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You're listening to an iHeart podcast.
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I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.
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Exclusive know if you don't lie about that. Right?
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Lauren came in hot. Hello, guys. It's Lauren LaRosa. And this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. I am the home girl that knows a bit about everything and everybody. And as always, the latest with Lauren. The Rosa is your dig on everything, pop culture, and those conversations that are going to shake the Rosa room. Now. Today we are back with another episode. I'm here. Brandon's here.
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Yep, yep. I'm back.
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We are here. I'm. I'm in Sunday clothes. It's raining here in New York. And I actually, like. We got to get through this because I'm headed to a fitting with Romeo Hunt. Romeo is going to be dressing me for the Met Gala after activities. Invites just keep coming, keep coming. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's different.
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I know how much you like your fashion, so watching these things happen for you is. It's inspiring as well. Just watching it. So that's dope.
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I'm happy. Thank you. I'm in a really good space. Like, I'm feeling like the seeds that I've been planting are starting to grow, and that's a good feeling. You hung over from the strip club?
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I was hungover. I was not at the strip club, though. I was hungover. I feel like allergies are kicking my ass, but I'm good, y' all. I'm happy, y' all.
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So let's get on into the latest. So Beyonce. We had talked a bit on the Breakfast Club and here on the podcast about Beyonce and. And the Cowboy Carter tour and, you know, just things happening. But now Beyonce has been hit with a cease and desist. So earlier this week, Beyonce was hit with a cease and desist lawsuit because the Las Vegas Sphere. Sphere. The owners of the Sphere. That word is kicking my ass. Claimed that Beyonce's production team used an image of the Sphere without their permission, which is crazy, because legally, it's like, yes, I get it in. They have an argument. But. But it's Beyonce. Like, I feel like you just, like, be happy that Beyonce used anything in relation to you. Like, what do you mean?
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No, I mean, looking into the story, it seemed a little petty because, you know, they wanted her to perform at the Sphere, and she didn't reply to. What was it? James Dolan. They said the CEO of the Sphere, he wanted her to perform, and she never applied to him. So it Seems like you can't use nothing about the sphere, and none of your productions don't even acknowledge us anymore, since you're not. But that's what it felt like reading up on the story.
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So you feel like without that whole background information or the background, her not performing there, they wouldn't have dropped this lawsuit.
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Yeah, I feel like you know things about relationships. If they have built that relationship of, you know, you just do this for me, I'll do this for you. And I don't think that, first of all, I want to know if it's can do. Does he have a case? Because it's just a image of a building, right?
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Yeah.
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She used the. In the video, she used the Eiffel Tower. She used the Statue of Liberty. She just used monuments that are recognizable and cities.
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Got you.
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So I don't see what the issue is here.
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So for context. So during the opening night of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter tour. So that was back on April 28, Beyonce used the Las Vegas sphere in one of the visuals that. Like one of the interlude visuals now in the video. So it's the two Hands to Heaven song, the one that R. Kelly's ex wife, Dre, she depicted. So Beyonce is depicted as 100ft tall, and she's striding through Las Vegas before she stops at the sphere. Then she lowers down before picking the venue up, tapping it with one of the fit with one of her fingers and walking away with it in her hand. For those of you guys who are watching the video here on YouTube, you can take a look here. For all the audio listeners, I'm describing it because I know that you can't see it, but please go check it out. It'll be posted to the brown girl grinding Instagram into my Instagram. Lauren LaRosa. Now, the clip went crazy because people are always hyped to see Beyonce visuals. But who you're talking about Madison Square Garden boss James Dolan. He was upset about this, and people were actually tweeting, like, imagine you can't get booked Beyonce. So now you mad and you send a lawsuit. Right. The biggest issue that he had here was that because you saw her in the. With the sphere in Las Vegas, there was big speculation that her tour would be hitting there. So. So basically, they feel like they were wrongly depicted or like it was almost like a false advertisement that could have fell back on them to people that would have wanted to come and see her in Las Vegas. McCarthy went on to say that BE's interlude has caused significant speculation that she would end her tour with the Sphere residency. Because you remember some time ago, there's. There's been. Right now, even right now, still there's rumors that Beyonce is supposed to do a Las Vegas residency. So people thought that this was her saying and signaling, because she does this in a lot of her art. Taylor Swift does it as well, where they dropped these Easter eggs. So people thought it was an Easter egg. So the letter, the cease and desist that was sent to her company, Beyonce's company, Parkway Entertainment, asked her to stop using the venue sphere without permission in the interlude so that it wouldn't cause any confusion. It has recently come to SCG's attention. This is what the letter said, that a Cowboy Carter Tour interlude video contains an unauthorized use of SCG's intellectual property. The letter states SCG is sure that multiple aspects of the interlude video, including other brands, clips, and music, were cleared by the tour with rights permissions from stakeholders whose works were used in the video, as is common practice. Scg, however, was never asked if the prominent appearance and manipulation of SEG's sphere venue was. Could be authorized. So basically what they're saying is, is y' all ask us to use a lot of other stuff and other people in this. So when it comes to music, other, you know, images or whatever, and in Las Vegas, you know that those buildings and the way that they look, it's all a part of the brand. And they do a lot of that, like, architecture on purpose. Right. And they. They make them staples. Like, you can think about, like, how certain places like Planet Hollywood and stuff like that look in Vegas. So from what I'm reading here, I think that they would have a case if she didn't go about this the right way, which confuses me because it's Beyonce, so it's like, why wouldn't she? But it does seem a bit petty. Yeah, it does. It does seem a bit petty. Now, I. I brought all that up because this lawsuit dropped. And then there was more Beyonce tour news.
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Yeah.
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So people have been talking about the tickets, and I thought with the tour going viral, more people were going to just start buying the tickets, even though, you know, you don't got the money, but, you know, it's like fomo.
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Yeah.
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Did you, like. I know I don't know how much of a Beyonce fan you are, but did it make you want to go and see the tour when you were seeing, like, roomy and, like, you know, blue performing on stage and stuff?
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I've been hurt by a lot of Beyonce fans, so it's a weird little thing going on.
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You mean like exes or like. No, let's explore.
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
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But I thought irreplaceable hit different, huh?
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No, I thought it was more about the album. I think a lot of people weren't big fans of the actual.
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You're the second person to tell me that.
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Yeah, so I think that's more of like, Renaissance had like, great, and then I think it's that. And then I think it's just money, the economy. I feel like those tickets are expensive and like, people are real selective nowadays of who they see live. If, like the big artists.
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I agree.
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So I hearing, like, if they're going to Kendrick or Chris Brown, you probably don't got the bandwidth to be paying for Beyonce as well. Like, those are. That's probably two stacks right there between the two.
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Between like, including outfits and travel and all that. I get it. But I don't know, I just feel like there's always like the FOMO thing, especially, like with us, like we going. We going to spend a dollar on what we want to spend a dollar on if we feel like we're missing something or whatever. And I think, I don't know, maybe it's because Beyonce kind of just recently came off of the Renaissance tour. Cuz normally with Beyonce tours, for me, the hype is, my God, I got to get the ticket. I got to get the ticket because I don't know when she's going back on tour again. She just came off of a tour, so a lot of those fans did Renaissance. Now car Cowboy Carter is here. There's rumors of a Vegas residency. So it's like, maybe you feel like I'mma see her again.
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She's on tour a lot. Like, she's not like, I don't feel like people aren't necessarily like, missing her yet.
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People have been saying, though, that a lot of people felt like Renaissance was her last tour, but a lot of people feel like Cowboy Carter might be her last tour. They said at every tour, though. But a lot of people feel like that. But she's had some issues. You know, this last week, a couple of hiccups on stage, which I know somebody getting fired. You don't play with me.
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I saw you wrote it. You did. Technical issues, yo.
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Okay, so there was one of them where she couldn't find her mark on stage. Like her ex on stage. And she's like visibly looking.
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Yeah.
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Then there was another one where she had to like, there was. She was trying to take. There was like A stunt that she was doing with, like, a glove, and she's holding her mic, and, like, people are trying to take that off of her while she's on stage. And she visibly looks pissed. And she's normally really good about handling, like, when things are not going right. Like, this is not just not a first rodeo, of course. Oh, no pun intended. They be like, who taught Lauren? No pun intended. She always saying it like, I swear I'm a rapper, like, double entendre, don't play with me. But, yeah, so the fact that she looked visibly upset, and we all know it's Beyonce. She's the queen of live performance. It's like, oh, somebody ain't gonna have a job.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Somebody family ain't getting no more free Cowboy Carter tickets. And, yeah. So people. I think people right now are still trying to figure out if it's worth going to. Not worth it because it's Beyonce. But basically, if it's like, if I'm spending my last dollar, is the show, like, you know, monumental enough that I want to spend my last dollar? If I got to pick and choose. And then you got these moments going viral countering the other big moments where everybody was like, oh, my God, you know, she got her babies out there. Blue was dancing. We meeting roomy. Now she just thinks her mom, Tina Knowles, on stage for, you know, New York Times bestseller for her matriarch book. And then all this, you know, these little hiccups happen and people not centered on it. I don't feel like you said you.
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Didn'T even see it, that I didn't see that specifically.
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Okay.
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But, yeah, I've been seeing clips, and the. The biggest thing I've been seeing is blues improvement in dancing. Like, I almost couldn't believe it. Like, yo, who is like, first I see. I'm like, who is. And she looked. I think she taller than Beyonce. And I'm like, who is that? Like, she cooking. I really love that, because I remember article came out that the slander she was getting from the first, like, videos that came out of her on tour motivated her to do better. Now she's like, oh, she's a dancer now.
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Yeah.
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I wonder if that's what she wants to do, like, if she wants to go into that path. And, like, it looked like she could keep up, like, even if in Beyonce's shadow. All right, this is a wild take, but was Beyonce dancing like that in her.
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No. Beyonce. No, no, no, no, no, baby, no. In the beginning of in the be, y' all can come and get me off y' all want. Because people be upset when you dissect anything Beyonce and don't just, like, give it to her all the way. In the beginning, no. Beyonce developed as. I mean, Destiny's Child had a stage transist. They were moving. They were dancing. But the vehicle in the machine of Beyonce, like, The whole Beyonce vs Sasha fierce era, like, it was really cute, and she was doing her thing before that, but she evolved into this, like, machine of, like, who the hell is that? Blue Ivy did that. So I would say faster, or maybe we just are paying attention a lot more because of social media.
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Yeah.
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But, baby, when I saw Blue Ivy walk out the Deja Vu that opening night.
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Yeah.
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I said, oh, Blue Ivy is t. Yeah.
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And then I'm trying to, like, compare it to the professional dancers behind it to see if, like. But she's keeping up just like, yeah. It's not like a nepotism. Like, oh, I just want to put my daughter on stage.
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She's. She's of kind.
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Keeping up with the damn. I'm like, I'm. Wow.
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Eating them up like crazy. Like, even her faces, too. Like, she know when I'm.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. The attitude faces.
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Yeah. You know, like.
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Like, okay.
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That's why I'm not dancing. Well, I don't know. If we. If we do get that Las Vegas residency and we get to see Blue on stage, and. You know what I mean, it's probably not gonna happen at this fear now because of this cease and desist that was sent. And they. You know, before, when it was reported that she was doing the residency was going to happen there, the negotiations fell through. So for some reason, I don't know, Beyonce. Beyonce and that Sphere team, they just can't figure it out. Like, they just can't get it together. So we'll have to.
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You know, it's the first few days, though, right? They got time to get this together.
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Well, Beyonce's doing. Her. The tour that she's doing now doesn't have anything to do with the Sphere, but. Because when the Las Vegas residency rumors dropped and then news had came out that if she did do the residency, it was going to be there. But then news came out that those negotiations fell through. Like, they couldn't. I don't. It was, like, demands from both sides that, like, I guess they just weren't meeting in the middle correctly. And then she was looking at other locations, and then it just never happened. So that's why they're like, yo, you can't just throw us in Your promo, like, now you got your fans thinking you bringing something here that's probably not. It's nothing on paper.
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So there was negotiations.
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I thought there was.
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I thought she wasn't. She didn't reach back out.
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No, no, no, no, no. So Beyonce had a loss. So the New York Post. Actually, I put up an article. Beyonce had a Las Vegas show scheduled at Allegiant Stadium on July 25, 2025. Initially, there were reports of a potential residency at the Sphere, but those negotiations fell through. Yeah. So.
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Okay. I thought she ignored them completely. Okay.
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No, no, no, no.
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So it just didn't work out.
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No, it didn't work out that time. Yes. Gotcha.
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Gotcha.
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So moving on, what I'm excited about, because this is the reason why I got to get on up out of here and go to a fitting Met Gala. The MET Gala, the 2025 MET Gala is taking place in New York. The theme this year is super fine tailoring black Style. Now, this is an ode to black dandyism in all of its refined and sophisticated glory. Brandon, do you know anything that I just said?
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No, it was just mad words going. I started looking around the room. I'm like, yes, you got it. You got it. You're the fashion girl.
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Have you been seeing anything from the Met Gala on your timeline? I like to ask people outside of fashion how they view what's happening in fashion.
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I saw the theme. Mostly I forgot the name of it, but said around black people.
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Black people. Most people are just excited about that. A lot of people were like, you know what this is? I saw an interview when June Ambrose sat down with Complex, and they talked about the Met Gala a couple months ago or a month or so ago. A lot of people feel like this is Anna Wintours because they put together the Met, you know, like, this is their home. They feel like this is Anna Wintour's. Thank you to Andre Leon Talley. So Andre Leon Talley, big force in fashion. He was an editor. He was like, a lot of, like, the major black, not even just black celebrities, because he had his hands in everything with everybody and a lot of the big fashion houses, but a lot of the big, you know, us black people in fashion. He. He. He helped to, like, kind of bring them to the forefront, to develop them, to, say, to allow the couture world to meet them for the first time, because it wasn't a place where we were welcomed. And he was always one of the, you know, if not the only black people that you would see front row at A lot of these couture shows and these couture houses. Like, he did so much just by his presence and, you know, doing everything that he did behind the scenes in front of the camera for black people in fashion, but for people in fashion in general. But he was a black man, you know what I mean? And then he passed away. And people felt like at the time when he passed away that Anna Wintour and, you know, Vogue and, you know, just that whole couture world didn't do enough for him. Like, he was even. Like, at the time when he passed away, there was conversations about, like, you know, his family struggling to pay for his funeral. And just like. Which was crazy because when you think about who he was as a. A journalist, as a editor at large for Vogue, creative director, stylist, like just an American fashion hero. He. There have been reports of him going through money things for some time before his passing, but I think people just. He gave so much. Yeah, he gave so much art artist wise, you know, just. He. He was radical renaissance. You know, some of the things he did and said, showing up with the big capes, just his looks, people just expected more. So I think some people feel like this is her. Her. Thank you to him for everything he contributed while being an editor at large at Vogue and all that stuff. But. Yeah, so the theme. The theme is tailoring black style super fine, Taylor. And black style dandyism is a sub conversation that is happening around the theme because it's. People are taking it real black. Black dandyism is looked at as, like, stylish, elegant. Think about, you know, Dapper Dan in the suits. Think about. I'm trying to think who I would describe as dandy.
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Oh, okay.
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Dandy Coleman Domingo.
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Okay.
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Like, you know, like, suited, booted. There's a lot of origins and a lot of history to it. Like, at one point in time, people, you know, were having conversation about dandyism in a way of, like, okay, it's connected to slavery. And it was a way for us to assimilate, like, kind of get away from the idea of slavery and to be looked at as, like, something. There's two sides of that. So that was our take on it. But on the other side, you know, white people and their take on dandyism during that time where we were trying to simulate and let people know, like, we are more than how our slave masters presented us. Not to get too deep, but I think that this is important. White people would use it as a way to, like, almost, you know, how you stage a Home when you're trying to sell it.
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Yeah.
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They would dress up their slaves like that and sell them as luxury goods.
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Damn.
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Yes. Now, the Met Gala is actually outside of just getting flying, people having a good time. It's connected to the actual museum itself, itself. And it brings attention to like, you know, different. Like the. A curated exhibit that they do within that museum that. You remember that one year they put Rihanna in the Met Museum. Yeah. And then, you know, it on the back end. It raises money for different things. And, you know, it's. There's actual substance to it, but we like to see people get flies. So a lot of people are looking out for asap. Rocky, who's one of the co chairs. Coleman Domingo, because he's always in the suit, so why not Lewis Hamilton, Formula one driver. He be fly. Pharrell Williams, who's also co chair. LeBron James is a co chair this year. Celebrities, though, that people are really looking forward to Dolce. And I am so excited for Dolce because number one, this is so on brand for her. Huh?
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She gonna come by that snake again? Sorry, go ahead.
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No, I think she's actually gonna have on clothes.
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All right.
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You can't tell her your ass naked or can you?
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I'm looking forward to that. You don't have some Hanes matches?
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Listen, the people are excited for Dolce. Dolce actually posted this picture. I don't know if you saw it, but she did this tribute to Andre Leon Talley, like when she first like her fly when she beginning of the weekend when she started stepping out for the events. And when I saw this picture of Dochi, I was like, okay, this year maybe people won't be so off theme and so off of understanding the nature and the history of the theme that like we're gonna be like, what the heck is going on? I know a lot of people are just kind of nervous. And the name of that book, Monica Miller, who's also helping to plan, you know, and like you, she's just helping to curate a bit when it comes to the Met Gala. Monica Miller, who is the author of 2009. A 2009 book called Slaves to Fashion. Black Dandyism in the styling of Black in the styling of the Black Dust word identity. They're going to draw from different things in her book. So the different literature from her book that talks about, you know, just performance and how performance translates into fashion and dress when it comes to black dandyism. So it's supposed to be like a real, like, I feel like we. We Might leave out feeling like we just left church. Like it's gonna be real deep.
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That's that when you're describing, I'm think maybe like Baptist, Sunday's finest kind of.
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See, but even that, I feel like you can lean into dandyism there because it's like the hats, you know what I mean? You got to come to church a certain way. We have. We as black people have always used fashion to assimilate or to tell a story.
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Yeah.
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You know what I'm saying? So, like, I love when we have a chance to kind of like put that on display. I hate that it doesn't happen as often at this level as it should still. But you know what I'm saying, like, we do what we do when we do it. I do think though, some people are nervous because people be off brand with it. People could be. It could low key give a little racist depending on who you are, what you wear. So be careful. Yeah. So taking it to the streets. Every other page are gold. The Met Gala 2025. Anticipation has been the biggest thing that I've seen on X. So tempting. Tony underscore tweeted everybody's hash. Everybody's teasing the Met Gala looks. Why is nothing good? Like, they look nice, but nothing has moved me. All of us, so cerebral. And I guess it's to the point, but I'm tired of archivals, archive pools all the time. Do you know what an archive pool is?
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I know what an archive is and I know where the pool is. But when you put them words together.
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It'S so it's the same thing. It's like you pulling from, like, a vintage brand. So basically, like a lot of times with, with the Met Gala, people feel like all these celebrities just get their stylists to go pull these, like, ancient, like vintage luxury pieces. But you still look like nothing. Like it ain't giving nothing. And that's the biggest thing. Have you ever watched the Met Gala carpet and been like, what the hell are people wearing? Yeah, that's what people are scared of. That's what this tweet is saying.
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Okay, got you.
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And then somebody else tweeted it says Momo, yola. I'm so nervous for the Met Gala to sing Esteem. Like, we could probably witness the most offensive ever with the way 2025 has been going. I don't know. Not the maga mommies at the Met Gala. Tommy Loren, please just stay home. I don't even feel like it. Like, I really. I don't know. Candace Owens, like, whoever, whatever. One of y' all girlies, just not. Please.
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I can see it.
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Yes.
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I'm saying not running for a third term, so I feel like he gonna start showing out and try to go out with a bag.
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If Trump came to this Met Gala, I would just instantly be offended, because.
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I feel like, what if he had the best fit on there?
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Leave it to black men that always just have room and hope for Trump.
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It's crazy.
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All right, all right, y' all, we gonna wrap it up here. So I've given y' all a lot of the background on this Met Gala talk for anybody who did not know what was going on.
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Now I feel like in my heart, Jason Ruler gonna be there. Now. I hyped myself up. Now I gotta watch that shit.
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What you trying to bet? If he gonna go number one and then if he's gonna fall again this year or not fall, allegedly. Whatever.
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I'll bet it all.
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I'll bet it all the time. All right, we betting $10.
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Okay.
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All right. I'm betting that. You betting he's gonna go.
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Yeah, I think he's gonna be there.
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I feel like he's tired of all of the. Like, I did not fall. I did not fall. But if. You know what? Maybe I should try to run into Jason Derulo and get him falling just one time for. You know what I'm saying? Just a little front flip, Pinky promise that you're going to pay the bet when I win.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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I got Pinky promise for $10.
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All right. Yeah. I don't trust you. You date. You date white women. I don't trust you.
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I do not.
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So we'll see if Jason Derulo shows up, if he falls or not, if Rihanna shows up. And just all of the dandyism that is going to hit the carpet, I'll be running out and about. Make sure you guys are following me at Lauren LaRosa everywhere. This has been the latest with Lauren LaRosa, and I tell you guys every single time, if you're right here with me talking about the These topics, I appreciate you. Because at the end of the day, y' all could be anywhere. But y' all are right here. Thank you.
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