Cardi B, Colorism & Why Every Vote Matters

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Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your Daily Digger on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Y'all, it is election day.

November 3rd, 2026, it is election day. Today is a big midterm election. And I'm going to be honest with y'all, I've been voting since I was of age. My mom did not play about us voting the minute that I was able to register to vote in my high school, my senior year headed to college. My mom was like, voting is a tradition. Even before we could vote, honestly though, my mom would make sure that on voting day, we went to the polls with her, we understood the significance of it. It's always been one of those things in my house, right? So, now that I'm grown and I'm out here and I'm in the world, and you know what I said? I'm out here and I'm in the world. That sounds like, you know how the pastor be like, the heathens is in the world.

But now that I'm grown and I'm out here and I'm living my life and, you know, I'm seeing how these things affect me directly, I'm grateful for my mom being as, like, a stickler about things as she was. Let's get into the checking behind the scenes and just talk about why and where that feeling is coming from for me.

So I am registered in Delaware. Y'all know I'm from Delaware. Registered in Delaware to vote. And this past weekend, we were home in Delaware. I say we, me and my boyfriend, we were in Philly. He's from Philly, I'm from Delaware. So we were home, you know, Delaware, Philly, sister cousins. We were there and I made sure before we headed back to Jersey, I got a chance to vote. My plan was to vote Friday. That was like my free day after we did The Breakfast Club, live conversation down there in Philly. Wow, I haven't really talked to you guys since all of that. Oh my God. I mean, I have, but like we haven't really got into the things, the things. But yeah, we did this amazing live Breakfast Club broadcast from Philadelphia, which was cool. And it was so cool because, you know, being on the production side of things and wanting to build out the latest Lauren LaRosa podcast, a live podcast, and or two or three or five, you know, more video on my YouTube channel, Lauren LaRosa TV is the goal for this year. And I say this year because I'm always, I'm already thinking about 2027 So being on the production side and seeing kind of how all that work producing a live show and being a part of the production team as we did that was cool to see. And it was all in the name of HBCUs. Shout out to my HBCU Delaware State University. The big game went down last Saturday on October 31st, 2026 Halloween. We beat Norfolk State University again. Okay. Not gonna lie to y'all though. I was in the suite that we had. I was there with like my cousins. You know, my uncle is one of the leadership in athletics department at Delaware State University. Shout out to Tony Tucker and my friends and some people I went to school with. And by the third quarter, I was like, yo, delstating, I don't know if we'd be taking this home. I didn't see it, but we did it. We pulled it off. It was a very, very, very entertaining game, especially those last two quarters. So shout out to the team. Shout out to Deshaun Jackson, who is the head football coach at Delaware State University currently. And Mike Vick. Shout out to Mike Vick, who is the head football coach at Norfolk State University currently as well.

Now, after this whole thing went down, you know, my plan was to vote within it and make it to Delaware. It's about a 30 to 40 minute drive from Philadelphia to Delaware, depending on traffic. But it didn't happen. We were out and joined all the time. I'm mad, though. I missed the tailgate for the Delaware State University and Norfolk State University game. That is like our second homecoming that we get in the October season. And I missed the tailgate. I was so tired from the days before and all the things. By the time we got there, it was time to go to the game. So I didn't get to see a lot of people, I did see some people, but not everybody.