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This Is Not A Game: Lil Durk Court Updates and DeMar DeRozan Fight · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 4: Where we check in.
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  Speaker 2: This is an audio only exclusive episode. So how am
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  Speaker 2: I feeling today? I am feeling like, oh, you think
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  Speaker 2: it's a good like this is not a game, baby,
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  Speaker 2: This is not a game. I live my life every
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  Speaker 2: single day when it comes to career, when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to family, when it comes to everything. You know, very seriously,
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  Speaker 2: I am proudly an overachiever. If I say I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do something, it's gonna get done, and it's gonna get done, done, done, done, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: But I think in this new.
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  Speaker 2: Space of me, know, having so many things that I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing at once, you know, the elevation and the growth
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  Speaker 2: and having to employ, you know, team and move people
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  Speaker 2: around and position people and just understand.
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  Speaker 4: All of that. It is a very different level of that.
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  Speaker 4: For me.
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  Speaker 2: I've been figuring that out on my own. It's literally
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  Speaker 2: like I am first generation at this level of career
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  Speaker 2: success and business because I am, and I'm figuring that
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  Speaker 2: out in real time.
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  Speaker 4: And I think my platforms are very.
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  Speaker 2: Transparent and they've always been, especially my YouTube channel. So
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  Speaker 2: for you guys on the audio side, check out my
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  Speaker 2: YouTube channel. It's Lauren the Roads at TV. I've logged
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  Speaker 2: there and I've been sharing my journey since day one
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  Speaker 2: of me deciding to move to la to figure out
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  Speaker 2: this whole entertainment industry thing, and I've been very transparent
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  Speaker 2: in doing so.
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  Speaker 4: The bio of the YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 2: Is from my friend's couch to National TV, because that
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  Speaker 2: is the journey that I took you guys on and
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  Speaker 2: that I continue to take you on, even though I'm
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  Speaker 2: here in New York and not in la and I'm
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  Speaker 2: on radio now in the podcast and not on television.
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  Speaker 2: So staff meeting Lauren is talking to Lauren and saying,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta remember that this is not a game. The
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  Speaker 2: people that you bring into this, the schedules that you keep,
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  Speaker 2: the pre planning, it's not a game. It cannot be
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  Speaker 2: a game. You are delivering and you have to deliver
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  Speaker 2: every single mark. You can't miss your mark, baby girl.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get on into the latest. Now, I am
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  Speaker 2: taking y'all of court because one thing y'all know, I
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  Speaker 2: love to do, y'all girl, love to take y'all a court.
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  Speaker 4: To take y'all a court. And first up on the docket,
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  Speaker 4: we have Little Dirk.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Little Dirk is asking for his case in California
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  Speaker 2: to be dismissed. Now that is the murder for a
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  Speaker 2: higher indictment that has to do with the cousin of
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  Speaker 2: another rapper, Kwando Rondo. Now for background real quick for
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  Speaker 2: those of you guys who do not know up until
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  Speaker 2: this point, Quando Rondo, who is also a rapper, and
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  Speaker 2: Little Dirk.
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  Speaker 4: They don't get along whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: One of Little Dirk's artists, King von was killed after
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  Speaker 2: a outing at a nightclub, which was then pinned on
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  Speaker 2: Quando Rondo because there was a back and forth between
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  Speaker 2: them verbally leading up to it physically. That night, one
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  Speaker 2: of Quando Rondo's crew members ended up shooting King Vonn
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  Speaker 2: was hit did not survive. Now we fast forward to
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  Speaker 2: where we are right now, Little Dirk is indicted, indicted
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  Speaker 2: because there was a shooting in California not too long
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  Speaker 2: after King Von was shot and killed, where a car
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  Speaker 2: that Quando Rondo's cousin was traveling in was shot up.
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  Speaker 4: The intention, from what we're learning from this indictment.
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  Speaker 2: Was that the people that are currently locked up who
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  Speaker 2: had shot at this car had believed that Quondo Rondo
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  Speaker 2: was in the car and was shooting was solely in
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  Speaker 2: the car, was shooting just at him moving forward. Come
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  Speaker 2: to find out, Quandor Rondo's cousin was actually hit in
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  Speaker 2: the shooting and did not survive the shooting. Dirk is
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  Speaker 2: indicted along with five other men. The five other men
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  Speaker 2: were indicted first, and then Dirk was brought into it
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  Speaker 2: in a superseding indictment, which means there was an indictment,
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  Speaker 2: there was these charges, there was these you know, people
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  Speaker 2: that were throwing charges at them and arrested, and then
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  Speaker 2: there was more evidence and more conversation, and little Dirk
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  Speaker 2: was brought into it.
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  Speaker 4: So that brings us to where we are today. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The reason why Little Dirk is asking for this indictment
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  Speaker 2: to completely be dismissed is because he's saying that in
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  Speaker 2: the original indictment, which happened in October of twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: this indictment was predicated or based on the fact that
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  Speaker 2: there were these text messages you know, that ordered this
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  Speaker 2: like hit, this alleged hit on Quando Rondo, which resulted
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  Speaker 2: in his cousin being killed in the shooting of the car.
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  Speaker 2: That I just explained to you guys. Now, that was
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  Speaker 2: October twenty twenty four. In November of twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: there was a superseding indictment which added additional evidence by
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  Speaker 2: the prosecutor's office, and that evidence basically said, well, in
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  Speaker 2: addition to these five men that we have and all
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  Speaker 2: that information that we've already told a grand jury, we
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  Speaker 2: believe that rap artists Little Dirt is at the helm
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  Speaker 2: of this.
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  Speaker 4: And here's why.
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  Speaker 2: And they mentioned, in addition to the text messages they
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  Speaker 2: had already talked about, Little Dirt originally was mentioned as
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  Speaker 2: co conspirator number one in the original indictment that went
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  Speaker 2: down in October of twenty twenty four. Now, when he
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  Speaker 2: was mentioned as co co conspirator number one, there were
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  Speaker 2: text messages that the prosecutor's office included. These text messages,
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  Speaker 2: as I mentioned before, said basically, don't use my name
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  Speaker 2: when y'all booking none of this, none of these flights,
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  Speaker 2: so none of this travel.
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  Speaker 4: Don't use my name at all.
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  Speaker 2: When this new indictment comes in November of twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: the Prosecutor's office are then able to say, well, Cochin's
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  Speaker 2: for the number one is little Dirk. And not only
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  Speaker 2: did these text messages happened, but there was a song
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  Speaker 2: that was released and this song basically admits to this
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  Speaker 2: killing or the setting up of this killing allegedly.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the song.
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  Speaker 2: That the Prosecutor's office refers to is actually a song
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  Speaker 2: by Baby Face Ray, who is a Detrie artist, and
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  Speaker 2: the song is called Wonderful Wayne and Jackie Boy. Now
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  Speaker 2: Dirk is a feature on the song, so it's not
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  Speaker 2: even Dirk's song. Dirk just hops song, gives his verse
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  Speaker 2: and gets out. He's later in the song, baby Face
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  Speaker 2: Ray opens a song, but they're talking about lyrics in
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  Speaker 2: this song where Dirk mentions like no, no, he talks
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  Speaker 2: about like getting revenge and that whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: There's a news.
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  Speaker 2: Audio from Kwondo Rondo from the day that his cousin
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  Speaker 2: was killed, and you see him and you hear him
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  Speaker 2: on the scene and he's screaming, let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: Now that no, no, no, that you guys just heard it.
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  Speaker 2: That audio from that news outlet.
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  Speaker 4: Was actually dubbed.
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  Speaker 2: It was taken and it was put under this track
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  Speaker 2: that little Dirk recorded the wonderful Wayne and Jackie Waite
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  Speaker 2: verse that he did. It was put under and it
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  Speaker 2: was made to sound like Dirk sampled that news recorded.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's the issue with this that Dirk's team is
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  Speaker 2: pointing out in this request for dismissal. Dark's team is saying, wait,
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  Speaker 2: so y'all are telling us that when you went to
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  Speaker 2: go talk to this grand jury and show them evidence
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  Speaker 2: of why Dirk should be indicted, y'all predicated it on
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  Speaker 2: this song. That song was released in January twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: even without the news audio right if they used it
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  Speaker 2: and had the date right the prosecutor's office for they
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  Speaker 2: had basically been saying, well, he was able to tell
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  Speaker 2: the future and knew that this was gonna go down,
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  Speaker 2: and knew that that audio clip was gonna be available
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  Speaker 2: to them reference it in the song seven months prior.
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  Speaker 4: Now, even with the audio right from that news article.
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  Speaker 4: What little Dirk's team is arguing.
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  Speaker 2: Is is, even if this was true, the dates are off,
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  Speaker 2: and y'all could have found that from a simple investigation.
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  Speaker 2: So what Dirk's team did was they went and they
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  Speaker 2: talked to all their producers, all the audio engineers who
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  Speaker 2: have time stance of when things were submitted, when things
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  Speaker 2: were published, when things were put in certain systems, to
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  Speaker 2: prove the dates of what they're alleged, right, seven months
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  Speaker 2: prior to this killing, seven months prior to that news
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  Speaker 2: clipping of kwander Rono screaming no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 2: Not only are they doing that, but they're also saying, well, right,
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  Speaker 2: we have the time stamps, but we also have additional
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  Speaker 2: timestamps that show from the moment that Dirk's original verse
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  Speaker 2: was turned in to the point when the song actually debuted,
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  Speaker 2: there was nothing change, no lyrics, no audio, no anything.
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  Speaker 2: And they're saying that they have proof of this. They
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  Speaker 2: have affidavits from affidavits which are like statements, right, sworn
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  Speaker 2: testimony and statements from produce audio engineers showing that there's
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  Speaker 2: no course, nothing was changed.
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  Speaker 4: And they're saying, well, even though y'all have.
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  Speaker 2: These these text messages, right, which I asked when I
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  Speaker 2: spoke to my sore as close to the situation, I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: if they have the text messages, even if even if
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  Speaker 2: the song stuff is tossed out and we can't lean
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  Speaker 2: anything on this song anymore, they do have these text
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  Speaker 2: messages allegedly.
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  Speaker 4: How do you explain that?
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  Speaker 2: And what I'm what I was told was that, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have to explain it. You're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: speak to it. But that's not something that can be
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  Speaker 2: used to indict somebody. That is something that is evidence
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  Speaker 2: that you take the court that a person then has
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  Speaker 2: a fair shot at arguing against when they brought this song.
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  Speaker 2: This is the issue right here, and this is what
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  Speaker 2: they're leaning the dismissal request on when they use the
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  Speaker 2: song lyrics and failed to disclose the fact to a
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  Speaker 2: grand jury that the song was actually released seven months
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  Speaker 2: prior to the death of this person, which would have
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  Speaker 2: been seven months prior to the audio of this news
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  Speaker 2: report that was allegedly using this song, which would have
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  Speaker 2: been pinning Dirk to basically creating a song about something
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  Speaker 2: he did, which, if y'all are tracking what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't match up the timeline doesn't match up right,
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  Speaker 2: So if this were to happen, if this song words
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  Speaker 2: have been presented as fact to the grand jury, which
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  Speaker 2: it would have had to have been. If this is
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  Speaker 2: what the grand jury used to indict Dirk.
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  Speaker 4: This is false.
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  Speaker 2: This is not true, which is against the law a
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  Speaker 2: grand jury and a prosecutor going before a grand jury
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  Speaker 2: and presenting evidence as facts, not just evidence, but these
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  Speaker 2: are facts. You present facts. It's against Dirk's rights. And
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  Speaker 2: they want this dismissed now. I'm not even gonna hold y'all,
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  Speaker 2: Dirk Legal team eight with this one. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: understand how prosecutor's office would have overlooked something that simple.
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  Speaker 2: I was able to google n seed dates that everything
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  Speaker 2: is time steeing, from YouTube to everything. And honestly, even
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  Speaker 2: if I was a prosecutor, I'm not even gonna hold y'all,
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  Speaker 2: I would have did my due diligence, Like you don't
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  Speaker 2: bring a high profile case like this for something as
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  Speaker 2: serious as a murder for hire and you and you
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  Speaker 2: just you miss step like that. It makes no sense.
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  Speaker 2: And Dirk's team is taking a step further. Look, they're like, look,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not gonna dismiss this. All right, cool, but
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  Speaker 2: let's let's let's let's let's put everything on the table now.
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  Speaker 2: We want to see the transcripts from what was said
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  Speaker 2: in front of that grand jury, because what's quad happen
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  Speaker 2: is is if this is not dismissed, right, and they
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  Speaker 2: get the transcripts, and it is true that they leaned
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  Speaker 2: heavily on this song and it's released in the lyrics
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  Speaker 2: to indict Dirt, And now the timeline is all large
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  Speaker 2: portion of this. You know what I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, because Dirk literally was only indict Dirk
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  Speaker 2: was indicted a month after the original indictment. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: even mention his name in the original indictment. They needed
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  Speaker 2: something more to back up the mentioning of his name,
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  Speaker 2: and they use the song to do this. There are
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  Speaker 2: two fundamental things that they that they're leaning the indictment
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  Speaker 2: on the original indictment. The only one thing that they
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  Speaker 2: leaned on was the text messages the second indictment, the
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  Speaker 2: superseding indictment. So the addition to the original indictment, Now
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  Speaker 2: that makes two things, which are the text messages in
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  Speaker 2: this song, y'all, Dirk's legal team is on or something here.
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  Speaker 2: We're just gonna have to see how this plays out.
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  Speaker 2: I do know, and I have confirmed that they are
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  Speaker 2: also a Dirk's legal team is also asking.
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  Speaker 4: For bond again.
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  Speaker 2: Dirk's bond was denied before, and you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: a whole thing with like there was a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: flights booked in his name and you know, blah blah
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah, so they deemed him like a flight
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  Speaker 2: rist and all of those things. But this go round,
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  Speaker 2: they've offered up a pretty hefty bond package, which includes
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  Speaker 2: note hundred thousand dollars in real estate equity, a million
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  Speaker 2: dollars in cash from Alamo Records, one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars from business associates. And they also say that
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  Speaker 2: he'll have twenty four to seven private security, he'll be
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  Speaker 2: electronically monitored, and he'll have a strict reporting requirement back
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  Speaker 2: to the judge and to his attorneys and the prosecutors.
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  Speaker 2: And they're offering all this stuff to secure his bill.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe second time is a charm for Dirk.
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  Speaker 4: We will have to see.
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  Speaker 2: Now, next up on the docket, this didn't even make
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  Speaker 2: it the course. I don't even know if this is
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  Speaker 2: fair to say, next up on a docket, y'all not
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  Speaker 2: refrained from cussing, So I'm not gonna use the words
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  Speaker 2: I want to use.
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  Speaker 4: But this is crazy. Honestly, this is this is scary.
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  Speaker 4: This is very scary.
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  Speaker 2: DeMar DeRozan got into a physical altercation with a man
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  Speaker 2: in a sushi bar in Calabasses over the Eastern holiday weekend.
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  Speaker 2: You see a video of the mar de Rozan standing
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  Speaker 2: over top of a man who was on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: There is a phone.
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  Speaker 2: With a light up and then in the video the
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  Speaker 2: man as the DeMar DeRozan backs up off of him,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a woman yelling to DeMar de Rozan, who
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  Speaker 2: was obviously there with him, saying, Yo, it's not worth it.
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  Speaker 2: He's not worth it. He's not worth it. The man
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  Speaker 2: is like, give me my phone, give me my phone.
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  Speaker 2: I need my phone. So, you know, onlookers in the
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  Speaker 2: restaurant told TMZ that Damarrow and this man got into
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  Speaker 2: it because there was a light that was shining into
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  Speaker 2: his face, which Damar did not like, and things kind
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  Speaker 2: of just escalated from there. Police have confirmed that they
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  Speaker 2: are investigating this. Police say that they're reported to that
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  Speaker 2: sushi bar on April eighteenth, a little bit after ten
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  Speaker 2: thirty pm. Now that was all that was out there
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  Speaker 2: when reports first dropped, right. So of course, when that happens,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't know DeMar DeRozan and his temperament and
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  Speaker 2: you know all those things, you originally are like, ooh,
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  Speaker 2: he done went off on somebody. I've interviewed DeMar de Rozan.
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  Speaker 2: I met him when he came to the Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 2: and we did an interview with him. And ironically enough,
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  Speaker 2: his book was about just mental health, the piece that
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  Speaker 2: he's found recently, and you know how he deals with
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different things like the anxiety and the
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  Speaker 2: pressures and you know, all these things, and his temperament
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  Speaker 2: was very composed when we spoke with him. So when
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  Speaker 2: I saw the story, I was like, there has to
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  Speaker 2: be more to this, and baby there was. So following
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  Speaker 2: these reports, there is then a video that begins to
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  Speaker 2: circulate on line of a man who is you know,
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  Speaker 2: posting a video. His caption says that he had just
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  Speaker 2: gotten into an incident with Damar DeRozan. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: read to you guys exact caption because I want to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that I get this completely right, so y'all
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  Speaker 2: can see how insane this was. So the caption actually reads,
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  Speaker 2: I got attacked and body slammed by DeMar DeRozan. Don't
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  Speaker 2: meet your heroes, kids, I don't think. Then he tagged
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  Speaker 2: Drake will like this behavior. I think Drake won the battle.
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  Speaker 2: Then he hashtags for you page this parton and hashtags
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  Speaker 2: basketball this person hashtags Calabasis, the Sacramento Keynes, Damar DeRozan.
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  Speaker 2: He then tags TMZ, ABC seven, l A in the
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  Speaker 2: Hoop Central, which are all media outlets now. In this video,
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  Speaker 2: the man is walking through a restaurant. He says in
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  Speaker 2: the video, well, let's take a listen. I want you
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: guys to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to kick me out.
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  Speaker 4: Let me give my call now.
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  Speaker 2: This man then ends up in the back of an ambulance,
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  Speaker 2: uh and.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently it's going to go get checked out.
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  Speaker 2: He says that, you know, he just wants to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that everything is okay, because he said that there
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: was like a swelling of his head and just different things.
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  Speaker 2: And then the video cuts off as he enters the
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  Speaker 2: hospital because you hear the parabedics tell him he can
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  Speaker 2: no longer record.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I reached out to a source familiar with what went
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: down that night. What I was told was that the
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  Speaker 2: man allegedly had been disruptive outside of this very restaurant
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: prior to Damar's arrival, and as Damar was arriving, DeMar
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: de Rozan then arrived, he was seated. It was very very,
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  Speaker 2: very very very shortly after he was seated, this man
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  Speaker 2: in Damar's interaction happened. Now, I asked my source, because
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  Speaker 2: it makes no sense that if a man is disruptive
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  Speaker 2: outside of a restaurant, why would a restaurant then allow
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  Speaker 2: him in. I'm told that the man that asks to
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  Speaker 2: use the bathroom and that's how you made his way
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  Speaker 2: into the restaurant. In the video, you hear him say tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: they're throwing me out, and then he flashes the lights
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: of DeMar de Rozan and then the altercation happens.
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  Speaker 4: What I'm taking from this just my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: This man came in there looking for someone and at
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the end of the video with the mar de Roz
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  Speaker 2: and he is also this man promoting a book on
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  Speaker 2: Amazon that, from the looks of it, from the looks
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: of his social media accounts, is his book. Now police
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: are still investigating what exactly happened here, what exactly led
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  Speaker 2: up to it, But that is all that I am told.
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  Speaker 2: And this is scary as hell as a person that
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: is beginning to you know, navigate and understanding that this
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: is not a game and things are elevating it and
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  Speaker 2: there moving. It is so scary to me that people
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  Speaker 2: will intentionally do things.
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  Speaker 4: Just to have a little bit of a moment.
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  Speaker 2: But I will be back here with more facts on
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: thiss as things develop, because that's what.
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  Speaker 4: We do here. That is the latest.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Now, what we're learning from this whole episode is that
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if you are an artist deciding what
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: song you're featured on, what the lyrics will be, you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: a basketball player just out having some sushi with your homegirl,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: with a family member or whatever, or if you are
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: me and you're you know, figuring things out and you're
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: building career and you're building team, and you're putting people
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: in position, and you're trying to figure out what's working here,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: what's working there, what should I add, what should I subtract?
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: It gets a certain point things are not a game anymore,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a really great.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Place to be.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: But baby you gotta protect that like no other, like
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: no other. And that brings me to our final thoughts.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Outside We Outside, We outside Okada. I actually went and
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: saw Ryan Cougler Sinners today for the second time. I
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  Speaker 2: saw the movie when he came to the breakfast club.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: We do get the preview to movies and things of
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: that nature before we talked to.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: The people, but I went and saw it again.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: There was reporting over this weekend that Ryan Cougler Sinners
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: earned nineteen point two million dollars in the film's domestic
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: opening day, which is right now second biggest opening for
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: an original horror film this decade.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Now, that's how the weekend.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Started off for the film, and there was numbers and
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: great numbers and news and news after that, and I
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: was so happy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, yo.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: First of all, in meeting Ryan Coogler and getting to
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: have a conversation with him, you just realized, like I
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: knew he was brilliant, but to see and hear it
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: and be in conversation with him up close, y'all, I
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, Everything I create has to
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: have substance, that has to have purpose. There has to
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: be a reason. I want nuances, I want double on tendrous.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I just want so much for myself after being in
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: conversation with him. So I was so happy to see
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the response to the film. But I did tweet out
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: tonight after seeing the movie and I said, I went
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: and saw Sinners this weekend for the second time. I
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: have a lot of thoughts about the segregated reactions to
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the film. And I don't just mean black versus white
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: when I'm talking about segregation. I mean Bible thumpers versus
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: non Bible thumpers, black versus white, men versus women, quotation marks,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: mainstream media versus non mainstream media, and some more. So
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I tweeted that out and people had different emotions. The
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: emotions were mixed. I want to bring that back here,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: you know, in the next episode in full, but I
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: wanted to mention in it here because lowriders, I want
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: you to go out there, Okay, I want youry to
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: go out there.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I want you try to see the movie.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I want you guys to tweet me at Laura Laoz
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: and let me know how you feel about it, and
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: let me know about how you feel about some of
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the coverage, particularly what I'm talking about. What I'm saying
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: is that a lot of the mainstream media right now,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: instead of focusing on how well the film did, you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: how it surpassed and how it broke history and how
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: it is, they're making headlines to talk about what it
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: didn't do. They're making headlines to talk about, you know, like,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: oh my god, we're so surprised that it did this well,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: and it's like, what that's shady as hell? Ben Stiller
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: tweeted out because Variety tweeted, Sinners has a mass sixty
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: one million dollars in its global debut. It's a great
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: result for an original, R rated horror film. Yet the
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Warner Brothers release has a ninety million dollar price tag
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: before global marketing expenses, so profitability remains a ways away.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: It's the opening weekend, y'all. It has a mass over, y'all,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: sixty million, sixty one million dollars, and it has a
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: ninety million dollar price tag before the global marketing expenses.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: It's done that in two forty eight hours a weekend.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not even on the seventy two hour point yet
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: when I'm talking to y'all right now, and it's done that,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and that's the conversation. So Ben Stiller tweeted out and said,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: in what universe does a sixty million dollar opening for
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: an original studio movie?
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Warn't this headline? Clock it?
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Ben, Please please clock it, because what's what's going on?
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: But I'm trying to tell y'all, it's really not a
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: game out here like it's so you think it's a game.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: You think it's a game when you're you're creator of
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: any sort, but especially if you're a black one out here.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: We don't have room.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: To think it's again, y'all, because these are the type
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: of things that happen. So we gotta be good. We
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: gotta be damn good, period. So i'mnna leave it at that.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I'll be back with some more. I really want to
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: get into that Centers conversation a few other things, so
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: we will be back at the end.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Of the day.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: You know, there is always a lot to talk about,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: but every single time you guys are right here with
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: me to talk about it, I appreciate y'all so much.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I'm Laura lo Rosa.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: This is the Latest with Laura Rosa, your daily dig
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: on everything pop culture in all the conversations that shake
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: the room. I'll see you guys in my next episode