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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Speaks to the planning. I go by the name of
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
Jee I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about
everything and everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
Lauren came in hot.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Okay, all you gotta clap it up, Clap it up,
clap it up.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
With the energy going up.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
What's up, y'all, It's Laura le Rosa. This is the
Latest with Lauren l Rosa. Now, this is your daily dig,
your daily dish on everything in all conversations, pop culture
and just you know, those conversations that shake the room. Now,
I want to first of all, thank you guys for
coming right on back here with me. Y'all know I'm
the homegrowd. I know it's a little bit about everything
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and everybody, and today in the room, I got the
og who knows a little bit about everything and everybody.
My mom really is like complete opposite of me, though
she not her business I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
But my mom is here. Hey mom, Yes, my mom
Lois is here.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
My family was in town because we did like a
media kind of like meet and greet type of situation
for the podcast in the episode previous to this one.
If you have not listened to that, please go and
listen to it. It's a live conversation with me and
Charlemagne just about you know, like where everything started from
for me, where you know I'm at now and where
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I'm going and where I'm headed. So my family was
in town for that. So my mom is still here
and she came to film the podcast with me.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Today.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We are going to go and see Alicia Keys's play
on Broadway later today as well, So I'll let you
guys know how that goes. They just celebrated one year
on Broadway, so I know that that's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Alicia Keys, I don't know if she like you know,
she's there all the time, but I know Tank is involved.
So the scene is gonna be sanging, Okay, you're ready?
Mind you excited?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yes, she's oh yeah, she's excited.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So the way that we do it here, Mom, when
we start off the podcast is we do a check in,
So this is a grinding you know, behind the scenes
of the grind checking where we just asked, how are
you feeling.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Good?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Good?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I'm feeling great. That was a good opening. Last night
really was really therapeutic for me.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Oh to hear me talk about everything.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yes, how do you feel when you like, when you're
sitting in the audience and like you're hearing me talk
about things that like, you know, I mean, you're my
mom and.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Brought also too. You lived them a real life with me.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
That's right, That's what I was about to say. It
just is the real life. And I appreciate you. Keep
keeping it real, girl, Yeah, keep it real. That's the
way to do it. I congratulate you on that. And
now let's get real about everything about everything?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
She said, were ready to get on into some topics. Well, so,
the way that we normally do a mom, you know,
because I know this is your first time here, is
after we do the check in, then we go into
the topics, but before we do the topics.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I always got to check in on Patrick.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I'm feeling energized after that event.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Last night, energized. Did you sleep in?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I didn't get to sleep, but it's fine because we
was here grinding. We came back to the studio to
dump the footage, get the audio up for the next morning.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
We got y'all did that last night.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
After the me and Tyler pulled up to the studio
right here, got the audio up, mare was ready for
the next morning.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Wow, thank you for that, because I was like today
Breakfast Club is on hiatus this week.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I was tired. I've slept all day.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I still don't fully feel all the way like, oh wake,
but I'm here. I also have a fresh face of
makeup because it's glowing. But I left my makeup at
the breakfast club studio and I was like, I'll come
back and get it. Child, went out, had a couple
of drinks. Shout out to Saint Lounge here in New
York City, forgot all about it. So here we are
fresh face, you know, giving beautiful skin, beautiful glow, glow
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by God. Okay, yeah, I know that's right, Mom, Yes, yeah,
she like I did that. So yeah, let's get on
into the latest. This is the latest update that we
have in Sean Colmb's aka Diddy aka puff Daddy's situation.
You know, your girl love to take y'all a court,
Love to take y'all a court. So, as you guys know,
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Diddy has been preparing to go to court. There's been
you know, different conversations about what the jury will look like,
you know, how they will vet the jury, discovery and
evidence across the board from prosecutors to defense, and what
evidence will be used, what.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Can be submitted.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Remember they were arguing about that Cassie video and if
it could be submitted because it wasn't the original, then
they found the original.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
So all of that has been going on.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
My source who's in the know of all of this
says that is one of you know, Puff's team's big
conversation points right now is that they don't know the
other evidence. But before we get there, let's talk a
little bit about the fact that it was announced today
that Diddy is looking at and trying to get Brian
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Steele to be his attorney, to join his legal team.
If you've been following the Young Thug or worth following
the Young Thug case, which was one of the longest
standing cases in Georgia state history, you know that Brian
Steele did not play at the to the point where
he was willing to go to jail with Thug so
that he could be prepared for court the next day.
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This is a big, big, big gues like, this is
a big deal, Like if Diddy is able to make
this happen, it's a huge deal for multiple reasons.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
One of the major reasons, you know, from what I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Told by a source who is very familiar with you know,
Diddy's team and how things are moving for them, is
that Diddy's team thinks of Brian Steel as a dynamic lawyer,
and I think, like I said, we all do. But
to have other attorneys, you know, quote him in this
way that means that they know how much of an
asset he will be to the case and what you know,
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their strategy right now that they're planning will be. And
at this time, you know, we've talked about so many
different attorneys when it comes to Puff. You saw a
guy named Mark Agnefilio who was featured in that TMZ
doc that they did about Diddy. There's been a multiple
different attorneys. Puff is being advised by a bunch of
different people right now for what I'm told, But they
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do want like a powerhouse attorney to kind of seal
the deal and bring the jail together. So not jail
like the jail were sore happens to be sitting, but
I mean like kind of mesh the team make things,
you know, coencibe amongst everybody. Now, if a judge admits
Brian Steele, that means it's a go. From what we
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are told, Brian Steel is down for it. You know,
they've had the conversations. It's just all about it for
judges gonna say yes, you can come here and practice.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Besides, you know some of these local attorneys.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now, what I found out in researching this and talking
to my source was that Brian Steele, I'd always thought
that he was from Georgia, He's actually from New York.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
He studied at.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Fordham University School of Law, which is a game changer
in my opinion as well. So you have him as
this dynamic attorney. He actually prides himself on working through
cases with extremely high stakes, like that is one of
his like top tier things. And we again we saw
that with Young Thug. Young Young Thug was facing up
the forty years behind bars when he decided. When Thug
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decided I have to take that plea deal, I remember
getting on already on being like, I don't know I
would have took it. You, facing all of this time,
I probably would have took that. But they were so
confident in what they had.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
The evidence that they had exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Now, another thing that I think is like, you know,
a big deal is like the fact that he is
from New York is important because a lot of you know,
the laws that the accusers have leaned in on to
be able to bring these accusations despite the timeline and
like how long ago these accusations occurred for some of
the victims. Their local laws that are making it where
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you know, there's no stipulation on when you can and
cannot come forward, which have made the filing of these
things even possible. So to have a lawyer that is
from New York that will understand those specific laws to
New York a lot better than any other attorney from
anywhere else that could come in and ask for an admission,
right he's coming back home. And then you have an
attorney who has already proven and showed us because of
(09:03):
the young thug situation, that he's really good at finding
these gray areas and leaning in on them. And one
thing that I like with attorneys, and I like to
watch when it comes to attorneys, is that I feel
like an attorney's job is to find a loophole and
use that loophole or those loopholes to create the conversation
and to change the narrative in the conversation around their client.
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Then persuading a jury then to make it work, and
then getting you know, the verdict that they want.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
If I'm a prosecutor's.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Office and I've brung this huge case against this big
name celebrity. I would come out the back swinging with
the evidence, period because I want to nail it right.
So whether what they have evidence wise is strong or not,
I think that right there gives you almost like a
strategy point of here's what I can lean in on.
Because court of public opinion is a real thing. I
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don't think that Diddy's trial at all cannot be influenced
by what's happening outside the court room. It's just not possible.
He is way too famous. Cassie now in her allegations,
became way too big of a story. This whole thing
has become a circus in a mockery. There is no
way right. So you need a judge like O'Brian Steele,
who has shown us again because of the young Thug chrial.
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He outside, he know what's going on. So now getting
to the evidence. So djvladd tweeted a tweet that I
thought was pretty interesting. He said Diddy is going to
trial in four weeks. I spoke to a lawyer close
to the case. He said the case is winnable, but
Diddy's eagerness to quickly go to court is going to significantly,
significantly hurt Diddy's chances of winning. He should have pushed
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your trial to next year to give his defense time
to make their case. Now here's my thing. I understand
what he's saying, because let me tell you, guys, what's
happening right now. There have been a few superseding indictments.
But when you supersede it, that means you add or
create a new one that then attaches to your original claims.
So it's basically like new claims, more charges.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Right. That has now happened three times with Diddy.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Diddy's team has filed and has said multiple times they're
not showing us anything.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
We can't prepare a trial. We can't prepare to go
to a case.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
We can't prepare to go to a court and stand
up against something that we haven't even seen.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Legally, we're entitled to see this.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
If I'm Puff's team or if I'm Diddy, I want
to wait too, because I want my team to see everything.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Every nook, crany crack, ounce whatever it.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Is them to decide to shield the evidence. Discovery comes
in right when you make an allegation against someone.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Discovery, you have time for discovery? THEMM, yes, yes, but
that's the time trying to get there. You won't let me.
I'm trying, you won't let me. So where I was
going with this is is that Diddy's team has requested
that multiple times. And the person that I spoke to
that is close to this situation told me, look that tweet,
(12:02):
that blad tweet. It makes a lot of sense. But
if you're puffed, you're you're acting like my mom, you're anxious.
You won't even let me get the words out. Because
if somebody doesn't have something you like, yo, why would
we raid around until they find it? Or because he's
standing on his innocence and a lot of this it's
I'm innocent, so there ain't gonna be nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
So let's run it up.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Let's do this right. But as an attorney, as an attorney,
you gotta.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Cover all your bases because what you don't want to
happen is evidence.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
You don't want to get in court and get to
a point where you don't have any more time to
sit with what is discovered with that evidence, and now
you gotta try and fight that in real time. You
don't want that to happen. Now here's another thing, though.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
We are also ready like tomorrow to see the evidence
since they've acts for the discovery.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
So you obviously think Diddy is innocent.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Mom, honestly think that we should stay with the evidence.
You good, don't go around making allegations from the court
and don't present evidence. But you know who knows we
did in a new day and time. That's everybody who
wants to be a star on Puffy's back, even me.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Hello Puffy back a little slippery now baby led up?
His baby rolled up? Now, Mom, I don't know, but
they don't.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
They willing to make that slide. Girl, They've mered need
to make that slide.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Well, I did want to get to this final point.
So what I'm told is that this Friday, April eighteen,
twenty twenty five, the judge and Diddy's cases going to
be making a very important decision decision. My source tells
me that the judge will be having a conversation and
making decisions on how things will move forward based on
the fact that now Puff's team is claiming that the
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prosecution violated the deadline to show discovery and if that,
if that happens, then Puff's team will then be granted
a two month almost like a stay where they now
have these two months to take more time to get
their things together and to try and go through this
whole discovery phase again, because again they're telling puff and
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they're telling everybody, we want to cover all bases, baby,
we willn't need no surprises, none whatsoever, none, not narrow surprise.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
And in other words, let this not be a case
of hearsay.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
One hundred percent one hundred percent. So next up in
the latest Marvin Sapp, this is gonna be real quick
because I just wanted to bring this back because we
talked about Marvin Sat in the opening couple days of
the podcast, and I told y'all that I thought it
was ridiculous that this that instead of Marvin Sapp just
apologizing and saying, yo, I know I was wrong for
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telling them to lock the doors until the church raised
forty thousand dollars, he decided to be like, you know what,
that happens all the time, and now I'm receiving debt.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Like I just feel like he took the account of
that was needed.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So Marvin Sat posted today something that I want you
guys to take a listen to. He is now releasing
a song inspired by his closed the Door viral forty
thousand dollars moment. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Close Someone.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Close the doors and when he posts this song, the
caption says, the last few weeks have been tough, misunderstood, misrepresented,
and misinterpreted, and even maligned. But I've learned that when
life hands you lemons, you don't just make lemonade. You
build the lemonade company. And that's exactly what I've done.
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Close the Door isn't just a song, It's a soundtrack
for survival. I'm releasing it this Good Friday, not Good Friday,
on the Lord's weekend, not Easter weekend, the day we
honor the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
It's like he closed the door on death, hell, and
the grave. I'm closing a door on the noise, the pain,
and everything that tried to break me. This song will
bless you. I believe that with everything in me. My
assignment and this season is through this song to help
you close the door too. This will be available on
all streaming platforms this Good Friday.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
This is BS.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Well, that wasn't that. That's not gonna be a good
Friday for him.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Not at all, Because this is BS for you to okay.
People were upset, People felt away because they don't want
church and money in business, in corporate to intertwine. We
all know that it does because the church is a business.
A church got bills, they need money to raise their bills,
and they do all these things. But people want to
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feel like when they come to church, it's of God. Yes,
it's a gift, it's religion. It's a good feeling. It's
the hug you need, it's the inspiration. It's the putting
the pieces back to a broken feeling day, week, month,
year situation.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
We don't want to feel like you're trying to flip
us for a reup. And that's what this song feels like.
And I know that Marvin sapp is a gospel superstar,
so it's all about the business at some point, you
know what I mean for him, But as a man
of God.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
And because he is great, I love him. I love
his songs. There's great inspiration. That's enough, Marvin. You didn't
need that extra step he went to for.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
This one, ain't it. This This is a misstep. And
I hope that you know in your your your you're
worshiping I know.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You know is a very Holy Stable still time.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I hope that that time allows for you to sit
down and just see why this is a part of
the problem, especially in a black church.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But this is a part of the problem. People feel
like church is a gimmick.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
People feel like the pastors and spiritual leaders are caricatures
and that they're a gimmick and that they're always on
bs and this don't help.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
You Gotta get it the right way.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yes, that's how we're close and people can do that.
You have an idea.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
All you gotta do is shine it up.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Get it the right way, period, Marvin. Get it together
and get it the right way. Now we are, you know,
bringing and coming down to the end of the show.
And y'all know, before we get out of here, we
always get outside in the streets.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Outside, we outside, we outside outside of twee.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You know, we love outside outside in the streets, outside
of the tweets. So today on Twitter, I was having
a conversation and I'm like, yo, y'all been in my
comments like with so much great constructive criticism and and
words of encouragement and just you know, great feedback from
the show telling me what y'all love, and we just
you know what I mean, there's some real conversations going on,
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and I'm like, I feel like this is such a
community already.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
We had the event yesterday and I felt such a sense.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Of community, and I think that's what we've been talking
about a lot today as well. It's like and being
a part of a part of community, in a part
of society, getting it the right way and doing things
the right way, and when you do that, people feel it.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I was so inspired yesterday.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
It was explosive to your gathering your today to welcome
you in this new.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I pod podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
No I don't watch it clothes, but yes, like just
just really big sense of community has been you know
the thing. I feel like that's kind of what we've
been talking about today with all of these topics as
well too.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
But I asked Twitter, what is it that I can
call you guys?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Like I said, I'm trying to figure out a name
for my podcast audience. Does anybody have any suggestions? Fifty
people replied y'all had a lot of replies. So one
person said the Lauren de Rosa in her hive or
the Listeners, Someone said the Lorosa's. Another person said Lauren
Listeners or Lauren Lrose's listeners. The one that I really
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love is somebody said somebody called you guys the Lowriders.
I thought that was fire because I like the low
Riders because because the news you give, I didn't even
think about it like that, Yeah, they knew like takes
y'all on the ride, but also to y'all be riding
for me, like y'all be coming out swinging for me,
(20:24):
and I'm not mad about that at all. And like
when y'all do some of y'all because some of y'all
just be shady and y'all be trying to be like,
you know, like all the other minstrul maddies or menopause matties.
But for the ones of y'all that be sending you know, good,
like the real constructive stuff my way, I'd be feeling.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Like, oh, like, look at y'all hold down for real
the right way, doing things the right way.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
So I really like the low Riders.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
But go to my Twitter tweet me let me know
what you guys are thinking, what you guys liked. Some
people also said the mochahs because the bron girl grinding
the brownies because the brown girl grinding shout out to
my homegirl. She has a group called the Brownies already,
so I wouldn't even do that. Oh okay, Darius Love Hell,
I'm gonna shout you out because you want you wanted
the airtime. I'm gonna give it to your baby. He
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gonna say, Lauren's lace fronts. Oh no, but yes, let
me know what y'all want to be called right now.
It's leaning toward the low riders. So we're gonna figure
that out by the end of this week and by Friday,
I'm gonna be let y'all know, like, boom, baby, this
is what it is. That's what just called us, what's gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Be, this is what we gonna be, period, mom, period.
So we're gonna close out with that.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Me and my mom.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Actually gotta get to this Broadway show. So you know,
as always, I appreciate you guys, because at the end
of the day, y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking
about all of this stuff, but y'all choose to be
right here with me talking about it, and you know,
I appreciate that. I'm Laura le Rosa, I'm your homegirl
that knows a little bit about everything, and everybody thank
y'all for tuning in.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
This is the latest with Laura l Rosa. I will
see you in my next episode.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Love,