Latest / The Breakfast Club / The Good Bad and Ugly ( Michelle Obama Speaks On Her Kids Earning Their Stripes and Diddy Update Trials)
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Gewiss.
- 0:02Speaker 2: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
- 0:04Speaker 2: and everybody.
- 0:06Speaker 3: You don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
- 0:07Speaker 3: Lauren came in.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Hey, guys, it's Laura Rosa and this is the latest
- 0:13Speaker 2: with Lauren L.
- 0:14Speaker 3: Rosa.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Now I'm your host, Laura L. Rosa, and we are
- 0:18Speaker 2: here for another episode Low Riders. I appreciate you guys
- 0:20Speaker 2: for joining me. Welcome on back, Welcome on back. If
- 0:24Speaker 2: you cannot tell already, I am energized today. Y'all know
- 0:28Speaker 2: we do the behind the scenes of the grind, behind
- 0:30Speaker 2: the scenes of the you know, the grind. Little checking
- 0:32Speaker 2: that we do here, not little, because everything is big
- 0:35Speaker 2: this season.
- 0:39Speaker 3: I am feeling rejuvenated.
- 0:42Speaker 2: I am excited to be here with you guys for
- 0:43Speaker 2: another episode. It isn't excited for the place that I'm
- 0:46Speaker 2: in in my life, good, bad, ugly and indifferent. And
- 0:50Speaker 2: the reason why I say this is because I think
- 0:52Speaker 2: this week, in these last couple weeks for me have
- 0:56Speaker 2: been I've been learning in real time how to balance
- 0:59Speaker 2: like schedule, and I think when people talk about that
- 1:02Speaker 2: and the skill to be able to plan and schedule,
- 1:04Speaker 2: they don't give it up for the girls who know
- 1:05Speaker 2: how to do it enough, okay, because I religiously am
- 1:09Speaker 2: not the planner of the friend group in the family,
- 1:11Speaker 2: even though you know, oldest daughters in the family somehow
- 1:14Speaker 2: become the family manager.
- 1:16Speaker 3: The long term planning and things of that nature are
- 1:18Speaker 3: not my specialty.
- 1:19Speaker 2: I'm really well at executing, almost kind of in CRISI
- 1:23Speaker 2: or crisis like, last minute on the spot, making decisions
- 1:26Speaker 2: boom boom boom, let's get it, finding a solution. But
- 1:29Speaker 2: what I'm learning so much more about when juggling so
- 1:32Speaker 2: many different things now is the beauty and the necessity
- 1:36Speaker 2: of long term planning and scheduling and you know, just
- 1:41Speaker 2: organization and having a time and place for preparation and
- 1:45Speaker 2: you know your thoughts and you know, a time for
- 1:48Speaker 2: work where you're all the way locked in, a time
- 1:50Speaker 2: for play, a time to say no to play, a
- 1:52Speaker 2: time to say no to work, those type of things.
- 1:54Speaker 2: So grateful to be experiencing that at this point in
- 1:57Speaker 2: my journey, because I feel like, you know, it's I'm
- 2:00Speaker 2: you know, I'm really really spiritual. And I've been telling
- 2:04Speaker 2: myself as I've been praying about some of the different
- 2:07Speaker 2: you know, walls and different things I've been coming up
- 2:10Speaker 2: against I've been asking God to guide me through them,
- 2:13Speaker 2: but I've also been saying to God, Okay, God, I
- 2:15Speaker 2: hear you. Okay, God, I hear you. Okay, God, I
- 2:18Speaker 2: hear you. Because this is not my first time having
- 2:20Speaker 2: like an inner conversation with myself about proper planning, preparation,
- 2:26Speaker 2: taking the time, not burning yourself out, prioritizing what's important
- 2:31Speaker 2: versus what's not. But I think in real time, I'm
- 2:34Speaker 2: having to make those decisions or else. And yesterday I
- 2:38Speaker 2: literally said that prayer to God, like God, I hear you.
- 2:41Speaker 2: I understand what you're saying to me, and I'm gonna
- 2:43Speaker 2: do it. And I did a lot of things yesterday.
- 2:47Speaker 2: I prepped for you know, my segment the day before
- 2:50Speaker 2: for the Breakfast Club, which I normally had done, but
- 2:53Speaker 2: I've been so exhausted just doing this trial thing. Now
- 2:57Speaker 2: we have the podcast and no excuses, more so just
- 3:00Speaker 2: growth thing, growing into places and spaces where I can't
- 3:04Speaker 2: operate like the woman I was before I got to
- 3:07Speaker 2: those places has been my testimony lately. So you know, today,
- 3:13Speaker 2: as I arrived here on the podcast, that's where I'm
- 3:16Speaker 2: at and that's how I'm feeling and I know a
- 3:17Speaker 2: lot of you guys can probably you know, everybody goes
- 3:20Speaker 2: through different changes in their life, and different elements and
- 3:22Speaker 2: different elevation points of your life require different version of you.
- 3:26Speaker 3: So that is where I'm at today currently.
- 3:30Speaker 2: But let's get on into the latest, because if we're
- 3:32Speaker 2: talking about elevation and you know, growth, we got to
- 3:37Speaker 2: talk about one of the most historically famous families in
- 3:40Speaker 2: our nation's history, the Obama family, because Michelle Obama has
- 3:45Speaker 2: recently come out and made her comments for the first
- 3:48Speaker 2: time about her daughter, Malia Malia Obama dropping her last name.
- 3:55Speaker 2: So there have been reports that came out that Malia
- 3:57Speaker 2: Obama used her middle name in so Mala as her
- 4:01Speaker 2: last name for credits of a short film that she
- 4:02Speaker 2: wrote and directed.
- 4:03Speaker 3: The short film was called The Heart.
- 4:05Speaker 2: This short film aired at the Sundance Festival in twenty
- 4:08Speaker 2: twenty four, and when the news broke, people were like,
- 4:11Speaker 2: oh wait, hold on, But I instantly understood what that was.
- 4:14Speaker 3: I knew. I'm like, Okay, these are girls who've been under.
- 4:18Speaker 2: This microscope because you know, their dad was the first
- 4:22Speaker 2: black president of the United States and their mother as
- 4:26Speaker 2: the first lady of the United States.
- 4:27Speaker 3: Is some amazing things for a nation.
- 4:28Speaker 2: But she was highly criticized as a black woman in
- 4:32Speaker 2: the White House, so of course their lives have been
- 4:35Speaker 2: not without scrutiny as well. And these are young girls
- 4:39Speaker 2: growing into women in front of our eyes, finding their
- 4:43Speaker 2: own way, and I'm sure wanting to make their own way.
- 4:46Speaker 2: So I had already kind of put two and two
- 4:48Speaker 2: together and knew that that's probably what it was.
- 4:50Speaker 3: But Michelle Obama came and cleared it up for us.
- 4:53Speaker 2: And here is what she said on an episode of
- 4:57Speaker 2: a podcast called Civiling Rivalry.
- 4:59Speaker 1: Let's say, listen, our daughters are twenty five and twenty three.
- 5:04Speaker 1: They are young adult women, but they definitely went through
- 5:08Speaker 1: a period in their teen years where it was the
- 5:11Speaker 1: push away, you know, we want to you know. I
- 5:14Speaker 1: mean they're still doing that as and you guys know,
- 5:18Speaker 1: this is the children of parents who are known. You know,
- 5:22Speaker 1: you're trying to distinguish yourself. I mean, it is very
- 5:25Speaker 1: important for my kids to feel like they've earned what
- 5:30Speaker 1: they are getting in the world. And they don't want
- 5:33Speaker 1: people to assume that they don't work hard, that they're
- 5:36Speaker 1: just naturally just handed things. They're very sensitive to that
- 5:41Speaker 1: they want to be their own people. You know Malia
- 5:44Speaker 1: who started in film, I mean her first project, she
- 5:48Speaker 1: took off her last name, and we were like, they're
- 5:51Speaker 1: still going to know it's you, Malina, you know, but
- 5:54Speaker 1: we respected the fact that, you know, she's trying to
- 5:57Speaker 1: make her way. But now as they're older, I think
- 6:01Speaker 1: they are embracing our parenting principles.
- 6:06Speaker 3: They you know, they they have a clearer.
- 6:09Speaker 1: Understanding of why we did a lot of what we did.
- 6:14Speaker 3: Now.
- 6:14Speaker 2: I love that because number one, I think that there's
- 6:18Speaker 2: always this conversation amongst black families and about black families
- 6:24Speaker 2: on nepotism. And I love the black nepotism conversation because
- 6:29Speaker 2: I feel like whenever we get to have that black
- 6:34Speaker 2: nepotism conversation, we get to argue about why if we
- 6:39Speaker 2: worked hard and we earn the money, our kids get
- 6:41Speaker 2: to get the silver spoon too. But I also think
- 6:44Speaker 2: that for me playing Devil's Advocate, I think that it
- 6:47Speaker 2: would have been a beautiful thing to see Malia Obama
- 6:49Speaker 2: put Malia Obama in the credits. So I think it
- 6:51Speaker 2: would have been a beautiful thing, you know, for her
- 6:54Speaker 2: to say, Hey, my dad is Barack Obama, my mom
- 6:56Speaker 2: is Michelle Obama.
- 6:58Speaker 3: I want to get in the film Dad, Mom, who
- 7:00Speaker 3: can you call?
- 7:00Speaker 2: Because I think that that is what the generational wealth
- 7:03Speaker 2: of you know, being people, not even you know, black
- 7:07Speaker 2: people when I'm speaking to that because I'm a black woman,
- 7:09Speaker 2: but people in general, red, white, or blue. The whole
- 7:13Speaker 2: point in you know, breaking down these barriers and breaking
- 7:17Speaker 2: glass ceilings and walking through these doors and sitting at
- 7:20Speaker 2: these tables or building your own table is so that
- 7:23Speaker 2: a person behind you doesn't have to fight or break
- 7:27Speaker 2: through or build or carry the weight of doing so
- 7:30Speaker 2: many of these different things in the way that you
- 7:33Speaker 2: have to. And I you know, for me, when it
- 7:37Speaker 2: comes to black children, and especially in like creative spaces
- 7:40Speaker 2: and you know, artsy spaces, it's always about like, I
- 7:43Speaker 2: want to claim my own right because you know, your
- 7:45Speaker 2: art is your art, and that's what you're trying to protect.
- 7:48Speaker 2: But I love when I see what Lebron and you know,
- 7:54Speaker 2: Brownie Junior are doing. It's like I'm here, I'm talented,
- 7:58Speaker 2: I deserve to be here, and I could have worked
- 7:59Speaker 2: to get here, and I did work to be here.
- 8:01Speaker 2: But at the same time, my dad is Lebron James.
- 8:04Speaker 2: But I love that Michelle Obama and Barack Obama give
- 8:06Speaker 2: their daughters, from what it seems like on the outside
- 8:08Speaker 2: looking in that space, to be their own people, to
- 8:12Speaker 2: you know, wedge their own you know, sword in society.
- 8:15Speaker 2: But they're honest with them. They're like, look, no matter
- 8:17Speaker 2: what you call yourself, Malia, they're gonna know it's you, baby,
- 8:20Speaker 2: like we are who we are at this point. But
- 8:22Speaker 2: they still allow her to go through life and understand
- 8:25Speaker 2: that and experience that on their own. Something about that
- 8:29Speaker 2: Obama family that just makes me, you know, like I
- 8:32Speaker 2: want to strive to have that, that regalness and that love,
- 8:36Speaker 2: and its still that in my children with my husband.
- 8:38Speaker 2: I look at the Obamas as that. And Michelle Obama
- 8:42Speaker 2: just announced her book that will go and sell November fourth,
- 8:47Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.
- 8:48Speaker 3: It is called The Look.
- 8:49Speaker 2: She says, during our family's time in the White House,
- 8:51Speaker 2: the way I looked was constantly being discussed and dissected,
- 8:55Speaker 2: what I wore, how my hair was styled. For a
- 8:57Speaker 2: while now, I've been wanting to reclaim more of that story,
- 9:00Speaker 2: to share it in my own way. I'm thankful to
- 9:02Speaker 2: be at a stage in life where I feel comfortable
- 9:04Speaker 2: expressing myself freely wearing what I love and doing what
- 9:07Speaker 2: I love feels true to me, and I'm excited to
- 9:10Speaker 2: share some of what I've learned along the way. My
- 9:13Speaker 2: new book, The Look, comes out on November fourth. It's
- 9:16Speaker 2: a reflection on my lifelong journey with fashion, hair and beauty.
- 9:19Speaker 2: I am really excited about that as a woman, a
- 9:21Speaker 2: Black woman in a very public space that you know,
- 9:25Speaker 2: I've been criticized for my outfits, whether they're too seductive
- 9:28Speaker 2: or not in my personal time or you know, my
- 9:32Speaker 2: hair on camera, my makeup on camera is you know,
- 9:35Speaker 2: it's the small things, and I think all women get it,
- 9:37Speaker 2: but I do think, you know, speaking from the perspective
- 9:39Speaker 2: of a black woman, just like a lot of other things,
- 9:42Speaker 2: there is the feeling of I can't not get that right.
- 9:45Speaker 2: Hair has to be late, beauty has to be on point.
- 9:48Speaker 2: Outfits have to be very aware and cognizant of the
- 9:51Speaker 2: room that I'm walking into because I might not get
- 9:54Speaker 2: another chance to show up in this way. So excited
- 9:57Speaker 2: to hear you know what she's teaching this book because
- 10:01Speaker 2: Michelle Obama got man what I deal with a little
- 10:03Speaker 2: bit on social media, and nothing compare with to our
- 10:06Speaker 2: first Lady Michelle Obama and what she experienced while being
- 10:09Speaker 2: in the White House.
- 10:10Speaker 3: So definitely will be on the lookout for that.
- 10:14Speaker 2: But I want to also then pivot in the latest
- 10:16Speaker 2: because you guys know that we've been keeping you up
- 10:18Speaker 2: to date on the trial here in New York where
- 10:22Speaker 2: Sean COLMBS Diddy is on trial for a plethora of things.
- 10:26Speaker 2: There's counts of trafficking, you know, all of these things,
- 10:29Speaker 2: and I've been going to the courthouse daily, and now
- 10:33Speaker 2: I've decided that I will go, of course, and keep
- 10:35Speaker 2: up with what is going on in the court whether
- 10:38Speaker 2: I'm there or not through transcripts and court reporters. But
- 10:41Speaker 2: I do want to make sure that the days when
- 10:43Speaker 2: you guys see me there because I do have dual
- 10:46Speaker 2: triple rolls, like I'm here on the podcast with y'all,
- 10:48Speaker 2: the lowwriters, we you know, at the.
- 10:50Speaker 3: Breakfast club, we in court. It's a lot to figure out.
- 10:54Speaker 2: Prioritizing, I told y'all at the beginning of this has
- 10:56Speaker 2: been a thing that I've had to learn because of
- 11:00Speaker 2: the voice in the you know, the different areas that
- 11:03Speaker 2: all this coverage has been able to, you know, place
- 11:05Speaker 2: me and I'm so grateful for that, but I want
- 11:07Speaker 2: to make sure it's effective. So not every day am
- 11:10Speaker 2: I at the actual court. But y'all gonna still hear me.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Y'all gonna hear me though. So yesterday in court, there
- 11:18Speaker 2: was a woman who testified. Her name is Brianna Banna Bangalan.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Now this woman, Cassie had spoke a lot about her
- 11:27Speaker 2: and her testimony and talked about, you know, they were
- 11:30Speaker 2: a really close friend. She was actually a designer as well,
- 11:33Speaker 2: a fashion designer, friends with Cassie, and she experienced a
- 11:39Speaker 2: very allegedly a very violent and physical interaction with Ditty,
- 11:45Speaker 2: you know, while Cassie was present that Cassie spoke to
- 11:48Speaker 2: and now she is on the stand telling her story
- 11:51Speaker 2: herself this week. So she alleged that Diddy held her
- 11:55Speaker 2: on a seventeen story balcony back in September of twenty sixteen,
- 11:59Speaker 2: and she testified that Diddy threw her on the balcony furniture.
- 12:03Speaker 2: She ales that she was left with a bruise on
- 12:05Speaker 2: the back of her leg as well as neck and
- 12:07Speaker 2: back pain, and that Diddy said to her allegedly in
- 12:10Speaker 2: the midst of all of this, in the midst of
- 12:12Speaker 2: all this rage that he's a devil and he could
- 12:14Speaker 2: kill her. And that was on a whole different occasion.
- 12:19Speaker 2: So you have the back balcony incident, then you have
- 12:21Speaker 2: the whole the devil I could kill you, that whole incident,
- 12:25Speaker 2: and what what she is speaking to is an incident
- 12:27Speaker 2: where Diddy basically came into the into Cassie's home.
- 12:32Speaker 3: And the way that uh, you know.
- 12:35Speaker 2: The prosecutors or the government set it up when talking
- 12:38Speaker 2: about this woman and that experience was that, uh Diddy
- 12:43Speaker 2: was at a point allegedly where he was trying to
- 12:46Speaker 2: keep Cassie from drug abuse and different friend groups and
- 12:51Speaker 2: you know, she was just she was she was spiraling.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Uh.
- 12:55Speaker 2: The government of alleged that they were both using drugs
- 12:57Speaker 2: and they were both doing these different things, but that
- 13:01Speaker 2: actually Cassie had begun to utilize drugs and do different
- 13:04Speaker 2: things a bit too much and he was trying to
- 13:07Speaker 2: almost like safeguard her. Cassie and Miss Brianna tell a
- 13:13Speaker 2: whole different story.
- 13:15Speaker 3: They talk about this, and this was day sixteen of
- 13:17Speaker 3: the trial.
- 13:19Speaker 2: They talk about this as you know, him coming in,
- 13:22Speaker 2: you know, on alleged drunken rage and just being upset
- 13:27Speaker 2: about things that were not in Brianna's control whatsoever. And
- 13:30Speaker 2: she also talked about not even wanting to meet Diddy
- 13:32Speaker 2: at one point when Cassie was trying to introduce them,
- 13:35Speaker 2: because she didn't like some of the things that she
- 13:39Speaker 2: had been, you know, just seeing from kind of like
- 13:41Speaker 2: a third I view. But she did Bona is what
- 13:45Speaker 2: they call her, Cassie's friend that took the stand. She
- 13:47Speaker 2: did talk about them, you know, being on drugs that
- 13:51Speaker 2: you know, within that incident, her and Cassie, she alleged,
- 13:54Speaker 2: and the Diddy's defense team came in and tried to
- 13:57Speaker 2: you know, poke holes in her story because she couldn't remembering.
- 14:00Speaker 2: She couldn't remember where she told the government that the
- 14:03Speaker 2: incident took place at. She couldn't remember what drugs she
- 14:06Speaker 2: told them that she was on. But two, I mean,
- 14:11Speaker 2: if you're the government, it's like, okay, of course she's
- 14:14Speaker 2: telling you that they were on drugs. She just can't
- 14:17Speaker 2: remember all of the drugs. And it wasn't maybe as
- 14:19Speaker 2: much as you guys are depicting, right. Cassie came prior
- 14:22Speaker 2: to this and had a very in depth conversation about
- 14:24Speaker 2: how extensive her drug use was. Having to go to
- 14:27Speaker 2: rehab doing drugs with her friend Bonna, who we are
- 14:31Speaker 2: now hearing from. Cassie herself, said there's a whole year
- 14:34Speaker 2: she talked about it. She said, you know, twenty seventeen
- 14:37Speaker 2: is basically a blur because of the drugs that she
- 14:40Speaker 2: was doing. So I don't know how effective this is
- 14:43Speaker 2: on a jury to you know, for the prosecutors to
- 14:47Speaker 2: present this information that way where it's like, Okay, he's
- 14:49Speaker 2: in this rage, he comes in, a person is physically harmed,
- 14:52Speaker 2: the scared. There's a whole knife fight that breaks out
- 14:56Speaker 2: allegedly at some point between Diddy and Cassie as well,
- 14:59Speaker 2: and this was like a normal thing that they, you know,
- 15:01Speaker 2: allegedly used to just do. Because this is you know,
- 15:04Speaker 2: allegedly Cassie fighting back against the rage and just how
- 15:07Speaker 2: did he would handle things? But there's all these things right,
- 15:10Speaker 2: Like I'm saying all that briefly, and if you guys
- 15:13Speaker 2: can't tell by now, I feel like yesterday's testimony testimony,
- 15:17Speaker 2: it was there, but it's not that something I'm gonna
- 15:18Speaker 2: spend a lot of time on.
- 15:20Speaker 3: There are all these big salacious things right.
- 15:23Speaker 2: There's knives, there's the devil, there starts to you know,
- 15:26Speaker 2: allegedly does to kill someone. And then you also have
- 15:31Speaker 2: to enter the fact that you know, on all parties involved,
- 15:36Speaker 2: there was conversation prior to this woman taking a stand
- 15:39Speaker 2: of all of this drug use, which was confirmed by multa,
- 15:43Speaker 2: including Cassie herself, which was confirmed by multiple people.
- 15:46Speaker 3: So it's like, how do you, as Diddy's.
- 15:49Speaker 2: Team, effectively make a juror think that this witness is
- 15:52Speaker 2: not credible?
- 15:54Speaker 3: How when you've heard.
- 15:56Speaker 2: Over and over and over prior to her getting to
- 15:58Speaker 2: understand a lot of people don't remember some things because
- 16:02Speaker 2: of the drugs that they were doing or the trauma
- 16:03Speaker 2: that they experienced. That's been my biggest question here, and
- 16:07Speaker 2: I think that's why the government hasn't rested their case
- 16:09Speaker 2: yet is because I think they want to. I mean,
- 16:12Speaker 2: they beyond the shadow of a doubt, right is their goal.
- 16:16Speaker 2: But they're trying to feel in color in every little
- 16:18Speaker 2: blank inch that they can because that is what they
- 16:21Speaker 2: have to do or this might not be a win
- 16:24Speaker 2: for them. Because if I'm a durer, I'm thinking about
- 16:27Speaker 2: it like, Okay, yet that happened, right, Like Diddy's team
- 16:33Speaker 2: is alleging this woman that he came into this rage
- 16:36Speaker 2: and came at you know, this bondom woman the way
- 16:39Speaker 2: he did because he was protecting Cassie from drug use
- 16:43Speaker 2: and these things. But at the same time, everything else
- 16:46Speaker 2: that we've seen physically from you know, Diddy that has
- 16:51Speaker 2: been alleged and you know, just the power, the influence,
- 16:54Speaker 2: the anger, all of these things has been so big,
- 16:56Speaker 2: and we've heard it from so many different angles.
- 16:58Speaker 3: How do you fight against that? I keep saying it.
- 17:01Speaker 2: I really keep saying it because I think that that's when,
- 17:04Speaker 2: you know, we'll kind of get answers to a lot
- 17:06Speaker 2: of these questions or not and really know where the
- 17:09Speaker 2: you know, the verdict in this case is going to go.
- 17:11Speaker 2: But I'm really interested to see what Diddy's defense is
- 17:14Speaker 2: going to be to all these things. And we've seen
- 17:17Speaker 2: some of it, right, like the angling of you know,
- 17:20Speaker 2: how they position their questioning when they cross examine the
- 17:23Speaker 2: witnesses and things of that nature.