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Beyoncé’s Met Gala Takeover, Megan Thee Stallion’s Exit · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: this is how I've been describing it. It's like the
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Speaker 1: I literally can't put it into words. But someone said
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Speaker 1: saying thank you to everyone who championed me being awarded,
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Speaker 1: invite only, like it is very exclusive. And on one
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Speaker 1: of those phone calls today, the person said to me,
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Speaker 1: it's like our own Wakanda, and I was like, that's it, Like, yes,
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Speaker 1: it is like our own Wakanda, but it's like the
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Speaker 1: Wakanda of like power for black women. So that has
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Speaker 1: been amazing. And I think when you're when you're working
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Speaker 1: and you're achieving and you're figuring out these new levels
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Speaker 1: of success, like you need you need people that have
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Speaker 1: experienced things already and have gotten through these things. And
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Speaker 1: whether they failed or they you know, succeeded through these things,
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Speaker 1: they're still here and they're still thriving and they're doing well,
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Speaker 1: but they have a lot of knowledge to impart. I'm
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Speaker 1: always here for the substance of things, Like everything I do,
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Speaker 1: I'm always thinking about, like, you know, how can I
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Speaker 1: make sure that like this is actually going to lead
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Speaker 1: to something that is long lasting. I also always am
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Speaker 1: battling against the fear and just the mindset of like
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Speaker 1: what if this all goes away tomorrow, which is partly
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Speaker 1: trauma and partly like anxiousness because of what I've never
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Speaker 1: experienced before and seeing it happen, happening and unfolding in
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Speaker 1: my life. But even those conversations, like I was able
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Speaker 1: to have so much of those conversations with these women
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Speaker 1: you know, who were intended, who in attendance, who a
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Speaker 1: lot of them like me, they're reaching success for the
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Speaker 1: and like they're like the first people in their immediate
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Speaker 1: families to do so, and you know, in certain friend
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Speaker 1: groups to do so. Like it's just a very different
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Speaker 1: experience that's happening daily, and a lot of times, like
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Speaker 1: when I'm going through it, there's not too many people
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Speaker 1: that I can pick up the phone and describe things to.
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Speaker 1: I have a lot of people that I can call
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Speaker 1: and that will listen that's not what I'm saying, but
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Speaker 1: who can actually listen and advise and guide me through it.
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Speaker 1: It's getting a little bit different because of the things
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Speaker 1: that I'm getting to experience in this conference and accelerate
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Speaker 1: her and this tribe of people that I've now been
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Speaker 1: introduced to and you know, hugged on a love don't buy.
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Speaker 1: I'm just excited to be able to have that in
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Speaker 1: a real way. I learned so much, not even just
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Speaker 1: in the panel discussions and the presentations, but in common
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Speaker 1: casual conversations just in the elevator, walk into the bar,
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Speaker 1: sitting at the bar, you know, grabbing food at the
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Speaker 1: restaurants in the hotel, and just joining conversations. Like I
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Speaker 1: went by myself, so I had no choice but to
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Speaker 1: like just talk and meet people. And I was actually
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Speaker 1: an easy thing for me. But you know, a lot
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Speaker 1: of times you walk into these rooms and these people
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Speaker 1: are so successful, you like, what the hell do we
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Speaker 1: have in common? So I just sit back and listen
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Speaker 1: and you know, and I was doing a lot of that,
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Speaker 1: but the conversations were so inviting. It was like, no,
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Speaker 1: we want to hear your perspective too, And I don't know,
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Speaker 1: it's just it's just such a good space to be in,
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Speaker 1: to be figuring things out and now be able to
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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call people who look like you,
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Speaker 1: who have experiencing things the way you have experienced that
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Speaker 1: are genuinely there to help you, but have gotten through
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Speaker 1: So it is the first Monday in May, but baby,
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Speaker 1: the people are already calling it the first Monday and
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Speaker 1: they b e y And that is because Beyonce is
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Speaker 1: making her return to the met gala after ten years now.
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Speaker 1: The theme this year is costume Art, and Beyonce is
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Speaker 1: one of the co chairs of the gala, along with
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Speaker 1: Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and a Winterur. And you're probably wondering, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, if you're not a fashion person, if you're
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Speaker 1: not a person who's into all these celebrity red carpets
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Speaker 1: and the things, why you even care about this right now?
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Speaker 1: There are a few reasons, and I'm gonna break it
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Speaker 1: down to y'all. So fans number one of the gala
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Speaker 1: are talking about the fashion and they expect to see,
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Speaker 1: you know, cultural firepower that is celebrated and born by
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Speaker 1: a lot of the icons that you'll see on the
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Speaker 1: Met Gala carpet, from people in music to sports, to
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Speaker 1: fashion to film. But the more important conversation here that translates,
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Speaker 1: you know, even far beyond the celebrity of all of this,
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Speaker 1: is the storytelling that will happen. And how amazing that
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Speaker 1: that storytelling happens on such a big platform like the
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Speaker 1: Met Galleery carpet, because millions of people around the world,
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Speaker 1: whether they want to or not, we'll get to see
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Speaker 1: these photos but also hear the conversation around it. So
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Speaker 1: with costume art in the cultures that they've picked, what
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Speaker 1: I'm predicting what happened is we will see a lot
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Speaker 1: of deep storytelling that makes you culturally tap into, you know,
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Speaker 1: the history of certain people in their races and their
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Speaker 1: origins and their religions, and there's things that we as
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Speaker 1: people like to separate ourselves from. So like we like
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Speaker 1: to think that, you know, because I'm black and because
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Speaker 1: this person's white, we don't have anything in common. Or
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Speaker 1: like I was even talking to you guys, like the
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Speaker 1: wealth gap of the women in the room that I
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Speaker 1: was just with. My first reaction was what do I
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Speaker 1: have in common with these ladies? But it's like when
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Speaker 1: you really get into the storytelling and to the background,
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Speaker 1: into all the winds, the losses, you know, just the
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Speaker 1: culture of it all, you'll find it a lot of
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Speaker 1: times there's a lot more similarities and differences. And that's
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Speaker 1: why I love the power of storytelling. But I love
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Speaker 1: it through fashion because you can't deny it. You can't
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Speaker 1: deny what's happening right there in front of you. But
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Speaker 1: also through art and fashion, people will look at things
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Speaker 1: and take things so many different ways. So there'll be
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Speaker 1: so much conversation that comes out of it. And when
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Speaker 1: you talk about like a Beyonce right or a Venus Williams,
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Speaker 1: these women are people who have championed, you know, the
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Speaker 1: storytelling throughout their whole careers and we've all clung to that.
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Speaker 1: Like Beyonce information when she used you know, that time
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Speaker 1: and that whole rollout to address Hurricane Katrina and race
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Speaker 1: relations and black beauty and the Black is King, she
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Speaker 1: chowcased a lot of African heritage, afrocentric fashion and fashion
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Speaker 1: designers braids being two knots. Beyonce has always been one
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Speaker 1: to celebrate black designers, but during the Renaissance tour, I
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Speaker 1: feel like a lot of people paid more attention to it.
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Speaker 1: She spotlighted a LaQuan Smith, she you know, even around Juneteenth.
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Speaker 1: She did so much within that space. And LaQuan Smith
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Speaker 1: is somebody who you know. He is a young Black
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Speaker 1: designer who has been making his way in this colature
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Speaker 1: world for a very very long time. Him and Sergio
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Speaker 1: Hudson right now are like the two black designers that
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Speaker 1: people point to most in the coature space. It is
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Speaker 1: a very hard space to live and thrive in couture
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Speaker 1: is not very welcoming of us, of black people, of
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Speaker 1: black designers, of black body shape, and it has opened up
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Speaker 1: a lot more, but it is still what it is.
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Speaker 1: So her championing those people mean so much. Cowboy Carter,
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Speaker 1: we know that that was like the cowboy, the Western,
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Speaker 1: the country music era where she was able to through
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Speaker 1: her fashion, through her partnership with Levi's, through her music,
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Speaker 1: really spot like black people's place in country music and
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Speaker 1: a lot of the things that we originated in country
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Speaker 1: music and just our roots there and why we actually belong.
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Speaker 1: When you think about Venus and Serena Williams, you think
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Speaker 1: a lot about their fashion because people have always talked
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Speaker 1: a lot about you know them on the court and
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Speaker 1: how well they play and all the you know, the
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Speaker 1: barriers that they break. These are two young black women
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Speaker 1: from Compton, right, so there's always that conversation around them,
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Speaker 1: both positive and negative. But they get a lot of
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Speaker 1: shit for their body silhouettes. For I remember, you know
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Speaker 1: them wearing you know, certain fits and cuts and catsuits
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Speaker 1: was a conversation at one point, and they they've used
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Speaker 1: it to their vantage, like they've kind of flipped it
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Speaker 1: on their head. I remember when I went to the
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Speaker 1: US Open in twenty twenty five, Venus Williams. Actually she
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Speaker 1: did a tribute to Althia Gibson, who was the first
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Speaker 1: black woman in tennis who was able to play at
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Speaker 1: the heights of something like a US Open. And she
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Speaker 1: wore a white polo and she had the white pleta
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Speaker 1: skirt on. And for a lot of people who don't
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Speaker 1: know much about Althea Gibson, and I didn't at the time,
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Speaker 1: if I'm being honest, When I saw the Vogue article
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Speaker 1: with her giving the nod to Althia Gibson and talking
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Speaker 1: about Athia Gibson in the interview, that made me understand
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Speaker 1: more culturally, right, And I'm there at the US Open,
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Speaker 1: so you have Althia Gibson memorials set up everywhere her
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Speaker 1: family's there. It was such a tribute. So everything symbolically
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Speaker 1: is making you go back, learn research, understand regardless if
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Speaker 1: you're white or black. And that's what costuming is art
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Speaker 1: is all about. And I think we're going to get
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Speaker 1: to see so much of that on the Mett galliad
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Speaker 1: carpet that I am really really excited about. Just with
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Speaker 1: the conversations culturally, it will spark and I will say
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Speaker 1: Beyonce doesn't lend her time or her energy, and especially
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Speaker 1: not her presence to any old thing. So if she's
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Speaker 1: going to show up and it has been over a
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Speaker 1: decade since she has been there, y'all know she is
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Speaker 1: about to start a hell of a conversation. So I'm
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Speaker 1: very excited to see what that will be. I know
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Speaker 1: a lot of the Beehi. I believe that this is
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Speaker 1: the start of Act three. And her team has come
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Speaker 1: out and said that there is no music done. People
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Speaker 1: believe that we're going to get a single around the
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Speaker 1: met Gala, that there will be some visual stuff that
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Speaker 1: drops around the met Gala with her music. But I
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Speaker 1: just know if she's showing up, that alone is going
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Speaker 1: to be a conversation and a start of something. Because
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Speaker 1: she don't go anywhere, She don't just go anywhere, and
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Speaker 1: when she's somewhere, there's a reason. There is an importance
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Speaker 1: around it. And the celebrities have been running around all
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Speaker 1: weekend the celebration of the Metgala, so you have so
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Speaker 1: many people that will be in attendance. Serena Williams. I
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Speaker 1: mentioned Venus is one of the col chairs, but Serena
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Speaker 1: williams Is is set to attend. I know Kim Kardashian
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Speaker 1: and Lewis Hamilton are set to attend. Zendaya, who we
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Speaker 1: always look forward to on the carpet, reportedly is not
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Speaker 1: attending this year. I saw the Met Gala release a
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Speaker 1: statement about that, but there's no reason yet as to
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Speaker 1: why I did see reporting that. You know, she's just
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Speaker 1: so busy right now, but the fact that she's in
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Speaker 1: New York and she's not attending has become, you know,
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Speaker 1: a conversation if people wanted to know why people love
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Speaker 1: to see Zindea and her stylist, law Roach, and just
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Speaker 1: their combination of the things on the carpet. I'm looking
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Speaker 1: forward to, you know, Cardi b and Colin Carter on
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Speaker 1: the carpet. I know Cardi is in New York. She
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Speaker 1: went to go see Meg thee Stallion on Broadway to
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Speaker 1: support megda Stallion's final night there. So I'm looking forward
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Speaker 1: to a lot of that, but deep, more deep though,
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Speaker 1: Like I love it when we can tell story through
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Speaker 1: eye catching things and educate people and pull people up.
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Speaker 1: And I think that this year's Met Gala, just like
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Speaker 1: last year's Met Gala when they did the dandy theme,
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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty five will be that, and people complain
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Speaker 1: about how the Met Gala has become just so like
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Speaker 1: surface level and no real storytelling. I think this will
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Speaker 1: be another year of that storytelling. Now moving on into
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Speaker 1: our next story in the latest, your girl, Cardi b
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Speaker 1: as I just mentioned, is in New York. It's Met
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Speaker 1: Gala Monday, but last weekend she went to see Magda
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Speaker 1: Sallion close out her role in Mulin Rouge as Zidler.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to Cardi's review of Magda Sallion
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Speaker 1: on Broadway.
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Speaker 2: And making that amazzy and she did amazing. I don't
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Speaker 2: know if she ever gonna do it again, but I
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Speaker 2: thought she was gonna do it longer. And then I'm like,
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Speaker 2: oh shit, and I promise her I saw her. I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna come. I saw her. I've been telling her like,
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Speaker 2: just like, were you in my city, I'm gonna come
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Speaker 2: see you. Watch Okay, So you think I'll be Cavern,
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Speaker 2: It's like, all right, if you're in New York, I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna be seeing you. Ain't got I'll be here. When
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Speaker 2: I be in La or other places, I don't really
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Speaker 2: go out too much because if I'm in another state.
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Speaker 2: It's for past who will start you work related? If
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Speaker 2: I'm in New York, I'm coming to get you. It
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Speaker 2: was so amazing. I hope she does it again.
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Speaker 1: I told y'all a couple of weeks ago that Meg
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Speaker 1: the Sion was actually really, really good. And I keep
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Speaker 1: saying actually because a lot of celebrities get on Broadway
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Speaker 1: and you can tell that they are the celebrity on
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Speaker 1: the cast, like it's just they don't blend as well
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Speaker 1: as you think they would. But she did an amazing job,
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Speaker 1: like a really amazing job. But you know, in recent weeks,
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Speaker 1: with her announcing the breakup between her and Klay Thompson,
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Speaker 1: she's decided to leave and not finish out her full
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Speaker 1: run on Broadway. She was supposed to be there until
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Speaker 1: May seventeenth, but May first was her final date. And
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Speaker 1: I thought that it was nice to see that people
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Speaker 1: came out and supported her because I know she needs
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Speaker 1: it right now, Like I can't imagine, like you're in
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Speaker 1: this public eye, you're going through this big breakup with
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Speaker 1: To be fair, she did announce, we didn't even know
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Speaker 1: what's happening, but still it's there, and you got Cardi
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Speaker 1: B coming out to support you. Candy birds coming out
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Speaker 1: to support you. You know, the girl's rallying around her,
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Speaker 1: but also her cast rallying around her too. They sung
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Speaker 1: her really sweet goodbye song that I thought was cute
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Speaker 1: backstage as the night closed. Let's take a listen. I
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Speaker 1: wish the Sali in the best. I don't know what's
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Speaker 1: coming up next. I also don't know. I'm still trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out, like the why, because the why behind
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Speaker 1: her revealing that her and Klay Thompson had broke up
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Speaker 1: in a way that she did. I thought that maybe
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Speaker 1: we were about to see him pop out with another woman,
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Speaker 1: or some allegations him running around, some photos pop up,
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Speaker 1: and she was just trying to get ahead of a story.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to believe that it was just all
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Speaker 1: emotion because she's Magda Salian like girl, Yeah, your microphone
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Speaker 1: is big, but she's human and I get that. I'm
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Speaker 1: just really still trying to figure out why, Like why
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Speaker 1: cause all of the fanfare and the conversation around you
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Speaker 1: and your relationship when we didn't even have to know
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Speaker 1: what was happening, if nothing was about to break right,
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Speaker 1: But that question still hasn't been answered. I do know
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Speaker 1: that there will be some things announced for her coming
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Speaker 1: up very soon that I'm hearing or supposed to be
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Speaker 1: really big, so maybe it points, you know, and paints
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Speaker 1: a better picture speaking of you know, art and costuming,
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Speaker 1: paints a better picture of like the why and what's happening.
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Speaker 1: So you know, we'll be tuned in and I'll keep
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Speaker 1: you guys updated with the latest. But yeah, I wish
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Speaker 1: Magda Sallion the best and all of this. I know
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Speaker 1: the people are really upset about everything that has happened
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Speaker 1: because people feel like she should have kept her mouth
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Speaker 1: shut and not revealed her breakup and you know, talking
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Speaker 1: about how unfair it is to Clay. But regardless of
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Speaker 1: where you stand on whether she should have or should
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Speaker 1: not have, I'm telling y'all now, it's hard to tell
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Speaker 1: to have to tell people that what you believe would
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Speaker 1: be something isn't that. And I can't imagine doing it
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Speaker 1: as Meg Dea Sali in a Superstar. So I'm saying
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Speaker 1: we give her some grades, but to each his own.
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Speaker 1: I'm Laura Rosa. This has been another episode of the
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Speaker 1: Latest with Laura mo Rosa, your daily dig on all
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Speaker 1: things pop culture, entertainment, news and all of the conversations
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Speaker 1: that shake the room. I will be back tomorrow because
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Speaker 1: we are going to have to talk about the carpet
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Speaker 1: that actually happened, and I will have some audio from
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Speaker 1: an expert. I'm going to be sitting down and having
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Speaker 1: a conversation with one of my homegirls, who you know,
17:55
Speaker 1: speaking of the girls supporting girls have been supporting me,
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Speaker 1: and I've been supporting her for some time. Her name
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Speaker 1: is Alexis Bennett, and we actually met. I just graduated college.
18:07
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I actually hadn't even graduated.
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Speaker 1: I was a junior in college. I think she had
18:12
Speaker 1: just finished college, and we were trying to figure out
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Speaker 1: work in New York and we went to this Cosmopolitan magazine, Fun,
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Speaker 1: Fashion and Fearless conference and we were the only black
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Speaker 1: girls there. So I walked over to her and her
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Speaker 1: friend and just said, Hey, it's only us in here,
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Speaker 1: and we left and joked about it, and we've been
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Speaker 1: friends ever since. She is the director of shopping Partnerships
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Speaker 1: with Refinary twenty nine. She works with Essence, Beauty, Kon
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Speaker 1: and Afropunk as well. And you know, she was the
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Speaker 1: director of She was the head of e commerce over
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Speaker 1: at Vogue for some time was at Install magazine, and
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Speaker 1: if you know of her work in the world, she's
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Speaker 1: a young black girl that is out here killing it.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to really break down some of the looks,
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