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Legacy, Love and All of The Above ( Iman Shumpert on Club Shay Shay and The Mann's Inspiring Relationship)
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Iman Shumpert
All.
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Lauren LaRosa
I am on a countdown. My grandmother turns 88, literally in less than 24 hours. So I'm preparing for that, getting everything ready to, you know, just go hang out, have a good time with my grandmother and family and whoever pops out for her this weekend. I'll also briefly be in Baltimore this weekend for the ciaa weekend. I'm hosting a cheerleading competition and then bringing in my behind. Right on back to grams and into the family. But, yeah, I'm excited. I was talking to my grandmother this morning. First of all, I thought my grandma was turning. And I don't call her grandma. I call her my mom. I thought my mama was turning, like, 85, 86. And today I was talking to her, and she was. I was like, my mom, how old are you turning? And she was like 88. And I was like, yo, like, that's crazy. My grandma's almost 90 years old. But you would never know, baby. Let me tell you all something, okay? That you know how they say black don't crack? Black grandmothers, they're timeless. Like, they just are. My grandmother gives 65 years old. I promise you, she gonna tear somebody up in spades. This weekend, it's gonna be a great time. We gonna have Good food. I gotta. She don't even know how I'm about to do it up for her. And I couldn't tell her because she'd be like, save your money, save your money. And I am saving my money. I am. And we were talking about that too. I'm doing such a good job of saving my money and just kind of preparing myself. We were having that whole like, I won't be here forever conversation and you know, we were talking about a lot of things. But I was telling my boyfriend when I sent him just, you know, some of the things we were going to be doing this weekend, he was like, he was like, okay, big mama. Cuz I. Y', all, I'm so excited. I'm excited for her to see the house that we're going to do our staycation in. I got catering coming through. I wanted to surprise her and do like nails and all of that in the house, like have somebody come. But I called her today and she was on her way to the nail salon. She do. I tried to get her to stay in, sit still. I'm like, it's going to snow, Just stay in the house. And she's like, no. But I was telling him, like, you know, literally without my grandmother, I wouldn't be here. Like you guys would not be hearing from me. I mean, literally, right? I wouldn't be here because my grandma had to have my mom in order for my mom to have me. But I mean, like, just career wise, me and my grandma are really, really close. My dad was, you know, my dad, he's not. I was gonna say he's not Mia. I don't know how you describe my me and my dad's relationship. Like, I know my dad, of course, and me and my dad, yeah, like it's all love. But my dad wasn't in the household. My dad wasn't, you know, super consistent all the time. So my second parent was my grandmother. Like my mama has been like my saving grace so many times all of my life. And when I decided to leave TMZ and I decided to leave la, I didn't have any money, but I didn't have really a choice. My grandmother actually had had a slight heart attack. And when that happened, it was already pressure on me because I was just, you know, after my mom had battled cancer and she was good, I still didn't feel okay with being so far because just everything I realized that changed because I've been in LA for years and then now I'm home in Delaware taking care of my mom for this year. And that time my pop up passes away and, you know, my mom gets better and my grandmom's chilling, she's cool. This whole time that I'm in Delaware, but I just began to notice how much I was missing, like the small things I was missing and just the things that they needed because they were getting older. And I'm like, yo, I can't be here 24 7. But at least I need to figure out being closer. And I'm not the best now. Like, you know, I do as much as I can, when I can, but with work picking up, I don't always have the time to always be there. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm doing a lot, but it's better. I'm closer. But I say all that to say, my grandmother when all of that, when I made those decisions to come this way because of everything I just described, I didn't have a job. Like, I was still working at TMZ for some time. I had taken leave, tried to go back to la, tried to move my mom to LA with me. Just was too much. When I decided, like, okay, this doesn't work anymore for my life, for my, my mentor, for nothing, literally. I was in Delaware. We had an event space that we had open shout out to anybody that was, you know, supporting me during the event space air. The event space was called the spot 302. It was in Delaware. And I was just doing as much as I could with that and just, you know, I had picked up a few projects. I was working with Inscape, espn. I wrote for them a bit, I hosted a little bit. I was just doing anything I could to like have money coming because I wasn't getting money from a leave or anything like that. And I quit my job. So I wasn't getting any unemployment, y'. All. I was figuring it out. And my grandmother and my mom, they've always like done property related things like ownership, right? And my grandmother, I remember her one day we had a conversation and she was just like, look, I think you're at a position where you need to lean on yourself and employ yourself. She gave me a few instructions, she told me what to do. She told me how to basically like, you know, take some things that she had put aside to me, put aside for me, use it, reinvested myself and basically just set myself up financially where I could at least have money coming in or money available when I needed it and be able to pay my rent. I was still living like very like hand in hand. Like, you know, like, it was. It was a. It was a very different time. Especially because I've always been working, always been doing things, but I was just figuring it out. And in the midst of that, I was guest hosting at the Breakfast Club. And then I moved to New York. And even then, she held it down. You know, if I needed a little rent money before, you know, a job kicked in or whatever, she has always held me down. So now. And we've always talked about me getting in a position where I was able to save money, I was able to consistently do for myself. She suggested. My grandma always says to me, I know you're gonna be fine, honey. I know you're a star. I know you're gonna be good. I know you're gonna figure it out before. That's before she lectures me about not saving money or something like that. Right. And we've always literally talked about what life would look like when I got to that point where, like, I'm able to provide for myself consistently. Cause even in la, it was such a fight. Cause I was so far and things were so exciting, expensive, and it just. Money was just different over there. So now that she sees that I'm in a space where, like, I'm doing so much, but it's benefiting me and I'm getting further in my career. She told me today, like, I'm just so proud of you. Like, I'm so proud of you. I. You're doing everything that you talked about you were going to do. You're, you know, you're getting better at understanding that, like, you got to prepare for rainy days. I'm proud of you. So I told, you know, bae, I'm like, look, my. I would. I literally would not be here. You wouldn't even hear of me or know of me. And that goes for you guys, too, as a lowriders. If it wasn't for my grandmom and her prayers. But listen in her holding me down and let me borrow that money and do all the things that I've needed to do. So she gonna get the fruits of my labor period, like, hands down, like, she has been the biggest. Her and my mom. But, you know, my grandmother has, like, even when my mom didn't understand it at one point, my grandma didn't understand it either. But she never asked me any questions. She just always supported me. Always. And I mean, big girl support sometimes, like, coming through with the. With the checkbook. And not even just financially, just like, you know, we're also really close. So, like, I can call her. We talk about everything. She's just taught me so much. So I want this. I mean, I always want my mom and my grandmother's lives to feel like they've worked so much and now they can just kind of enjoy, you know, what they've built and that me and my brother, we got it. But with this birthday, I mean, every birthday special, but this, this year, this birthday, 88 is a big number. She on her way to 90, y'.
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Lauren LaRosa
It's official. She on her way to 90, then on her way to 100. And her biggest thing is, like, she just wants to spend time. Like, she's always telling me, like, you need to make sure you schedule more time to spend time with us. So that's what we doing this weekend. We spending time. It's going to be amazing. I can't wait until she walks in and she sees the house, because that's another thing, too. Like, we were talking about me buying a house, and she can't wait for me to buy a house that I actually live in. And at one point, she wanted it to be in Delaware so bad. But I think she's realized now that for work, it really can't be. But this weekend is going to feel like that. It's going to feel like we're all living in a house together, having a good time, doing all the things. So I'm excited. So you guys will hear more about that Monday because, yeah, we're getting into it. I always say we don't have a lot to talk about behind the scenes of the grinding, and it'd be a whole thing right now. Let's get on into the latest because there is a lot to talk about. Hey, y'. All, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa. And you know, I give you your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. And for me to give you all the factual content when I get into the details. I gotta make some phone calls. I'm calling lawyers, attorneys, managers, publicists. Shoot, I'll even call your mama if she's the person that's gonna give me the exclusive I need. But did you know that 2026 will mark the 150th anniversary of the first ever phone call. It took place on March 10, 1876. And from the call that sparked it all to the first long distance phone lines, the first line across America, the first line across the Atlantic, the first round the world call, the first commercial cell service, the first 911 system. AT&T has been connecting people for 150 years in so many different ways. I'm just happy that somebody's going to answer the phone because how else would I bring y' all the news all up in the people business but they answer. Thank you. AT&T connecting changes everything AT&T support for
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Lauren LaRosa
So Iman Shumpert, who, you know, NBA player at one point, big NBA player at one point, actor. Now you can watch him on the shy. Also was married to and shares children with Teyana Taylor, sat down for an interview with Shannon Sharp on Club Shay Shay. And this. Watching this interview, wow, this. It was. It was such an emotional interview. But watching this interview, I think for me, because, you know, I don't. I'm not like a sports fan. Of course I know Iman Shumpert because of Teyana Taylor and having reported on him, you know, previously, even before that situation, but within that situation as well, too. I met him at the Black Effect podcast. So I don't know if he really cares for me too much now because of some of the reporting I did on him and Teyana Taylor's divorce when it was happening. But nonetheless, I have no issue with anybody. I'm literally always just doing my job, whether people understand it or not. This interview really made me like. I was kind of in awe of his ability to, like, be as vulnerable in this space because I feel like I've seen interviews with him before. And even when I watched. I used to watch Tiana Taylor and Iman Shumpers reality show they had about their marriage and everything that they had happening. And, you know, I feel like you. You knew him a bit, but you didn't really, like, know him for real. But when he sat down with this interview with Shannon Sharpe, I was like, wow, like, he is being very vulnerable. So straight out the gate, you know, Shannon Sharpe asks him how he's doing, and then he mentions the fact that Iman Shumpert's father passed away not too long ago. And it gets very emotional.
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Iman Shumpert
Do you remember the last conversation you had with your father? My bad. My bad dog. He really. So he really wanted me to. He liked when I. When I wear the suits, that full suit. He liked when I wear a shirt and tie and stuff. He always got dressed for the office every day. He would wear a shirt and tie and last combo. He just was like, man, you look good in them suits, man. I like that you taking jobs now that you wearing that suit. And then he told me, don't come home, finish filming. Cause we was filming the podcast, about to come home, finish filming. He gotta go in the hospital. He'd be right back. Yeah, that was the last one. But did you know your father was that sick, Mike? He never showed. He never shared that. I Mean, I mean, I knew he had to go in the hospital. I thought he just had some, like, you know, people get older. Yeah. Being there a couple days and he be right back out. Yeah. And then knowing him, I just, you know, I would have been. I guess I naturally worry more about my mom. Cause, yeah, I ain't never. Dude don't ask for help. He don't. Yeah. Even in them last couple months, man, it was, like, hard to help him. You know what I mean? We ain't know what was going on for real, but it's like the help we thinking we doing, we just like, yeah, dad. Like, you can ask us for anything. Like, you know what I mean? Like. But I ain't even, like, noticed that he's going out his way to say thank you.
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Lauren LaRosa
Because, like, now that's one of the things that I'm talking about my grandmother and I'm talking about 88 and, like, you know, all these years to come, and I swear, man, like, my biggest fear is being without people that I love that. That have been a part of my life for my whole life. My grandmother, my mom, my brother, like, everybody, like, my family, like, y', all, it's. I know that living forever is not a real thing. And, you know, as people get older. I don't know about you guys, but the older people in my family, they talk about not being here forever as if it's something that they are just okay with at this point. And I think it is one of them things where you get older and you come to terms with, like, you know, life. You've lived your life and all of that. But I just don't know what I would do if I couldn't pick up the phone and call my grandmother and, you know, be excited about her birthday and, you know, all these things, or my mother or whoever. But I know that it's going to happen one day, you know, hopefully 20 plus years from now. So hearing him in this space and talk about all of that, it just made me think about that fear and what that looks like life. Post people living their fullest life and getting up on out of here. What does life look like and how am I preparing today for that to happen? And I don't think you really can ever prepare, if I'm being honest with you. But I do think that there are things that you can do to make it where it's like, I'm. I'm. I'm. I have a peace of mind that I poured into that person or in that relationship as much as I could. And that's the sense that I got from Iman Shumpert when he was talking about his dad and his relationship with his dad. Because there was one point in the interview where Shannon Sharpe even asked him, like, if your dad was sitting here right now, what would you say? And this is what Iman said.
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Iman Shumpert
If your dad was sitting in this chair today, it's been gone a year and you could have a conversation with him, what do you think he would say to you and what would you want to say to him? I don't know if my dad held back anything from me, so I don't, I don't think he'd have much to say. He probably just reflect on whatever I'm going through at the time, at the moment. But.
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Lauren LaRosa
And to me I'm like, you know that Red. I would have nothing else to say. We talked every day. We've said everything that we've needed to say. At this point I would just be in awe of his presence and I would just want to feel that. And I'm like, mank Shay, Shay ain't waste. No, he. They weren't even an hour into the interview and it got this like deep in his, vulnerable like Iman had to take a second to get himself together to even get through the interview. And I mean this just recently happened. His father passed away back in October of 2025. So you know, this is very fresh and again, you could tell his dad was very impactful in his life. So he's still dealing with that. But what I also thought was interesting was to hear him talk about his views on marriage now. And the reason why I segue from the father conversation and family and you know what that instills in you and them not being here one day is because what I've been having conversations with myself about is the biggest thing I can do to prepare myself for after the people that I love are not here anymore is take everything I can from them, wisdom wise, even the things that they do that I don't want to repeat in my, in my life, right? Like take all of the good, the bad, the ugly and just be in a space where like I'm living a life that they will still continue to be like I'm proud of, you know what I mean? And really being true to myself in that. And I mean, it seems like Iman has gotten to the point. He says, you know, him and Teyana Taylor, they're in a good space, everything is cool now at some point. And I told you I don't think I don't know how Iman feels about me. I don't know if he cares for me too much. Last time I talked to him, he was cussing me out. But they've gotten. Because of the. Because the divorce. There was a lot happening. There was a lot of, like, tense moments that were being talked about and replayed in the media. And I understand it is something sensitive to people. Like, I get it. But he says they're in a better space and that things are good, which is really important when you're raising kids. But his take on marriage after the fact, like, post marriage, right. Post divorce, I thought was interesting because it seems like he's really gotten to a point where he understands himself, at least for now. Right. Because things change, people change. You meet somebody that can change your whole, you know. But it seems like he's in a space where he really understands what he wants, what he doesn't want, and why. And that's important as you're, you know, healing from things, as you are figuring out who you are post various things. Divorce, losing people you love, you know, trying to instill what they've taught you every day in your life. Let's take a listen.
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Iman Shumpert
What about this marriage? I don't know if I'll do it legally. Like, I don't want to sign papers and all that. Like, we gonna do a contract. We gonna do a contract. Owning something that we both trying to do anyway. I'd rather the contract be about a business. If my mama. At the wedding, we got married. If my mama was there, it happened. It happened for sure. But this whole. They get to be a part of it now. Cause we went to the courthouse and now we gotta do this now. I gotta. I ain't doing all that.
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Lauren LaRosa
Look, I mean, I might not necessarily agree because for me, I want the paperwork. I want to do the whole shebang. You know what I'm saying? But I think I've always known because I'm very inquisitive. And I've always said I don't believe in divorce. I don't want a divorce. I want to figure it out. I want to work it out. But prior to having to figure it out and work it out, I want to make a really good choice. And not that Iman and Teona Taylor didn't make a good choice in choosing each other. They have two beautiful babies that have come out of it. But what I'm saying is that I want to make a choice of, like, even if the person that I choose to be with is not the best situation for me. Because of something that is happening, we can get to a point where we choose each other to figure it out and it doesn't happen for everybody. But that's just what I want for myself.
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Lauren LaRosa
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Iman Shumpert
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Lauren LaRosa
and I saw another interview. David Mann who they they listen. They low riders, y'.
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Iman Shumpert
All.
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Lauren LaRosa
They listen to the podcast. So David, David man and Ms. Tamela man were on Jamal Bryant's podcast at him and his wife do. The podcast is called let's Be Clear. Now they are having a conversation about all of the things and they get into the marriage conversation. And one thing I love about David man and Mr. David man and Ms. Timberl Man's relationship or their marriage, let me get it right, their marriage is that their union is so strong. And I don't say that to say that they've never gone through things, you know, and I don't know, you know, if them things have ever got them to the brink of being like, nope, we ain't doing this no more. But they figured it out. They've been together for 38 years and I learned today that they've never had a separation. Let's take a listen. How many years have you all been married? 38 years. Wow. April will be 38. Yes. No separations. Come on. She said no separations. We loving it. We work through it. Mean, I wasn't mad at him, but we work now being in a a marriage, like they got the union so strong and y' all both celebrities. I know it come with the it come with some task child. I know it do. Because let me tell y' all something every single day. Like, now that I'm in a relationship and I'm in a relationship with a man, honey, I mean, okay, I'm in a relationship with a person that makes me want to do better. It makes me want to figure it out. I'M not perfect. My. And my mouth is still crazy. I will pause that. But, you know, I don't have to. It's still crazy, you know, so every now and then, it'd be like a hold on, all right, who you talking? And vice versa. Like, you know, there are tough moments. And even though our relationship is new, I feel like when I. When I hear the men's have a conversation about what their marriage is, that's what I envision my marriage to be. And now dealing with a person who, you know, I wouldn't be opposed to marrying. I wouldn't be opposed to doing, like, very permanent things with. I always think about, what is it that I can do to just ensure that, you know? Like, it's like you really just want to. You want to hear the person. Even in moments where I'm like, I don't want to hear that. Not like, you know, where I'm trying to put on my best. Like. Like standing 10 toes down, 11 if I have to. You do want to hear the person out. You do want the person to be happy, because you want to be happy and you want to be heard out. So I've had to learn a lot about enforcing boundaries that I didn't even know I had to learn. If I'm being honest with y', all, I thought I was so good at, like, arm's length. Don't play with me. I'm showing up, I work, I go home. Respect me, and I'm not going to beg you for it. But, like, I thought I was really good at that. And I think I do do a really good job because I respect myself, so people respect me. But when you're dealing with. Now, I wouldn't even say people in the limelight, because he's not in the limelight. He's behind the scenes. And I still feel like there are certain things that I have to chin check boundaries on. And it's just. It's a very touchy space, and I think it's taboo. Like, people would love to act like, you never, ever, ever have to feel away about anything. Like, jealousy is never a thing. Insecurity is never a thing. Like, Ms. Timberlake, man, says she had to tell somebody. Like, hold on. Back up off my man at a meet and greet. Let's take a listen. I had a lady the other day come in, full frontal hug around the neck. And I said, ma', am, you can't do that. She was like, why? I said, cause I said so. I know that's right. I say, you bold enough to do it. I'm bold enough to do it. I know that's right. Get off of it him. I know that's right. What if you wasn't even fresh? I know that's right. Give me 50. 50, baby. Come on. I mean, that cougar was like, Y. People love to act like these real moments don't happen. And now I'm learning, like, no, they do. But y' all just find a way to. First of all, you set your boundary as she did and as I'm sure he will, moving forward, period. But also, you just find a way to, like, not let that throw away everything else until that moment, and you move forward better. Like, that is the goal. And that's what I took from Iman's conversation, the conversation that, you know, I watched Jamal Bryant and his wife have with the man's as well. It's like, all of these things will come. I don't care if you're the most blessed sanctified holy water on the. You know what I mean? The white cracker and the cranberry juice, all of the tongues and stomping. I don't care how all of that you are or the complete opposite. These things will come in a relationship and what are you doing to deal with it. And y', all, I'm like, really a grown up at this point because now I know I be like, before I used to know I was on BS and I wouldn't care. I'm just like, I don't care. Whatever. Now in this new space, baby, okay, we might be on. We might be on BS a little bit. Every now and then I feel like you got just a little. Just a little razzle dazzle so that, you know, talking about setting boundaries so that, you know, BAE knows don't play with me. But a lot of accountability, like, you know, is happening in this era of my life. A lot of it. And I'm happy about it. It's not always easy. But I am happy about it, though, because I feel like it's not even about for the other person or maintaining a relationship for myself. I'm always in a good space when I'm accountable because I'm like, all right. And even if the accountability is hard because I'll fight you to the end, I'll defend something to the end. But sometimes in what I'm learning now, even when I do that, I'll come back and be like, okay, this was wrong. This was right. Whatever. That helps me personally because I'm learning a lot about myself in My weak spots, the spots that I need improvement on, that I could do better on, that I could maybe get a little help with, you know, like. Like, you know, therapy, whatever the case may be. Like, I'm learning so much about the things that aren't perfect about me, and it helps me so much navigate my relationships with people. So now it's like, you know, everything isn't somebody else's fault. And that has changed my life a lot. It's made some things harder because you want things to be somebody else's fault sometimes because it's just easier to get through. But that has really changed my outlook on so much in life in general, just for myself. And of course, going back to the, you know, the relationship. And not even just like a relationship, boyfriend, girlfriend, but even in my friendships and also to my work relationships. And also, too, like, I think one of the things that I do a lot of, you know, as the oldest kid in my family, the only girl, it's like, you know, the eldest daughter is like, it is a beautiful thing, but it's also traumatizing as hell because you were put in a position where, like, life hits and you just have to figure it out so many times and sometimes from a very early age. And it builds you to this strong person that, like, just is so, like, ain't nobody, ain't no stopping us now. We're on. Oh, y' all heard that? You heard a little harmony? You heard it? Okay. It builds you into one of those type of people, but at the same time, behind the scenes, you're exhausted, you burnt out, you're miserable, you're sad sometimes you're lonely, you're there. All these things that you feel. And I'm getting to a space where I'm learning to not take a lot of that. Those things on, to just deal with things as they come. Be okay with the cars that were dealt to me and not internalize a lot of things, because some of it just really ain't my fault. Now, the stuff that is my fault, I'm able to better identify now. And I'm getting even better at it. I'm at the beginning stages. But don't worry, we gonna put this baby in sport. Cause it's always an amg, okay, we always AMG line over here. But until I get to the full force of what that looks like, just even in these beginning phases, it's really been helpful to be able to look internally and understand what I should digest, what I should hold on to, what I should be accountable for, and which just really, like, out of my control for real. Like, period. Like, there are some things that are just out of my control and there's nothing I could do about it. So I'm taking all that in. I'm learning all of that as I go through these different phases of life and people get older and I get older and I'm talking about buying. I can't believe I'm talking about, you know, marriage and, you know, all that. I can believe it, but I just don't feel that age yet. Like, you know, I always thought when I got to, like, the ages that I used to think were old, you would feel it. I feel like just yesterday I was walking onto my college campus, like, trying to figure out life. And now here I am. Latest with Lauren LaRosa the podcast. Eight million audio downloads later, the Lowriders. Y' all are here and we talking about marriage, accountability, therapy and me wanting to get my sh together because I love people. I'm not mad at it. It's a journey. Look, we're just starting, okay? We're. We are just starting to hold me accountable, but, like, you know, not. Don't hold me too long. Take your girl out for a drink a little. Put me down and take me out for a drink a little bit in there, but still hold me accountable. This has been another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I'm your host, Lauren LaRosa, and I tell you guys every episode. My low riders. Listen, y' all could be anywhere with any old body, but you choose to be right here with me. I appreciate you guys for that. I'll see you in my next episode.
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