You Can't Cancel Greatness (Usher and Chris Brown Competition and Kanye West is back?)

Tank (0:00)

Let's get, let's get, let's get into it, time to do it.

Loren LoRosa (0:02)

I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.

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Tank (0:06)

You know she don't lie about that, right? You already came in hot.

Loren LoRosa (0:09)

Hey y'all, what's up? It's Loren LoRosa, and this is The Latest with Loren LoRosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now today, we are gonna hop right on into another episode of The Latest with Loren LoRosa. And as we do always in every single episode, we're gonna check in behind the scenes of The Grind first. So let's get it.

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Back, back, back on the grind.

Loren LoRosa (0:34)

All right, so checking in behind the scenes of The Grind, y'all. We are officially on the birthday countdown. Okay, my birthday is November 22nd. So we are less than 11 days away from my birthday, depending on when you listening to this, okay? I'm turning 35 years old. I'm a full adult right here.

I really, really didn't have too big of a plan for my birthday. I was just kind of like, you know, I'll be home for the Thanksgiving holiday. I'll be with family, me and bae, doing our little trip thing that we be doing on nothing little. He don't do nothing little, okay? Everything big. But we doing a trip and you know, I have some other work related things that will coincide in the line perfectly with my birthday as well too. So excited for you guys to see those across social media. I'm Loren LoRosa everywhere, L-O-R-E-N-L-O-R-O-S-A.

But the plan may steadily be changing. I was sitting down and thinking today just about the year that I've had. And I've talked a lot to you guys about this year being such a foundational year for me, not just as a personality. And you guys have been through the journey with me. I've learned a lot about how to be and how to vocalize and how to prioritize and responsibility of being a personality. But in the business space, literally as a business woman, this has been a year for me, a big year. There have been a lot of changes, there have been a lot of additions, there's been a lot of subtractions. But there's been a lot of learning. And I think in all of that, it feels like the foundation is a lot more steady than I was when I think about my birthday last year. Although the door was kicked down, honey. Okay, we were walking through the door, knowing that we wanted to build tables in certain spaces. But I think the foundation for those tables, a steady foundation at that, I am going into 2027, really knowing that the foundation is steady.

Everything that has not fallen on yet will, because I've set myself up for it to do so. I'm really excited about celebrating my birthday this year. I think that's why I'm like, and I'm a celebrator. I love holidays. I'm super traditional. I love birthdays. I love all the things. But I think this year, I feel very complete and very whole. Things aren't perfect on a day-to-day. Life-lifes, things happen. But I do feel very complete and whole walking into my birthday this year. So I don't need much. I don't need much. I don't need to do much. But I am down to celebrate that because God is good and has always been good. And baby, when you walking in favor, sometimes you got to cheers and toast to that. So I've also been on this fast. I said I would fast until my birthday. No hard alcohol, so no tequila or anything like that. I'm a tequila girlie and no drinking per se. Nothing heavy during the week has been my motivator. And if I do drink during the week or if I am drinking even on the weekends, my biggest thing has been not overindulging. It's one of the seven deadly sins is doing a little bit too much. And I told myself and tell myself every single time I fast that even if it's not the biggest complete cut off or whatever the case may be, the discipline and my relationship with God and the conversation about that discipline is meaningful and I know he hears it and I know he sees it. And right now and normally when I fast is for a sense of clarity. It's when a lot of change is happening, when I'm having to make decisions. And I just always want to make sure I'm making decisions not by the human, by the flesh, but being led to spiritually to make decisions for the divine alignment that I know God has me walking in. So that's what I'm on right now as we count down to my birthday. I'm really excited about that. My mom's here in New York this week. We got some doctor and health things to follow up on with her. And we've already spoken and prayed about favor and all the things she does. Her follow up scans for her since she's beat her cancer some years ago.