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EXCLUSIVE : Jay-Z’s Hair Transformation EXPLAINED: The Truth Behind the Locks, The Fro & The Viral Debate · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: George.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 2: It's Laura L Rosa and this is another episode of
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  Speaker 2: This is your Delliti dig on all things pop culture, entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: Baby.
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  Speaker 2: Now, y'all know, normally when I'm doing interviews, I go
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  Speaker 2: into the studio, but we have been on the go
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  Speaker 2: all week and shout out to Roots Picnic and Live
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  Speaker 1: We've been bringing you, guys some of the content.
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  Speaker 2: It has not stopped because right now we are about
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  Speaker 2: to do an exclusive a lot of conversation around jay
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  Speaker 2: Z and his hair and his afro and how do
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  Speaker 2: we go from the locks to the afro?
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  Speaker 1: So joining me here on the Latest with Laura Rosa.
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  Speaker 2: I have Aletti, who is a I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you call yourself a hairstylist, a lock smith, hastylist, YEA
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  Speaker 2: a hairstylist uh here in New York at a salon
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  Speaker 2: here in New York. Also that you talk about, I
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  Speaker 2: go to that salon, and you know, people have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of questions. Girl, They're like was the dreads or sorry,
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  Speaker 2: were the locks even real? Because how does this work?
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  Speaker 1: Very much real? It was like a process of eight
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  Speaker 1: years that he's been growing his hair.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, And yeah, it was a collab with this lady.
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  Speaker 2: Her name is Marie. She goes her Instagram name is
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  Speaker 2: Houston Locks. I think, yes, yep, yep. And it took
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  Speaker 2: a day. It was like six days to take out
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  Speaker 2: all of his locks. So okay, like walk me through
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  Speaker 2: when you say take out all of Jesse's locks, how
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  Speaker 2: are you combing it out?
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  Speaker 1: Or like what is the process to actually do that?
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  Speaker 2: It was she had used the Sacred conditioner with combination
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  Speaker 2: with the detangler's spread and then but when you're putting
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  Speaker 2: it on there, then like I guess for people who
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  Speaker 2: don't know and who don't have blocks, it's like we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to understand because you spend so much time growing
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  Speaker 2: them and they met together, right, so how do you.
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  Speaker 1: Just so it matts together? So it's like a combination.
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  Speaker 2: You have to remember your hair not your hair intertwines
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  Speaker 2: with one another when you leave it alone.
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  Speaker 1: It's just what it does.
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  Speaker 2: And in the process of that of like years of
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  Speaker 2: just intertwining with one another. It just if you're not
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  Speaker 2: maintenancing it by like doing it individually, which is a
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  Speaker 2: different style. But he had more of like a free
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  Speaker 2: form wicklock, so it was much easier to take out
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  Speaker 2: because it's just not as so many little blocks that
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  Speaker 2: you have to comb through.
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  Speaker 1: So his was like, you know, you just have bigger sections.
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  Speaker 2: And just like let the product penetrate the hair, and
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  Speaker 2: the more it penetrates your hair, it just gets softer
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  Speaker 2: and you just gently go through it and just gradually
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  Speaker 2: get to the root of the hair. So I'm a
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  Speaker 2: little tender headache, right, So if it was me, I'm like, like,
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  Speaker 2: is that something that's happened in real time too? Like
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  Speaker 2: it's like this hurts because you're used to people not
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  Speaker 2: picking in your hair stockling, so it's like, yeah, it's everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It's you haven't touched your head in like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so many years, so you have to be gentle.
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  Speaker 1: So you just have to take that in consideration as
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  Speaker 1: you're doing that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just have to gently like separate the
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  Speaker 2: hair and just go through it. You have to take
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  Speaker 2: care of the hair, like it's a Cashman sweater. You're
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  Speaker 2: just gonna throw your cashmet sweater in the washing machine.
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  Speaker 2: How many people worked on it at one time? Was
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  Speaker 2: it just one person at a time?
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  Speaker 1: It was oh, what's Marie?
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  Speaker 2: At first, just like you know, going through it, and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, it was like a team of us
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  Speaker 2: just making sure that it was properly taking out. And
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  Speaker 2: then so when you talk about the sacred, the tangler
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  Speaker 2: and the product, I know that first night when he
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  Speaker 2: did the preview show, he had the hoodie on and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of us were like, I mean, we just
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  Speaker 2: figured the dress were there, but because it was a preview,
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  Speaker 2: he just popped out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she's in and.
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  Speaker 2: Out like he just incognito. And that's why the hoodie
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  Speaker 2: was on. But what did he have a twist out
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  Speaker 2: at that time? No, it was a breakout, So it
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  Speaker 2: was yeah, so I braided his hair. I use I
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  Speaker 2: used the foam moose accommodation with the bomb from Sacred.
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  Speaker 1: From all this was all Sacred products.
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  Speaker 2: So now right, so what's the process. So that's the
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  Speaker 2: night before, so you do a braid out in his hair.
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  Speaker 2: How long does it take for you to braid out?
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  Speaker 2: Once the locks are out and his hair is washed.
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  Speaker 1: So we took the braik. The locks came out like
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  Speaker 1: a week prior to that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, this was like, yeah, this was not
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  Speaker 2: just a one day thing. This was like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: definitely anticipated. He definitely has a method to his madness.
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  Speaker 1: Ye.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so he definitely did this process, like I believe,
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  Speaker 2: like a week. It was like the twenty something and
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  Speaker 2: then I break it.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that his can I breathe? And absolutely yes.
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  Speaker 2: It was definitely taking care of his giving him a
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  Speaker 2: lot of TLC on his scalp, using the sacred jobs,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and just misiding not in sens hair, and
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  Speaker 2: just making sure that his scalp, which is you know
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  Speaker 2: the most important part of your hair, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: taking care of that before we braided him, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a week of just you know, pulling and
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  Speaker 2: tugging and.
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  Speaker 1: This and that. You know, I just don't want to
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  Speaker 1: put nobody in pain like that.
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  Speaker 2: I got you. Oh my god, I can't imagine all that.
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  Speaker 2: The it's like when you take out braids and you
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  Speaker 2: and you've had him in for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, God, I will never understand the pain.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, jay Z does now though, right, but guys
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  Speaker 2: like yes, it is a very like tender scalp feeling.
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  Speaker 1: But okay, So he has the braid out and I
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  Speaker 1: say he's a thug. He took it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, So then you have the braid out,
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  Speaker 2: the breidout is in his head, so it's there. I guess,
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  Speaker 2: like what for a few twenty four hours? Like how
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  Speaker 2: long is the breidout in for?
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  Speaker 1: For a week? A week?
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  Speaker 2: So then when you remove the braid out, is he
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  Speaker 2: doing products every day with the braidout, like to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that the breidout is not getting dry and madic No.
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  Speaker 2: I mean before I put the braids into his hair,
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  Speaker 2: I made sure that I properly took care of it. So,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I was using the sacred drops first
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  Speaker 2: and then I use the moisture seal and I put
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  Speaker 2: all of that into his hair, put some of the
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  Speaker 2: shield which is the new product line, just to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that while I was blowing it out, I you know,
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  Speaker 2: take care of the heat process. And then I braided
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  Speaker 2: his hair and then put some of the foam on
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  Speaker 2: top once the braids were in, and then just rug
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  Speaker 2: got to so he just had like straight backs correct
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  Speaker 2: at that point, okay. So then so now we're at
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  Speaker 2: the preview show that he did, which is that went
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  Speaker 2: viral because everybody saw be on the side, right, Beyonce
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  Speaker 2: on the side. So then that night do you start
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  Speaker 2: do you leave it alone? And in early the next
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  Speaker 2: morning do you take down jay Z's braid out?
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  Speaker 1: Like? How does that work?
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  Speaker 2: So we just put some phoam in his hair and
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  Speaker 2: then just took it out, make sure that the foam
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  Speaker 2: of course, was you know, dry completely, and then I
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  Speaker 2: use some of the of the bomb as I was
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  Speaker 2: taking it out just to keep that moisture in his hair.
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  Speaker 1: Got you?
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  Speaker 2: And then so because another thing too, is is like
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  Speaker 2: when you have the dreds in your hair for a while,
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  Speaker 2: even people that do braids for a while, if you
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  Speaker 2: try to go lower, because the rumor is he's going
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  Speaker 2: to go lower if he tries to do that, will
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  Speaker 2: there be lines in his scalp? Because I've seen that
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  Speaker 2: before too, Like how do you prevent that? No, there's
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  Speaker 2: no lines in your scalp when you have braids. I
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  Speaker 2: mean just your hair is kind of like you've uniformed it,
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  Speaker 2: so it would just move towards a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: But there's no permanent lines in your hair? Got you?
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything because I feel like I just got
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  Speaker 1: all up in the hair business.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything I haven't actually that you think is
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  Speaker 2: important for people to understand when it comes to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: lock removal, because there's so many myths online right now.
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  Speaker 2: Because yes, it's the key point to it, which is
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  Speaker 2: really important. It's just taking your time and making sure
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  Speaker 2: that the hair is properly hydrated and like just make
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  Speaker 2: sure that you're putting enough moisture into the hair because
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  Speaker 2: once you put moisture in their hair, it kind of
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  Speaker 2: just like helps that process to like dissolve it and
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  Speaker 2: like soften it and make the coma process easier.
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  Speaker 1: And just take your time. There's no rush, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to preserve the link.
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  Speaker 2: So are we going to see locks again? Like what
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  Speaker 2: happens now? Like is it just the fro like JZ
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  Speaker 2: fro forever? Like what happens now?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's oh my god, like what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everybody he wants to know do his thing. Man, he
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  Speaker 1: could lock it up. I heard you, all right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me.
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  Speaker 2: I really appreciate it, and I appreciate all the information
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  Speaker 2: I think we all learned. I mean, I knew that
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  Speaker 2: you could take down locks, but a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: did not know.
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  Speaker 1: They think that this is like a clone.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, girl, and it's not a lace front, so
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  Speaker 2: cut it out, noggs.
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  Speaker 1: That was another event that I saw to.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy that you have to let people know that
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  Speaker 2: jay Z would not put on a lace front. I
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  Speaker 2: mean that there's nothing about that it's given Marcie at all.
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  Speaker 2: But thank you, and it's beautiful, healthy, and it's thick.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to.
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  Speaker 2: Sacred because y'all got going, y'all got something going on.
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  Speaker 2: His hair is beautiful and it's really healthy and thick.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I could say.
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  Speaker 2: Was that your first time using the Sacred products. No,
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  Speaker 2: I've been using Sacred since it first launch. Got you
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  Speaker 2: and then like when you when you took that So
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  Speaker 2: like when jay Z's dress are taken out right and
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  Speaker 2: you're about you're prepping it to do the braids for
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  Speaker 2: the breidout, are you cutting?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a lot of dead hair?
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  Speaker 2: Like? Are you like you click the ends of it?
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  Speaker 2: Like because I just can't imagine like the transformation. I
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  Speaker 2: guess like you said it's healthy, but that actually listens.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful thick, healthy hair like the hair gods was definitely
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  Speaker 2: on his side. Yeah, because you know, some people take
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  Speaker 2: down things that have been on there, like whether it's
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  Speaker 2: locked or even if you have twist braids or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of dead hair because you leave
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  Speaker 2: it for some time. But yeah, okay, that's it. I
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  Speaker 2: promise I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: He ate that. Well.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I know you're headed back from the roost picnic.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're tired. We ain't got no voice if
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  Speaker 2: anybody is done, none, no voice. And the weather was
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  Speaker 2: all over the place this weekend too.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't help, right, Yes, but yeah, not it. And
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you for clearing all the things up.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out the sacred, though, I feel like people about
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  Speaker 2: to be trying some things now shot out.
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  Speaker 1: Sacred and them drops, baby, them drops. It's hot. So
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  Speaker 1: it's really like that, No, it's really like that.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen some things.
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  Speaker 1: I got some clients that.
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  Speaker 2: What we see, we saw. It's so nice to meet you, though,
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  Speaker 2: and I was say, congratulations, but I've seen it. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen it. You've been working for a while now. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: glad to be.
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  Speaker 1: Able to have this conversation with you.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, this educational moment with you when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to you know, locks and our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you. I'll talk to you soon. Thank you. Bye.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Lorana Rose, and I tell you, guys,
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  Speaker 2: every single episode, y'all could be anywhere with any old
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  Speaker 2: body talking about all of the things, but you, guys,
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  Speaker 2: she used to be right here with me, my lowriders.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, guys. I'll see you guys in my
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  Speaker 2: next episode.