 2: in school for some time, too. So just something to
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Speaker 2: keep him motivated. So I FaceTimed and I'm talking to
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Speaker 2: him and he says something, something, something, Dr.
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Speaker 3: James.
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Speaker 2: And it hit me. I'm like, oh, shoot. Like the
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Speaker 2: way that I look at doctors, like my doctors, they
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Speaker 2: got a friend or a homegirl that look at them
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Speaker 2: as like, girl, that's crazy. You really somebody doctor. The
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Speaker 2: cycle of life is insane. Like, we are really grown
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Speaker 2: adults with all this responsibility right now. And I think,
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Speaker 2: if I'm being completely honest with myself, I always known
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Speaker 2: that I was going to have a big old, serious
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Speaker 2: old job. But when you get to certain ages, it
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Speaker 2: doesn't feel like what you imagined it to feel like.
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Speaker 2: I thought by 34 years old, I was going to
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Speaker 2: be married. I was going to have kids. I was
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Speaker 2: going to be living in a home that I owned.
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Speaker 2: And I just pictured my life being... I have a
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Speaker 2: lot of responsibility. I was going to say having a
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Speaker 2: lot of responsibility, but I do have a lot of responsibility.
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Speaker 2: I pictured my life older when I was younger thinking
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Speaker 2: about the age I am now. But now in that age,
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Speaker 2: I feel so young. Like I feel like I am
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Speaker 2: barely scratching the surface of so many things. Like even
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Speaker 2: the thought of having children, I know I'm going to
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Speaker 2: do it, want to do it, you know, being married,
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Speaker 2: going to happen and all of this, you know, soon,
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Speaker 2: relatively soon. But, like, even a thought of that, sometimes
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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm really going to be somebody's mama. Like,
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Speaker 2: I just wonder if that feeling ever goes away. Do
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Speaker 2: you ever? I'm always trying to figure out when am
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Speaker 2: I going to get over that hump of, dang, I'm
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Speaker 2: really the new adult too. No, I'm the adult here.
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Speaker 2: You know how your parents used to be like, I'm
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Speaker 2: the adult in this house. I brought you in this world.
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Speaker 2: I'll take you out. I don't know if y'all parents
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Speaker 2: told y'all that, but my mom used to always be like,
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Speaker 2: this is my house. You can get out. I brought
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Speaker 2: you in this world. I'll take you out of it. Like,
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Speaker 2: I'm the adult in this house. I wonder when my
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Speaker 2: I'm the adult in this house is going to kick in. Like,
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Speaker 2: is that something that only happens once you get to your, like, dang,
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Speaker 2: I got all these babies in this house stage? Y'all
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Speaker 2: let me know. Find me on social and let me know.
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Speaker 2: When did your.
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Speaker 2: Feeling of being an adult go from oh my god
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Speaker 2: i'm really an adult to i'm the only adult in
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Speaker 2: this house i'm lorna rosa everywhere l-o-r-e-n l-o-r-o-s-a let's talk
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Speaker 2: about growing and mature and realizing that like you are
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Speaker 2: grown and did that sink in ladies i would love
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Speaker 2: to know like is that something that sinks in once
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Speaker 2: you get to that like maternal point in your life
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Speaker 2: where like the babies are here And that maternal instinct
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Speaker 2: kicks in. Fellas, for you, did it kick in when
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Speaker 2: you were responsible for a family? When you became a husband? Or,
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Speaker 2: you know, was it a certain job? Like, when does
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Speaker 2: that shift? Is shift even a real thing? Because older people,
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Speaker 2: like my grandmother, talks to me about feeling old and
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Speaker 2: being old. So there's a shift that happens somewhere. What
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Speaker 2: is that shift? Let's get on into the latest. Speaking
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Speaker 2: of shifts, Young Miami. I love a good underdog story, baby.
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Speaker 2: But let me tell y'all something. It's weird because I
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Speaker 2: feel so, I relate so much to Young Miami's come
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Speaker 2: up story and not having to convince people, but having
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Speaker 2: to remind herself of who she was so that the
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Speaker 2: world felt it too story. But I don't think of
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Speaker 2: her as an underdog. I never thought of Young Miami
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Speaker 2: as an underdog, but I do know that the people
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Speaker 2: was on her. I do that. I know that for
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Speaker 2: a fact, like, They throw every which and word at
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Speaker 2: Young Miami and the City Girls when they were together
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Speaker 2: as a group, her and JT. People just love to,
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Speaker 2: when you up and you moving, people love to throw
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Speaker 2: things your way. But there have been a few records
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Speaker 2: that she released since telling us she was coming with
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Speaker 2: her debut album. Now, one of the, there was, there's
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Speaker 2: actually three. It was Newsflash, which is where she talks about,
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Speaker 2: you know, just being the center of media and conversation
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Speaker 2: and headlines. There was T-Time, which is when you see
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Speaker 2: the two fingers, clock it, that had that hook on it.
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Speaker 2: Those two songs were not revered well by her audience
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Speaker 2: and by the masses. They weren't. But she then fought back, okay?
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Speaker 2: And that's why I love this story. I do think, though,
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Speaker 2: that being a solo artist and having to find your
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Speaker 2: sound outside of a group is a process. And we're
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Speaker 2: learning in real time and in front of the world,
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Speaker 2: a lot of us that are doing things on these platforms.
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Speaker 2: You know, you're putting your art out there and your
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Speaker 2: creativity out there for people to have conversation about. It
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Speaker 2: is not the easiest thing. So she talks about that
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Speaker 2: whole experience and, you know, the people coming for her
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Speaker 2: and changing their minds, baby, with Spin That and that
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Speaker 2: becoming a song of the summer. Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 1: If Complex were to do a list of where all
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Speaker 1: the female rappers rate, Carisha, you would be last on
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Speaker 1: the list.
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Speaker 2: Young Miami put out a snippet of a song, and
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Speaker 2: the fans are not loving it. I just left the studio.
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Speaker 3: It's 6.30, 7 a.m.
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Speaker 4: These last few days ain't been good for me.
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Speaker 2: I had a mental breakdown. The other day, I was
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Speaker 2: dropping my son off.
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Speaker 3: He said, you okay, Mommy?
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Speaker 2: I said, y'all have a depress. That moment right there.
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Speaker 3: My son seeing me hurt, I said, this is going
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Speaker 3: to be my last time I'm crying. It took me
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Speaker 3: two years to make this album. I don't know how
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Speaker 3: some days I built the courage to go in the
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Speaker 3: studio to even record a song, but I remember putting
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Speaker 3: all of my emotions into this album. I remember crying,
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Speaker 3: questioning myself. Even when I felt like it was the
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Speaker 3: whole world versus me, I ain't let none of that
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Speaker 3: s * * * stop me. I ain't let nothing
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Speaker 3: get in my way.
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Speaker 2: Love it. Love it. Y'all hear me in the trailer.
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Speaker 2: They did use a clip from The Breakfast Club where
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Speaker 2: we were talking about the Clock It record. Let's take
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Speaker 2: a listen to that full segment, actually. Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 2: The people want the City Girls back. Young Miami put
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Speaker 2: out a snippet of a song and the fans are
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Speaker 2: not loving it. Let's take a listen to the snippet
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Speaker 2: of the song.
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Speaker 4: You know it's tea when you see them two fingers touching.
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Speaker 2: I'm just some real fine s * * *.
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Speaker 4: Are you?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Let's get it to 17. How do you judge that?
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Speaker 1: It sounds like somebody recorded it off a phone or something.
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Speaker 3: She was on the live.
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Speaker 2: She was on the live. And she previewed it for Santana.
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Speaker 2: But is that the only snippet? I mean, the beat
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Speaker 2: didn't drop yet. We didn't get into a verse or nothing.
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Speaker 2: That's all we got. That's all she posted. Now, she
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Speaker 2: did go live following this because the comments got crazy. Like, people,
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Speaker 2: once blogs picked this up, people were in the comments
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Speaker 2: and on X. There was one person I saw that
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Speaker 2: told her go get her CDLs, like, to give it up.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 2: Don't play with Young Miami. Don't laugh at Young Miami.
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Speaker 2: I know she's listening. Good morning, Young Miami. Don't play
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Speaker 2: with Young Miami. Don't play with Young Miami. Don't drive trucks, man.
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Speaker 3: Goddamn.
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Speaker 2: That's dumb. They was on her body, y'all.
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Speaker 1: Damn.
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Speaker 2: That bad. Leave Young Miami alone.
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Speaker 4: It was bad.
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Speaker 2: But they love to poke at Young Miami and her
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Speaker 2: rap abilities, right?
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Speaker 3: Leave Carisha alone.
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Speaker 2: But she went live and she responded because it was
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Speaker 2: on her so bad. Let's take a listen to her response.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: I've been seeing all y'all videos.
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Speaker 4: And the thing about it is what's gagging me the
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Speaker 4: most about this whole thing is it's like y'all just
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Speaker 4: literally y'all didn't hear the whole song. Like y'all literally
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Speaker 4: got me so hyped and a good hype.
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Speaker 2: I'm not mad. I'm literally like laughing with y'all.
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Speaker 3: Like I be keen with y'all.
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Speaker 4: But y'all got me so hyped. Like I'm so excited
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Speaker 4: because it's like... I'm really coming.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to f * * * what y'all talking about.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to f * * * what y'all talking
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Speaker 4: about in the comments. I'm going to f * * *
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Speaker 4: what y'all talking about on Twitter.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to f * * * what.
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Speaker 4: Y'all talking about on TikTok.
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Speaker 2: When I drop my f * * * ing tape,
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Speaker 2: y'all f * * * ing want to.
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Speaker 3: Owe me a pie.
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Speaker 2: No, y'all, because the people were coming for her. Like,
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Speaker 2: go get your CDLs. It's crazy. But I'm going to
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Speaker 2: tell y'all something right now. As a person that gets
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Speaker 2: a lot of... I get both sides of the coin. Like,
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Speaker 2: there are a lot of people who support me. who,
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Speaker 2: you know, love to see me figuring things out and
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Speaker 2: finding my way and all of this. And there are
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Speaker 2: a lot of people who are very critical of me.
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Speaker 2: Every um, every ah, every, you know... For some reason,
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Speaker 2: when my mind is going and I'm thinking too much, I, mm, or, uh, uh,
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Speaker 2: a lot.
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Speaker 1: Or I.
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Speaker 1: Shoot.
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Speaker 2: There were some days I was coming in here and
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Speaker 2: I was stumbling through my words just trying to get
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Speaker 2: through because my mind is all over the place and
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking about people and the pressure. And if I'm
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Speaker 2: getting it right and if I'm doing it right, does
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Speaker 2: the room like the story? Is this even the right
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Speaker 2: story to be doing? It's a lot that goes into
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Speaker 2: perfecting your craft and it's a lot that goes into
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Speaker 2: it pressure-wise when you're doing it in front of the world.
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Speaker 2: So I feel her. And I've always... big city girl
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Speaker 2: fan over here I've always revered their resilience because I
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Speaker 2: know what it's like you know coming from like really
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Speaker 2: trying to figure something out like they they come from
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Speaker 2: literally building their lives like the lives that they're living
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Speaker 2: right now they've built from nothing I totally understand that
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Speaker 2: I love an underdog story even though weirdly enough I
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Speaker 2: don't look at them as underdogs because I feel like
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Speaker 2: they're here they've been here like a lot of the
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Speaker 2: the words that we say the period you know, not
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Speaker 2: a woman's menstrual cycle, but you know, we'd be like, yep, girl, period.
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Speaker 2: That's the city girls, like their lingo, their influence. It's
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Speaker 2: here and has been for some time, but I don't
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Speaker 2: know what it is about when you are, you know,
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Speaker 2: at the top of things and having to figure it out.
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Speaker 2: People don't give you the same grace that they give
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Speaker 2: you while you coming up and while you building. And
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Speaker 2: even then people are critical, but I think it gets
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Speaker 2: even worse once you've already acclaimed some success. And I
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Speaker 2: think a lot of it is like, I think the
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Speaker 2: race to, not even the finish line, because once you
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Speaker 2: get to that end-all, be-all goal, there's always more to do.
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Speaker 2: But the race to getting over that hump or over
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Speaker 2: that hill where you feel like you're smooth sailing, it
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Speaker 2: can feel so bumpy at times. It definitely can feel
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Speaker 2: bumpy at times. And it can feel like people are
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Speaker 2: supporting you on your way up, and once you're there,
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Speaker 2: they want you to come on down. But It's a race.
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Speaker 2: And honestly, I look at it now that I'm building
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Speaker 2: something publicly on a major platform. I understand that it's
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Speaker 2: a marathon. Like, I totally understand what Nipsey Hussle meant
16:05
Speaker 2: when he said that. And what I'm hearing through Young
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Speaker 2: Miami in this trailer for Watch This. And, you know,
16:13
Speaker 2: I know she has her song. F you coming out
16:17
Speaker 2: this Friday, October 2nd. What I'm hearing is that you like,
16:21
Speaker 2: she took everything that was being thrown at her and
16:25
Speaker 2: use it to kind of make her stronger, but she
16:26
Speaker 2: didn't run away from what she was feeling. Like she
16:28
Speaker 2: didn't run away from the fact that she was feeling depressed,
16:30
Speaker 2: that she was, you know, that there was a little
16:32
Speaker 2: bit of an imposter syndrome and like, am I even
16:34
Speaker 2: good enough? And y'all know, I talked to y'all a
16:36
Speaker 2: lot about that here on the latest with Lauren La
16:38
Speaker 2: Rosa and the crazy feeling of experiencing that at a
16:41
Speaker 2: time where you know, you, like, I've always felt like
16:45
Speaker 2: imposter syndrome was something I conquered a long time ago.
16:48
Speaker 2: But having to reconquer it differently and so publicly has
16:54
Speaker 2: been a journey. And that's why I talk about it
16:56
Speaker 2: out loud because I think a lot of people want
16:58
Speaker 2: people to feel like that just doesn't happen and that's
17:00
Speaker 2: not true. And y'all know what else I learned from
17:03
Speaker 2: this Young Miami situation too? Like, watching this trailer, it
17:07
Speaker 2: really made, like, oh my God, it really made me
17:09
Speaker 2: think about platform and the use of it and because
17:14
Speaker 2: I mean look and what we do and what I
17:17
Speaker 2: do you do have to be honest about certain things
17:20
Speaker 2: like I didn't the tea time record I was like
17:23
Speaker 2: okay I love city girls I'm down for the movement
17:27
Speaker 2: but like this ain't it the newsflash record I listened
17:30
Speaker 2: to it but honestly it didn't have replay value spin
17:33
Speaker 2: that The first time I heard it, I was like, okay,
17:36
Speaker 2: this is a vibe. But I don't even think I
17:38
Speaker 2: really understood it. I went out with my homegirls. Not
17:40
Speaker 2: even that I didn't understand it, but it didn't hit
17:42
Speaker 2: me yet. You know how sometimes you need to go
17:44
Speaker 2: out to the club, you need to really live it
17:45
Speaker 2: in real life, like really feel it in real life?
17:47
Speaker 2: I went out one weekend when my friends came to
17:50
Speaker 2: New York. We played Spin That all weekend. And I
17:54
Speaker 2: was like, yes, like this, like you need, as a girl, you,
17:59
Speaker 2: the lady's going to know what I'm saying. I mean,
18:00
Speaker 2: even fellas, like there are certain records that like when
18:02
Speaker 2: you play them, the life experience coupled with it makes
18:05
Speaker 2: a song even better. But like being out running around
18:08
Speaker 2: in the summertime, seeing what the song was doing, really
18:11
Speaker 2: getting a chance to feel it, helped. But it was
18:12
Speaker 2: also a really great record. Like, the hook, you know,
18:15
Speaker 2: it was melodic. It was all the things it was
18:17
Speaker 2: supposed to be to just be fun and make you
18:20
Speaker 2: think of a good time, but, you know, make you
18:22
Speaker 2: think of, like, all the things you want to do. Like,
18:25
Speaker 2: who don't just want to go buy a Goyard bag?
18:27
Speaker 2: And that's what I think the city girls have been
18:29
Speaker 2: best at is like creating this lifestyle culture movement of
18:34
Speaker 2: young girls who were just, you know, living these aspirational lives.
18:38
Speaker 2: And what's not what they don't have. They talk about
18:42
Speaker 2: it in a way that makes you like them. I
18:44
Speaker 2: wish I could talk about it like that. I wish
18:45
Speaker 2: I could say that. But it also made me think about, though,
18:49
Speaker 2: you know, having to critique somebody and talk about the
18:53
Speaker 2: things that you don't like where my empathy comes in.
18:56
Speaker 2: Because I know what it's like to be talked about
18:59
Speaker 2: and be talked about to a point where you're like, yo,
19:01
Speaker 2: I just want to see you. Like, pull up. Like,
19:03
Speaker 2: what's up? And we didn't do that. We didn't do that.
19:06
Speaker 2: But I'm just thinking about the fact that, like, in
19:09
Speaker 2: real life, she's driving in the car with her son,
19:12
Speaker 2: potentially listening to The Breakfast Club, going through depression. And
19:15
Speaker 2: then she's hearing us then talk about her and add
19:19
Speaker 2: it on to that. And I never want to be
19:20
Speaker 2: the person that's burdening somebody in that way. Like, it's
19:24
Speaker 2: finding the balance of, like, empathy and honesty charlamagne actually
19:28
Speaker 2: just talked about this on a pivot and i thought
19:29
Speaker 2: that that was like a really good point um takeaway
19:32
Speaker 2: point and a pillar point for me as i grow
19:35
Speaker 2: in my career you know of talking about people and
19:39
Speaker 2: talking to people at the same time let's take a
19:40
Speaker 2: listen to him on the.
19:41
Speaker 1: Pivot the good stuff that bad stuff people cuss you
19:44
Speaker 1: out tell you stupid and all that stuff but the
19:45
Speaker 1: good stuff too a lot of people do enjoy the
19:48
Speaker 1: encouragement and enjoy the upping of themselves That don't do
19:50
Speaker 1: nothing for you?
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Speaker 3: Nah, man.
19:52
Speaker 1: My daddy instilled in me a long time ago, you're
19:54
Speaker 1: never as good as they say you are and you're
19:56
Speaker 1: never as bad as they say you are. And I
19:58
Speaker 1: always just operate in that space. And a great mentor
20:01
Speaker 1: of mine in radio, his name is Cadillac Jack, he
20:03
Speaker 1: always told me about the rule of ten. He said
20:06
Speaker 1: out of ten people, three people are going to like it,
20:08
Speaker 1: Three people are not going to like it. Four people
20:10
Speaker 1: don't even know what the hell is going on. And
20:13
Speaker 1: that's just literally how I carry it. I don't get
20:16
Speaker 1: too high off the praise. I definitely don't get too
20:19
Speaker 1: low off the booze. It's just like I just stay
20:23
Speaker 1: like this. That's another reason I don't like to feed
20:26
Speaker 1: off social media so much because social media is that
20:28
Speaker 1: crowd thing. that will gas you up, you know? And
20:32
Speaker 1: it'll make you feel like you have to comment on everything.
20:35
Speaker 1: You ever see people starting videos? You know, all of
20:37
Speaker 1: y'all been waiting, all of y'all been asking my opinion
20:39
Speaker 1: on this. Ain't nobody ask you nothing. You just wanted
20:43
Speaker 1: to give your opinion, and that's fine.
20:45
Speaker 2: But don't start it off like that.
20:47
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people been hitting me up.
20:49
Speaker 1: Nobody hits you up about nothing. But the internet will
20:53
Speaker 1: make you feel like you got to have an opinion
20:55
Speaker 1: about everything. That's why so many... half-baked ideas out there.
21:01
Speaker 1: That's why so many things that if people had any
21:03
Speaker 1: real integrity, they probably would walk back because they realize, like, oh, shoot,
21:07
Speaker 1: I was wrong about that. Nobody ever admits when they wrong.
21:09
Speaker 1: I've admitted publicly when I'm wrong a million times. I've
21:12
Speaker 1: apologized to people on the air a million times when
21:15
Speaker 1: I feel like I got it wrong. You don't ever
21:17
Speaker 1: see anybody do that that much.
21:21
Speaker 2: Like I was saying... Girl, keep going. I know it's rough, though.
21:26
Speaker 2: I literally have been there. I go in and out
21:29
Speaker 2: of there. I'm a frequent visitor of there, of that place.
21:33
Speaker 2: Keep talking about it. Keep writing things down while you're
21:37
Speaker 2: in it. Recording yourself while you're in it so that
21:39
Speaker 2: you can look back on and remember the feeling of
21:42
Speaker 2: being in it so you know what you never want
21:44
Speaker 2: to get back to again. You got this, though. We
21:45
Speaker 2: all going to be out here spinning that and shaking
21:47
Speaker 2: that when the music drop. This has been another episode
21:50
Speaker 2: of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I tell you guys,
21:52
Speaker 2: every single episode, y'all could be anywhere with any old body,
21:55
Speaker 2: but you guys choose to be right here with me,
21:58
Speaker 2: my lowriders. I appreciate y'all, and I'll catch you in
22:00
Speaker 2: my next one.