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from Decisions Decisions ladies. Let's talk about taking control of our sexual health. That's grown woman energy. You may think HIV affects someone else somewhere else, but the truth is it's impacting our community and some of us are being hit harder than others. Black women make up just 13% of the women in the US yet account for nearly half of new HIV diagnoses amongst women. Taking care of ourselves is community care. Know your options, ask questions and protect your peace and your body. That's using your power. Sponsored by Care for the Culture from Gilead Sciences.
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Lauren LaRosa
I'm
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the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
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Lauren LaRosa
Hey, y'. All, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa. And this is another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversation that shakes the room. Baby. Now we are checking in behind the scenes of the grind. And I am so, so excited. Today kicks off Mother's Day weekend, and I am not excited because I'm expecting a child. Okay, don't misconstrue. I am excited because I'm getting to go home with my mom and my grandmother and celebrate them for Mother's Day. I love any weekend that I could take off of work and just be with my family, period, point blank, period again. But Mother's Day weekend is always really special for my family. We do a mother daughter sleepover that has been happening for years and years and years and years in my family. And this year, we are doing it again. And it's kind of crazy how when you get older, so many different things become, like, your responsibility that wouldn't have been your responsibility before. So, like, now me and my cousins are tasked with planning the mother daughter sleepover. And honestly, I have not been as big of a help this year. These last couple weeks have been crazy, but I will be there. Okay, so if you are listening to this right now, I am already headed to my mother, my family, to celebrate all things mom.
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And I don't know, I just think it's.
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It's the older I get, and I've always been a very family oriented person. I talk a lot about my family here on the podcast and wherever you listen or watch me at, but the older I get, I just really appreciate coming from a family full of love. Like, you know, everything don't always be perfect. People had their things or every family has their things. But as I navigate the world and I navigate different people and different places and different experiences, I feel like you can always tell the difference in people who were raised in love. And I mean in real love. Like people who actually love them and support them no matter what they can and can't do for them, no matter who they are, but, like, real bond, family love. And my family is very traditional as well, too. And the older I get, oh, my. I just appreciate and look forward to that so much. I've always been like this since I was a kid where I looked forward to, like, Anytime our family was getting together. But I just really appreciate it a lot more now. You know, with my mom and my grandmother getting older, a lot of my family members getting older, you just, I don't know, you just want things to. You want things to be like, right and calm and easy for the people you love in their old age, but you also look back and you just really want to give them their flowers for making sure your life was like that in the beginning of your life, like, very calm, very easy, very comfortable. So it's an amazing feeling and I'm excited and yeah, just I hope everybody is. Is headed out to have a great Mother's Day weekend for, you know, everybody this weekend that are grieving mothers and women in your family. I know sometimes holidays like this can be hard for people as well too. I want to provide you guys a resource. We spoke to Ms. Shanti Das and she has a grassroots organization called Silence the Shame. And their mission is to exist, to empower and educate different communities on mental health and mental wellness. And, you know, they, they provide resources for people who need help, who are going through various different things when it comes to mental health and grief. She has a grief booklet that she has dropped that talks about dealing with various levels of grief and sadness. She shared a story with us on the Breakfast Club about how reaching out to her community literally saved her life. And I just want to provide this resource because as happy and loved as a lot of us feel going into this weekend at the holidays, I do always think about the people that don't have that same experience because of, you know, whatever they are going through as well. So if you find yourself in need of someone to talk to, someone to make you smile this weekend, or someone to just hear your story or hear your grief this weekend so that you don't feel alone in fighting it because you're missing someone in your family. Text Silence. S I L E N C E to 707070. That is silence. And you text that to 707-070.
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Wheezy WTF Host
This is wheezy. Wtf from decisions, decisions. You know, a lot of us grew up not fully trusting the healthcare system. And honestly, the system has given us plenty of reasons to feel that way. But now it's time for us to take control of the conversation, to take control of our sexual health, learn the facts, ask questions, and advocate for ourselves. That's how we start changing the story. So let's talk. We like to think HIV is something that affects other people, but it is hitting our own community hard. Black women make up about 13% of women in the US but account for nearly half of all new HIV diagnoses around women. And being proactive doesn't mean you just don't trust your partner. It just means you trust yourself enough to stay in control. So know your options, ask questions, and protect your peace and your body. That's real power. Because protecting yourself isn't embarrassing, it's responsible. Sex is normal. Protecting yourself should be normal too. Actually, it's kind of badass. Taking control of your sexual health is grown woman energy. Sponsored by Care for the Culture from Gilead Sciences.
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Lauren LaRosa
Connecting changes everything.
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Wheezy WTF Host
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Lauren LaRosa
Okay, so quick behind the scenes moment about my business because people always ask me like, how do I actually run everything? So Shopify is literally the platform where I turned this tiny idea into a business. Before this, I was really just like popping up at any in person event, any vending opportunity I could, which I still do. But I wasn't really as focused online. I was like, you know, the websites are going to be too much to build out. I'm not like a super techy person, even though I can make things cute. And I didn't want to put up a website that would run my customers away. I wanted it to be efficient, to be easy. And Shopify helped me build brown girlgrinding.com out. Once I switched to Shopify, it finally clicked like, okay, I can actually do this. It's not about it being tough it's about using the right platform to make it easy. Shopify takes all of the guesswork out. I build my own store, I manage my community, own my own customer relationships. Plus this is my favorite thing. Shopify gets my products everywhere. I'm able to link stuff through Google, YouTube, TikTok, Shop, the Shop app, even ChatGPT and Instagram, which is very important for me. And Shopify's AI co founder, sidekick, game changer, let me tell y', all, right? So it's helped me not only optimize my site, it helps me look at my sales trends, it updates my product skills, all the stuff I'm absolutely not an expert in, but it's like having a genius business partner that never sleeps. And right now the Bronco grinding storefront and the Black Effect storefront is busy and Shopify is handling all of the heavy lifting. I love that for us. I am pumped, like so pumped that Shopify is going to show up at the Black Effect Podcast festival this year in a big way. And I will be there preaching this platform to all of the small black owned businesses that partner with us. So if you've been sitting on an idea or if you're ready to scale, which you've already started, this is your sign. Go to shopify.com Ben if I can do it, you can do it too.
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Lauren LaRosa
Now I wanna segue on into the latest because we're talking about people, you know, just having things that they're having to deal with in real life. And for me it's like, okay, we sit and we talk about all of this news and we report all this news, but what I'm beginning to learn as I get older as well too is like there's always there are humans behind these stories with real lives, real, you know, effects that the headlines really affect them in real life. And they're actually people are really battling these controversies that we are covering because it's trending or it's what people are talking about in real life. And speaking of a person who it seems like, you know, he's been battling a lot over these last couple of years. Kodak Black. So today I broke A story via my Twitter handle, Lauren LaRosa. L O R E N L O R O S A and we spoke about it a bit on the Breakfast Club as well, too, that Kodak Black is back at it again, going back and forth with the law, this time down in Florida. So I gotten a tip through someone connected to the show that Kodak Black had been arrested down in Florida. I reached out to his attorney, Bradford Cohen, who then confirmed to me that Kodak Black had been taken into police custody. Now, what he tells me is that Kodak Black actually turned himself in on the night of Cinco de Mayo because their team had been notified that marshals planned to arrest Kodak Black. So Kodak Black got in contact with his attorney. His attorney reached out to the US Marshals down in Florida, down in Orlando, Florida. He flew in from California and turned himself in. Once he turned himself in, he was then charged with drug, drug trafficking. And they mentioned MDMA and the charges. Now, Kodak Black's attorney, Bradford Cohen, tells me that he believes his client is being targeted by police. And here's why he's saying that. So for background, this is all stemming from an incident that happened in November of 2025.
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Wheezy WTF Host
So.
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Lauren LaRosa
So back in November 2025, police say that they were responding to a phone call of gunshots fired in a neighborhood. When they arrived, they found two luxury vehicles, one of them being a Lamborghini suv. They approached the vehicles after responding to the call with and there were a ton of people in and around the vehicles. Kodak Black, they alleged, is one of the people that were around the vehicles, but not in the vehicle. Police alleged that the vehicle smelled like weed. So the officers then had probable cause to search the vehicles. So they did that. Police say when they searched the vehicles, they then found $100 bill inside the Lamborghini SUV that had a white substance on the $100 bill. They then say they found a pink bag containing a plastic bag of MDMA. They found in that pink bag $37,000. And they also found in that pink bag a ton of documents with Kodak Black's name listed on them. Now, police say that at the time of the, you know, the search on the scene that no one wanted to take ownership for the bag or anything that was found. But Kodak Black did ask police officers if he could have the $37,000 back because he said that it belonged to his business even though the bag was not his. Now, police then say later on in their investigation, following these searches, they went on Instagram and Found photos, they alleged photos of that they found of Kodak Black with a pink bag that matched the bag that was found at the scene, where things were found in a very specific lighter that was I guess found at the scene as well too, was in another one of the photos in Kodak Black's possession. So they are linking Kodak Black to this bag that was found with the drugs from photos from Instagram. Now, originally, I will say originally, when I talked to Kodak Black's attorney, he had told me that police officers said that they found a bottle of cough syrup Orlean in the pink bag and on that bottle there were fingerprints and that the fingerprints checked out to be Kodak Black's. Now that is changing. Now, you know, Kodak Black's attorney is telling me there are no fingerprints on anything whatsoever, but that police are only linking him to that pink bag and charging him because of the photos that they found on Instagram. And he tells me photo that was found on Instagram was from a week prior to the search that police are leaning everything on. Now, Kodak Black made his first appearance in court yesterday. I was told, you know, earlier yesterday when I talked to his attorney that he be making an appearance in court that they, you know, weren't worried at all about him receiving a bond. And that is what happened. Even though the, the bond amount and how it escalated to me signals some things about what we might see later on in this case. And I'll get to that. But Kodak Black made his first appearance in court. Court yesterday. He pled not guilty. He asked for a jury trial, which is really smart in a situation like this, and I'll explain why to that as well. And he also waived his right to appear in person at an upcoming arraignment in Florida, which just means that his team will be able to go for him and just say not guilty again or whatever is needed. Now, the state requested that, you know, in light of his occupation and the fact that he is not actually from Orlando, that the bond be increased and that one of the conditions be that he surrender his passport. But Kodak Black's attorney says that Kodak Black is a Haitian American. He is a proud Haitian American, but he is an American. He has a US Passport. He doesn't have any plans on leaving the country and that they face cases that are 10 times more than the case that they're currently having a conversation with. And, and his attorney makes it clear that he's won, by the way, but the fact that he's a rapper doesn't give, you know, the state any legal room to act for harsher, a harsher bond or, you know, harsher bond circumstances.
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Wheezy WTF Host
This is weezy WTF from Decisions, decisions. You know, a lot of us grew up not fully trusting the healthcare system. And honestly, the system has given us plenty of reasons to feel that way. But now it's time for us to take control of the conversation, to take control of our sexual health, learn the facts, ask questions, and advocate for ourselves. That's how we start changing the story. So let's talk. We like to think HIV is something that affects other people, but it is hitting our own community hard. Black women make up about 13% of women in the US but account for nearly half of all new HIV diagnoses around women. And being proactive doesn't mean you just don't trust your partner. It just means you trust yourself enough to stay in control. So know your options, ask questions, and protect your peace and your body. That's real power. Because protecting yourself isn't embarrassing, it's responsible. Sex is normal. Protecting yourself should be normal too. Actually, it's kind of badass. Taking control of your sexual health is Grown woman energy. Sponsored by Care for the Culture from Gilead Sciences.
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Lauren LaRosa
Okay, so quick behind the scenes moment about my business because people always ask me like, how do I actually run everything? So Shopify is literally the platform where I turned this tiny idea into a business. Before this, I was really just like popping up at any in person event, any vending opportunity I could, which I still do. But I wasn't really as focused online. I was like, you know, the websites are going to be too much to build out. I'm not like a super techy person, even though I can make things cute. And I didn't want to put up a website that would run my customers away. I wanted it to be efficient, to be easy. And Shopify helped me build brown girlgrinding.com out. Once I switched to Shopify, it finally clicked like, okay, I can actually do this. It's not about it being tough. It's about using the right platform to make it easy. Shopify takes all of the guesswork out. I build my own store, I manage my community, own my own customer relationships. Plus this is my favorite thing. Shopify gets my products everywhere. I'm able to link stuff through Google, YouTube, TikTok, Shop the Shop app, even ChatGPT and Instagram, which is very important for me. And Shopify's AI co founder sidekick. Game changer, let me tell y'.
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All.
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Right, so it's helped me not only optimize my site, but it helps me look at my sales trends, it updates my product skills, all the stuff I'm absolutely not an expert in. But it's like having a genius business partner that never sleeps. And right now the Bronco Grinding storefront and the Black Effect storefront is busy and Shopify is handling all of the heavy lifting. I love that for us. I am pumped. Like so pumped that Shopify is going to show up at the Black Effect Podcast Festival this year in a big way and I will be there preaching this platform to all of the small black owned businesses that partner with us. So if you've been sitting on an idea or if you're ready to scale, which you've already started, this is your sign. Go to shopify.com Ben if I can do it, you can do it too
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did I search the Internet for answers to my cold sore problem? Now I'm stuck down a rabbit hole filled with images of alarmingly graphic source in various stages of ooze. I can clear my search history, but I can never unsee that.
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Lauren LaRosa
let's clarify a few things. So his team so Kodak Black's attorney asked the judge to set the bond at 10K. The prosecutors of the state asked for it to be 50k because they basically feel like it needs to be heavier so that they can be for sure that he'll show up to court and they again list the fact that he's a professional rapper and you know that he moves around and all these things. Now a judge pointed out that Kodak Black had previous felony convictions, had previous misdemeanor convictions, and had actually had been convicted of failure to appear in court a time previous. So the judge decided to go above both the prosecutors and the defense and set the bond at $75,000. And he cited that there were 12 previous felony convictions and two misdemeanor convictions and one failure to appear to be clear. So the judge says he's not worried about the fact that Kodak Black is a rapper. It's more about his record at this point. Like, I'm seeing all these convictions and I'm seeing that at some point you didn't even appear to court, you know, at some point in one of these cases. So I, I can't really trust that you honor the court enough to take it easy on you. And I think that that signals a lot for what we'll see. And that's what I was talking about earlier because, you know, I think the judge pointing out the fact that he doesn't care about Kodak Black being a rapper is great, but the fact that he's leaning on here's what your past shows me and tells me it doesn't sound like a judge trust the responsibility of Kodak Black, which is going to say a lot. But it's great that they asked for the jury hearing, which I pointed out earlier, because if that is the case now, it's not just on the judge to determine anything. You have 12 people outside of the judge who will actually be listening and determining. So it kind of stacks the court not in Kodak's favor, but at least gives him a. A more fair shot at trying to convince the court that he's, you know, not guilty, but also responsible enough to learn from his, you know, whatever, you know, in case he does get hit with anything from this case that he's able to learn from it and, and, you know, no harsh punishments and, you
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know, just they're thinking forward.
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His team is thinking forward. But Bradford Cohen is a really great attorney, so I'm not surprised at that. I don't know, I just think, you know, there's been so many convos over this last year or two about Kodak Black, and I feel like people always have so much say, so much to say about Kodak Black and his decisions that he makes out loud. But I just really pray that people in silent, like behind the scenes, what we're not able to see, you know, anybody that he will listen to is actually having conversations with him that need to be had. Because Kodak Black is super talented. He has been able to become, you know, a very successful music artist from nothing but you only get one life and it can't be played with. And I would hate to see a judge in a jail, in a jury, be the final conversations or one of the final conversations that he has in order for him to realize that because you know, once that happens a lot of times you lose everything and now you gotta start back over. And he's, he's been down this road before. This is not anything new. So it just seems like he needs some real guidance and support and I, and I pray that he gets that. So we'll keep you guys updated on, you know, where things go from here and any exclusive updates that I get. And again, whenever I'm breaking news in real time, it normally hits social media first and then I bring it back here to the latest for the real conversation and the real deep dive. So follow me everywhere. Lauren LaRosa L O R E L O R O S A and I tell you guys every single episode. My lowriders, y' all could be anywhere with any old body talking about all of these things, but y' all choose to be right here with me. I appreciate you guys and I'll catch you in my next episode.
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Wheezy WTF Host
This is Wheezy. Wtf From Decisions, decisions, ladies. Let's talk about taking control of our sexual health. That grown woman energy. You may think HIV affects someone else somewhere else, but the truth is it's impacting our community and some of us are being hit harder than others. Black women make up just 13% of the women in the US yet account for nearly half of new HIV diagnoses amongst women. Taking care of ourselves is community care. Know your options, ask questions and protect your peace and your body. That's using your power. Sponsored by Care for the Culture from Gilead Sciences.
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Lauren LaRosa
Whether you're calling the wise woman in
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your life, video, calling your girlfriends across the country, or checking in on someone
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who always knows how to make you
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smile, Staying connected matters. Those small conversations, shared laughs and quick hellos are what keep relationships strong. Even when life gets busy. Some of the most life giving conversations start with just a phone call. That's why AT&T guarantees a network you can rely on so you can focus on the moments and and people that matter the Most. That's the AT&T guarantee. AT&T connecting changes everything.
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Terms and conditions apply.
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Visit att.comguaranty for details.
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