The Next Level Looks Different (Brandy and Monica Residency and Druski on SNL)

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Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LoRosa, and this is another episode of The Latest with Lauren LoRosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, you know we start off checking in behind the scenes of The Grind, let's get to it.

I am exhausted today, y'all. DJ Envy had me out last night until about 1.3 in the morning. Had to be up, my first alarm went off at four o'clock. I'm literally running off fumes right now. We were out celebrating his daughter, his oldest daughter Madison's birthday. Every year, I always forget that me and Madison's birthdays are literally like weeks apart. Every year when they celebrate, he calls me to invite me, and I'm like, oh my God, my birthday is coming up. He's like, I know crazy. But we went out last night, and y'all know that I'm doing my fast. So I literally had one, barely one glass of champagne. The biggest thing is not to overindulge, but barely even did that. But I was proud of myself because if I had been drinking, I probably would have took a shot or two just because the record room in New York is this club that does all R&B sets, vinyl sets as well, or vinyl sets, all R&B vinyl sets. The DJs can only DJ from their actual records.

It's a good time. So I know I would have got lost in the sauce at a good time, 100%.

But that's the point right now of this fast, is teaching me more discipline. Because I feel like right now I just need it, I need some clarity, but we're tired. I came in this morning, I was on time and everything, but your girl is tired. And still have some running around to do. I told you guys my mom was here in New York for some testing. Everything went well, first round of testing. We are good, God is good. And my mom was not even nervous about much, per se. I think at one point she was a little nervous, a little scared, because whenever you're having things happening with your body or symptoms of things that are unnormal, you're gonna have a lot of questions. Especially with her background, being a cancer survivor and things of that nature. Anything that comes up that's a little bit ordinary, we don't play about. It's her and my grandmother as well. My grandmother's age is the reason why I do that. But they think I'm always tripping. So I made her do an extra day of just breathing testing and stuff like that. All is well. Amen. But let's get on into the latest.

So last night, while figuring all the things out with the family, I got a phone call and it was a friend who was like, hey, we have this announcement about to go live. We want you to be a part of the announcement. I'm like, okay, well, what is it? They're like, we can't tell you. I got to talk to you closer to like 9, 10 o'clock. I'm like, okay. But people call me all the time with exclusive news and embargoed news. Embargo just means that somebody will give me something and they'll say this can't be talked about until this time on this date or whatever. So that's what it was. It was like, okay, we're going to give you an announcement. It can't go out until this time, I'll call you back and let you know what the announcement is. So around that time, I get a phone call back and they're telling me about an announcement that's going to happen. Y'all, why was it Brandy and Monica are launching a Las Vegas residency? I did not expect to hear Las Vegas residency and Brandy and Monica. I'm going to be honest with y'all, not because they don't deserve it, not because it's not going to be good. It's going to be all of the things above. It is going to be amazing. But to be honest, I really felt like we got all we were going to get with the Boys Mind Tour. Because it was epic. It was like the reunion of the world. It was Brandy, Monica coming together. It was them telling their story about how everything got all disassociated and disconnected, and them allowing other people to come in the middle of them when they were younger, and all the noise and all the chaos, and us seeing them reconnect as grown women with these legendary iconic careers, children that are now able to grow up with each other, and just so much they can relate to because they both have been famous literally since they could blink basically.