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Don't Take It Personal (Monica’s Silent Battle & Brandy Loyalty Talk) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 1: It has been a long week, coming off of that
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  Speaker 1: for black women, like this is really this is one
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  Speaker 1: of the ones. This is one of the episodes or episodes.
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying episodes because I'm so used to television,
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  Speaker 1: podcasts and radio. This is one of those issues. This
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  Speaker 1: read magazines back to back all the time. I feel
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get on into the latest.
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  Speaker 1: So speaking about taking care of yourself, Monica Monica our girl.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Monica's everybody's like favorite like homegirl or
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  Speaker 1: aunt or I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, I don't know if she likes to be called auntie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just not say she's everybody's favorite auntie or
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  Speaker 1: aunt because I don't know she likes that. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that, you know, not everybody wants to just randomly
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  Speaker 1: be called auntie. Some people lean into the auntie face,
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  Speaker 1: some people don't. But Monica saw going. You know, boy
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  Speaker 1: is mine. Monica sat down with Michelle Obama and her
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  Speaker 1: brother Eric Robinson for the In My Opinion podcast, and
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  Speaker 1: they had such a great conversation. They talked about a
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  Speaker 1: ton of things. Uh, you know, Monica. For us who
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  Speaker 1: really love and know her music, we know she has
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  Speaker 1: always been very vulnerable and very open about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that she has not always had the best you know,
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  Speaker 1: love situations. She's been through some things where she had
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  Speaker 1: to kick down the door and smack a chick literally,
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  Speaker 1: and she talked a bit about, you know what her
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  Speaker 1: past has been when it comes to relationships and how
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  Speaker 1: her husband now his name is aunt Anthony, who also
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  Speaker 1: was in the business as well, works with music artists
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  Speaker 1: like Chris Brown and a ton of others and you know, producers, shows,
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  Speaker 1: and and he is just.
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  Speaker 2: He's a go to guy.
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  Speaker 1: She talks about how you know this go around and
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  Speaker 1: you know, being married to him, it just feels different
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  Speaker 1: because they were such good friends first, and she's not
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  Speaker 1: doing it alone. Let's say a listen to Monica talking
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  Speaker 1: about her love.
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  Speaker 3: Anthony, and I have done a lot for it to
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  Speaker 3: remain the way it was as a kid. Yeah, for him,
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  Speaker 3: it's very different because he grew up as an orphan.
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  Speaker 3: But he also and Anthony is your husband. Yes, he's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: He was my friend for fourteen years first, and I
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  Speaker 3: always say that is the one thing I missed. I
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  Speaker 3: don't feel like I missed a lot, but in that
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  Speaker 3: friendship I missed. Yeah, all the other things we could beat.
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  Speaker 1: Now one of the things that I thought was interesting, Right,
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, Okay, She says the scene of her
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  Speaker 1: and you know her children and what mom her is like,
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  Speaker 1: and how she got the name Gunica because Michelle Obama,
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  Speaker 1: I guess people call her MO as well, so they
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  Speaker 1: were kind of joking about, you know, being on set
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  Speaker 1: and people saying MO.
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  Speaker 2: And Monica's cousin.
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  Speaker 1: Who has been by her side since the very beginning,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, Monica in her early what like thirteen
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  Speaker 1: fourteen teen years starting out in music. She says that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of her cousins that was there that
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  Speaker 1: kind of was confusing.
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  Speaker 2: The most had been with her for some time.
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  Speaker 1: But she gets into, you know, just how having the
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  Speaker 1: support of her husband now really paid off during not
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  Speaker 1: paid off, but was really something she leaned into during
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  Speaker 1: the time of The Boy's Mind tour. So during The
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  Speaker 1: Boy's Mind toor we did not know this, but Monica
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  Speaker 1: had a very serious health issue going on with her
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  Speaker 1: throat to the point where it could have completely messed
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  Speaker 1: up her singing.
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  Speaker 2: And just changed everything. Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Got to see you on tour in DC at Capitol
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  Speaker 4: One Arena. The concert was amazing, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I you all are singers, you know, you're not real singers, yes,
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  Speaker 4: your real voice, no buffering, no, you know, and so
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  Speaker 4: I knew that it was going to be amazing, but
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  Speaker 4: it was really it was really empowering.
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  Speaker 3: It means so challenging to start because I found out
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  Speaker 3: that I had vocal paralysis in the right vocal.
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  Speaker 4: Cord, So what does that mean.
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  Speaker 2: That means it.
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  Speaker 3: Should be moving and it's not. And now I have
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  Speaker 3: all these major obligations and this is when you want
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  Speaker 3: to be in the best shape of your life. And
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  Speaker 3: we've been trying to figure out what was happening for
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  Speaker 3: quite some time. Things started to sound very different the
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  Speaker 3: way I hear them, the way they would come out.
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  Speaker 3: And it was after I had surgery, initially for my sinuses.
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  Speaker 2: And this was before the tour.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we didn't find out why this was happening until
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  Speaker 3: two weeks before the tour.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wow, so you were already experiencing what.
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  Speaker 3: We had been experiencing it for a while. But doctor
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  Speaker 3: Rene Gupta is the one that really figured out what
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  Speaker 3: was happening. Because I've always been able to do whatever
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to do vocals, and I started realizing that
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  Speaker 3: these things aren't happening. So I had to learn it
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  Speaker 3: all over and we did it in a It was
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  Speaker 3: one day where it was just tears for me. It
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  Speaker 3: was just tears. I just had to get in Anthony's
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  Speaker 3: lap and cry.
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  Speaker 4: It must have been frightening too, very much so.
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  Speaker 3: And not even the idea of the judgment of it all,
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  Speaker 3: but because I hold myself to a standard that I
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  Speaker 3: did not.
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  Speaker 1: Really it's so crazy about that, is though, I want
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  Speaker 1: to go see the tour and she's talking about like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how she realized her voice was doing things
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  Speaker 1: differently than what she was used to being able to
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  Speaker 1: do with her voice. Monica sound amazing, like she sound amazing.
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  Speaker 1: There nothing about her performance gave me that she was
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  Speaker 1: dealing with anything like you know, readjusting to new controller
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  Speaker 1: her voice, or anything being wrong when it came to
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  Speaker 1: her at all, like not at all. I also saw
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  Speaker 1: her on the f Forward Femland at Sea cruise. She
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  Speaker 1: was one of the first performing acts on that cruise
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  Speaker 1: as well too. The mic was on like she sounded amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's so crazy to think about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like what so like her quality of like perfect and
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent it's so different than like how we
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  Speaker 1: look at her and how we analyze how she sounds
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  Speaker 1: and how perfect she sounds. And you know, and she says,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you guys heard her. People don't really check
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  Speaker 1: on entertainers because you want to be entertained. But also
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like the front that they put
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  Speaker 1: up is like one of the best because you would
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  Speaker 1: have never known.
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  Speaker 2: Ever.
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  Speaker 1: I think I have some audio back from when I
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  Speaker 1: went to the concert.
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  Speaker 2: That's take a listen.
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  Speaker 1: Never would have known, okay, never would have made it,
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  Speaker 1: never would have known at all. Now, another one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that she talked about a bit was just
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  Speaker 1: her protection over Brandy, which is also very very evident
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  Speaker 1: when you go and see them perform and they maybe
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  Speaker 1: don't know another round of the Boy's mind, but that
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  Speaker 1: is nothing that is confirmed yet. But promoters said that
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  Speaker 1: there are you know, people that want it in uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, venues and stuff like that. But she talked
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  Speaker 1: about the conversation that her and Brandy had that got
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  Speaker 1: them to a place where they could actually do the
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  Speaker 1: boy's mind toward Let's take a listen to that.
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  Speaker 3: And then Brandy and I had a conversation that really
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  Speaker 3: was the catalyst for the change that was needed for
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  Speaker 3: us to do this. So many people wanted us to
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  Speaker 3: do it, but it was too much unresolved, and we
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  Speaker 3: had not spoken at all, but we do. We had
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  Speaker 3: not seen each other in almost seven or eight years.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the way you do a co headlining tour.
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  Speaker 3: I kept saying, we just need to speak because the
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  Speaker 3: women we've become, I believe they can come together in
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  Speaker 3: a completely different capacity.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what you saw. Do you can you share
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  Speaker 4: some of that? I know Brandy's not here, Brandy, I
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  Speaker 4: love you, us to you. I know she couldn't make
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  Speaker 4: being here and shouts go out. So I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to ask you anything that feels like it's a private conversation.
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  Speaker 4: But if there are aspects to what the content of
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  Speaker 4: that was for you, you know what.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very protective of her, and it happened without.
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  Speaker 4: Me, and I could tell behind it, could I could tell,
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  Speaker 4: you know? I mean, yes, I could. I could tell
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  Speaker 4: in our our Greek and I mean I get it.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: A lot was required of her. Yeah, Yeah, I did
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  Speaker 3: what I wanted. Yeah, whether it was good or bad,
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  Speaker 3: I did what I wanted. She did the right thing
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  Speaker 3: all the time, and that's heavy. That's a heavy load.
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  Speaker 3: And she loves for things to be perfect. She challenges
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  Speaker 3: herself all that dancing you saw, Yes, friend, it was her, it.
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  Speaker 4: Was her, Because y'all, if you didn't go to the
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  Speaker 4: concert because are you all extending because you talked about
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  Speaker 4: we've not decided. Okay, I know that there's a request
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  Speaker 4: you all have dates.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do what she wants.
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  Speaker 1: And then she goes into discussing like why she feels
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  Speaker 1: like she like feels the need to protect Brandy. And
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  Speaker 1: y'all know we talked about Brandy on our last episode,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when it came to the Shine and you know,
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  Speaker 1: Cameron and Mace conversation and what I realized because you know,
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  Speaker 1: Brandy made a statement. She spoke out, she you know,
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  Speaker 1: denied ever dating Shine. She also mentioned that you know,
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  Speaker 1: she rarely speaks on things, but she just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make that clear. And she also, you know, said that
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  Speaker 1: she didn't understand why this was still being discussed twenty
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  Speaker 1: years later. She says that they were just friends, right,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the things that Brandy talks about and
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  Speaker 1: when she spoke out in response to everything that was
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  Speaker 1: happening with the Cameron and Mace and ray J.
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  Speaker 2: She also distanced herself from ray Je too.
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  Speaker 1: She said she loved her brother, but listen, I ain't
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  Speaker 1: got nothing to do with all that craziness.
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  Speaker 2: But she she talked about how people have always.
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  Speaker 1: Been able to create their own narratives for her, and
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  Speaker 1: when you think back about it, Brandy was always like
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  Speaker 1: because she was she was working at such a high
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  Speaker 1: level with so many greats from a very young age,
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  Speaker 1: she always had to be very polished.
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  Speaker 2: Now Monica doing just as big things.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, but Monica talked about in this interview
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  Speaker 1: with Michelle Obama that you know, their backgrounds were so different,
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  Speaker 1: do you know, coming into their careers and just everything
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  Speaker 1: was so different. Monica didn't struggle with that having to
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  Speaker 1: be perfect. But Brandy then and I feel like even
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  Speaker 1: now lives in this very curated, protected space of celebrity,
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  Speaker 1: which is a different era of celebrity too. Like Brandy
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  Speaker 1: comes from a very different area of celebrity. She rubbed
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  Speaker 1: elbows and worked alongside some of the most famous people
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  Speaker 1: in the world, Whitney Houston, Like, we don't have celebrities
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  Speaker 1: like what Brandy is used to being around and learning
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  Speaker 1: from and you know, all of those things, right and
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  Speaker 1: even herself, like Brandy is not like, we have few
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  Speaker 1: real celebrities left. Like and when I say real celebrity,
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean that there aren't famous people I mean
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  Speaker 1: like hysteria, Like if Brandy walked down the street, people.
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  Speaker 2: Would freak out.
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  Speaker 1: And Monica, you know, she broke down the fact that
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  Speaker 1: like her and Brandy both had this very little sister,
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  Speaker 1: big sister close relationship with it Houston and for Whitney
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  Speaker 1: Houston to be so unreal to so many people, she
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  Speaker 1: was so real to them. And I think that that
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  Speaker 1: goes into you know, Monica in her decision to really
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  Speaker 1: protect and wrap her arm around Brandy in various situations.
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  Speaker 2: Even though Brandy didn't ask for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wait till Gouona could see all this mess, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure she's seen it by now, with ray J
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  Speaker 1: and Kim and Shine and like. And to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: I think because I mean I talked to I do
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  Speaker 1: not even think I know I spoke to someone in
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  Speaker 1: Shine's camp last night as I was preparing for my
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  Speaker 1: segment on The Breakfast Club that I did yesterday. And
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  Speaker 1: if you go back and listen to yesterday's episode of
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  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club when I talked about this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Shine didn't His intent.
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  Speaker 1: Was not to be disrespectful, But I think as a woman,
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  Speaker 1: we see those type of conversations way differently than men
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  Speaker 1: do way differently. So I know Guona could probably you know,
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  Speaker 1: Monica over there, like y'all let me make a few
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  Speaker 1: phone calls, could stop playing with my girl b. But
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Brandy even had to come out and
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  Speaker 1: say anything shows how annoying these type of conversations are
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  Speaker 1: for women. Brandy don't comment on nothing. I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: the last time I've seen a statement about something from Brandy.
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  Speaker 1: You live, and you learn, and you learn to keep
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  Speaker 1: some conversations in the group chat. Okay, some of them
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  Speaker 1: just belong in the group chat. And that's what I
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  Speaker 1: told the people you know that I spoke to from
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  Speaker 1: Shine's camp. Some conversations just belong amongst friends and not
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  Speaker 1: on platforms. All right, y'all, So this has been another
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