The Breakfast Club - Faith Over Feelings ( NBA YoungBoy Complex Interview BreakDown)

Episode Date: January 21, 2026

In this behind-the-scenes check-in, Loren LoRosa gets real about feeling off her pivot — not unsure of her talent, but challenged by growth, pressure, and stepping into a new level of responsibility. She opens up about learning the power of organization, trusting faith when control feels limited, and understanding that new levels demand new versions of yourself. Then, Loren breaks down NBA YoungBoy’s Complex interview — from the Michael Jackson comparisons to his quiet dominance in touring, his relationship with fame, and the political questions surrounding his pardon. With honesty, humor, and cultural clarity, Loren dissects what the interview really revealed and why NBA YoungBoy’s influence can’t be ignored. This episode is part personal journal, part culture breakdown — and fully The Latest.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Checking in behind the scenes of the grind, which is where we get on in behind the scenes of just kind of like the day-to-day was happening, was not happening, all of the things. Y'all, today was such a day at work. I'm feeling so unsure of myself. I just had to get that out. I recorded a video coming here, and you know what's so crazy? It's like, it's not unsure of my capabilities. I think I'm trying to figure out, like, when missteps happen, I'm trying to figure out, like, what the root cause is. Like, what is it, what's happening within my mind and in my brain and are making me feel like I'm not owning my space the way that I should be?

I think we talked a little bit about that, you know, a few days ago when we checked it behind the scenes of the grind. And that's just been like a constant thing for me this week and a little bit of last week as well, too. I'd be so honest with y'all. I get on here and just like treat y'all like my diary or something. So low riders, don't ever say, I don't give y'all nothing because I'd be. giving y'all all the inside scoop but yeah i think it's just i don't know there's just been a um i mean there is an added pressure not really though but i guess so is i think that's a self

proclamation though like i think when things start to feel like they're added pressure they only are if you treat life or whatever the situation is like there is added pressure so i don't even want to give into that because that's not what i'm feeling i'm maybe it's a it's not overwhelming I don't know y'all can't describe it can't explain it but I'm just off my pivot a little bit I'm aware though as you guys see because I'm telling you guys so trying to just hone in on what it is one of the things that I did this week that I prioritized this week was organization and I think organization didn't really matter as much when I was coming from a place where like I don't know.

It's just not even that organization. It's not that it didn't matter. Organization just wasn't. It's never been a priority for me. Like, I've always thought it's cool. I'm good because I can operate in chaos. And I do think now that I am caring more about when I'm putting out into the world, how I'm putting it out with the conversations I'm having are because, you know,

I think when your name is on the line, there's just a lot more on the line. Organization is just like so much. It means so much to me because. The more organized I am, I think the better I'm able to understand the what, the why, and the relevancy behind anything I'm talking about. But also, like, even if I'm on an island stranded by myself and I don't mean physically, I mean like just mentally, right? Like, if I'm on this island all alone and I have to debate my way out of anything,

I always think about this. Like, if I'm in a courtroom and I'm the only person that believes that this person is innocent in this courtroom, the only thing that is going to say, me it's factual information but not just that the organization of it and how it's presented so i think that's one of the things behind the scenes of the grind that like i'm really trying to sharpen i've never really been a person that has been the most organized um i think most leaders that are creators have a sense of organization because you're delegating and stuff like that but i think the more with more responsibility just comes you know heavy as the head that wears the crown like the

more responsible the more responsibility requires a different level of you so i don't know if maybe like that's what's happening like i'm being pushed to like this next level of like okay delegate okay open your mouth when things are not right okay the girl like i think that's where i'm being pushed to so today has been like a tug of war for me just like mentally because it's a it's a battle when like you naturally like eat sleep and breathe certain things and then things are not a hundred things are not moving at a hundred percent as if you do that like and that's what like freaks me out about this this whole you know feeling of like unsure of myself i've never been a person that has ever been unsure about my

unsure about myself in anything so so it's two things it's the fact that i'm not in a new space It's not like I'm walking into a new career path and I'm having to figure out do I like it here. Why am I even here? How does my, you know, skill set and my capability even progress me in the space that I am in? That is not it because this is what I've been doing. I've been a new space physically, but this is the lane of things that I've been doing for some time. So I'm like, what the heck? Like, what's happening?

Like, why is my A game off? like what is going on and then secondly it's you know feeling unsure about yourself it's just a very it's a very hard concept of grass when you've never been through that but i try to like one of the things i told myself um today was that i'm not giving that too much light like i'm going to sit in the feeling of how i feel today i'm going to talk about it i'm going to get it out and once i do that you're not getting much else for me on that whatsoever because i think it's i feel like the feeling of being unsure lends to like the feeling of like faith. And for me, whenever I don't know what's about to happen in one of these like

nightmare spots in life where you can't control what's going on and like, you know, things just feel so heavy, whatever, not like work wise, but just like in life in general. Like whenever I'm in like a very crazy weird space where like you really can't control much of anything. The only thing that I control is the amount of faith that I have in God to like just allow me to do what I naturally do. In situations, we talked the other day. If you missed that podcast episode, make sure you go back and listen to it. But in situations, I always am trusting God that I will figure it out. And I do. In situations where I've learned that it is not my job to figure things out, I can't solve everyone's issues. I can't be, you know,

Like I can't be the crutch for everybody. Like I just can't. I trust God and I have faith in God to give me that like intuition of like, no, Lauren, you got to say no. No, Lauren, you got to put your foot down. No, Lauren is see something, say something. You know what I mean? So my faith is like unshaken.

But I just need to apply that to all aspects of my life right now. Like maybe that's it too. Like I haven't had a lot of time to just kind of like, sit down in the spirit like just really sit down have some conversations with god i don't even think i need to have conversations with god i think i need to be quiet and listen um so i think that's it i think that that you know that is kind of you know this uncertainty and this feeling that i've been feeling is a very new feeling for me i've never experienced this type of feeling in my life but I'm also, although I'm not in a new career field,

I'm physically in a new space and I'm physically at a different point in my life and different level of my life. So, you know, maybe, hey, that's, that's, maybe that's, maybe that is what it is. Like, maybe it's, you know, it's not a, it's not a new, like I didn't wake up and go decide to become a freaking dentist and I'm like, girl, what are you doing here? But things are different. Like, man, the podcast will be one in March. Oh, I got to start planning something for that.

I don't want to just have, like, a party to celebrate. Like, I don't mind doing that, like, on, like, you know, but I want to do something that is, like, very impactful to celebrate the first year of the podcast. Because I feel like this podcast, like, is literally like my baby. Like, it's grown physically, like, in its appearance, in its sound. It's grown in the thoughts and the conversations that we have here. because I've gotten more comfortable just talking to you guys. But it's also just like really grown me.

Just, you know, being responsible for a podcast and a show and working with a team of people, it makes you like really, this is what I'm talking about on the other entity of my life. Like, I thought I had it all figure out as far as like, you know, how this whole thing of like life and being an adult and grown-upness works. Is grown-up miss a word? No, grown-upness is not a word. But I thought I had it all figured out and then you know, you enter new levels of your life

and it's like, no, this new level requires a different version of you. You cannot use the old version of yourself, the old corners that you were cutting, you know, you can't do it. You just can't. So I really want to make sure that one year is like, you know, a thing. But I say all that to say within this year

within the podcast about to be one year's old, I think about just all of the things that we've been through here together on the podcast. That sounds weird because I'm sitting here talking to y'all and I can't see anybody. That still freaks me out too. Like that still freaks me out that I can see none of the low riders,

which y'all can see and hear me. But I know y'all out there, though, because we'd be talking on Twitter, we'd be talking on Instagram, all that stuff. When I see y'all in person, we talk about the podcast. But yeah, I just, there's it's a transition period and we've been through it together so you guys know from the very beginning but what I'm realizing as this podcast hits a year and you know this time has

partaken I think that the biggest thing is new levels require like new versions of yourself so I think that's what I'm walking into right now and I don't know maybe I was fighting that a little bit and just thinking I can handle everything and I got it and I'm like You know, I'm brown girl grinding. Like I got it. No. Not at all. So readjusting some things just, you know, personally but also professionally in the way that I do, you know, things day to day.

I think that's the reoccurring lesson that I've been getting over this last like five days. And maybe I just realized that in talking it out. And that's why I be talking to y'all, even though I can't see or hear you guys. You help me. All right, y'all. Let's get on into the latest. Enough about my problems. Let's get into somebody else is.

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Shut up. Listen to Atlanta is on the I Heart Radio app. Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. So NBA Young Boy sat down with Complex. He sat down with Jordan Rose. Now, I just want to say shout out to Jordan Rose over at Complex because NBA Young Boy is not an easy interview. Okay? And I don't mean he's not an easy interview because, like, he was rude.

He just doesn't really say much. And the little bit that you do get out of him, I think that there is, I mean, with any interview, I think of interviews like playing spades. There is, like, such a dance to the conversation between you and another person. It's really a dance when you do it with multiple people. So when it's like you and a team interviewing someone, but when it's just you and that person, the dance is a lot different because if I'm playing spades and I have a team member my team member knows you know all right follow suit

know what I'm cutting you know what I'm saying like you kind of know where to go we watchin the board we know how to play together but when you're interviewing somebody y'all aren't prepping together so that person you know it's not like it's a like a malicious battle in an interview whatsoever and this interview didn't feel like that either

Drayn and Rose did an amazing job but that person's coming from a whole different place and mental space with a whole different objective than you are so trying to figure out the best way to meet in the middle and have that conversation only the great to do it and Jordan Rose I've been watching him on Complex I feel like Complex is doing a good job of building him as talent Speedy Mormon who like you know is the face of Complex

and has been for a long time is I feel like I was telling a friend this I feel like Speedy is kind of like they're like he's out of here he's doing the bigger interviews he's traveling for the interviews you know he has a lot going on and the brand is smart to keep branding him and building 360 with Speedy in the way that they are but they're also really smart in getting a person like Jordan Rose who can be a little bit more readily available for all things for all talent um is you know in New York a bit more it seems than speedy I don't know it just seems like because speedy's all over doing his interviews.

But, you know, I'm sure because of the success of 360 with Speedy on Complex, Complex has gotten an influx of people wanted to host conversations because Speedy's conversations are so great. Jordan Rose is in that vein of things. And I think Complex was so smart

about the branding and the way that they chose their talent to lean into because Jordan Rose isn't 360 night and day from Speedy. there are two very different people, two very different interview styles for sure. Another thing that I thought was smart with complex, Jordan Rose is a lot younger. So, you know, I think the things that he's able to care about or just a little bit different than, you know, the conversations that Speedy are having and you need both. Like, Speedy's still young.

I think I'm going to Speedy. If you guys don't know who I'm talking about, I'm like, I don't know what Rock you live under. Because here at the latest, like you got to know the people. but Speedy Mormon is a correspondent for Complex. He's been there for a very, very long time. And to be honest with you, I feel like Speedy has built Complex's interview platform

to become a space where artists, like, artists and talent, you've got to go through Complex. Like that is a, it's like how you got to stop at the Breakfast Club when you go to New York, you've got to talk to Complex when you're rolling something out, whether you're a music artist, you know, an actress, actor, whatever the case may be,

because Speedy's interviews have been they've done so well and they pick up so where for talent so now complex is developing you know this other talent and i don't know if jordan rose was on the platform prior to but if he was they're positioning him a lot better now if he wasn't don't even matter because he is killing it right now i just wanted to show them that love because i watched their stuff a lot and it's really really good to watch but i also just know how important it is the big up the people in the seats that are doing the work especially the people that are on her ground and up because we all have days like I told you guys I was feeling today and in these last like

honestly it's been since last week where you're not always on you know a hundred you're not always you know averaging the best numbers from the court but you're still doing a great job so I want to make sure I don't know if they ever will hear this but if so I want to be the one to tell you doing a great job but getting into the interview so NBA young boy sat down with um Jordan rose and oh my guy y'all like he barely talks okay so i just want to give y'all an example of him barely talking i want you guys to take a listen to to jordan rose asking NBA young boy about um the master tour which is the make america slam again tour that NBA young boy did very successful tour we'll get into that um and the fact that Birdman was there like every tour stop in birnman talked a lot about the tour when he was at

versus he just kept yelling and kept me yelling and kept me yelling and kept me yelling about this tour But this is a perfect example of basically what the interaction for the most part was like in the interview. Let's take a listen. Birdman was also on the tour, like basically every stop. What was his role on the road with you? Just chilling. Being an unc. Being unk.

You got like a favorite memory on the road with him? Every moment. Every moment. Yeah. Yeah. That's somebody that's been with you since you were about 16. What does he mean to you? I think you should add something.

Do you want to get some fresh ass? You want to take a look? Only if you promised that we could come back. Maybe. Maybe. A handshake of a maybe is still a pretty solid handshake. Would you agree? I'm going to hold you two.

The maybe. So I don't think NBA young boy made any harm. He did say when they first came back in, like, I'm not the best with words. And I was like, that's ironic. MBA young boy, not the best with words. Like, your music goes so crazy, though. Like, how? Like, okay.

But, you know, interview artist. An artist in an interview is different than an artist in a studio making music in a setting that is his own that he can own. I get it. But they got into some things. So they talked about this whole Michael Jackson, NBA Young Boy, comparison because one of the things that gets thrown on NBA young boy is that he is the Michael Jackson of his generation because of how crazy his fans go for him like his level of celebrity is insane. I thought his answer was actually very mature. Like he don't say too many words,

but I thought these words made a lot of sense of sick of listen. I don't know nothing about Michael Jackson though. Yo, YB, you got a song called Dirty Ianna sampling Dirty Diana. No, but I don't understand the story. I don't love you. Okay. I have a power. Oh, because he wasn't, like, really alive at his peak when, like, women was, like,

passing out. Yeah, I feel like something. Yeah, I feel like something should be over-exaggerated sometime, so you got to think about it. They over-exaggerate by me sometimes. But how, though? Like, how, like, that statement, like. That you know Michael Jackson. That's, like, going too.

Well, first of all, NBA young boy, very on point. I mean, I don't know what it was like when Michael Jackson was alive. I wasn't. I mean, that's not true. I was alive and I was aware of things when Michael Jackson was alive, but I was so young. I wasn't like the age I am now sitting in the scene I'm sitting in now. When did Michael Jackson die?

Let's look this up. Yeah, so Michael Jackson died in 2009. So in 2009, I was in high school. I graduated from high school in 2010. He died June 25th, 2009, right? So, yes, I was in high school. That was my. I was my junior year of high school.

So it's like, of course, you know Michael Jackson, you understand the celebrity of Michael Jackson. But I was, it wasn't like I was, like, attending Michael Jackson concerts or, like, paying enough attention to, like, really have felt the celebrity of Michael Jackson. So I think an NBA young boy is younger than me. NBA young boy, he has to be around Jordan Rose's age because Jordan Rose,

Drin and Rose made a like a kind of like a comment about them being around the same age yes NBA young boy is 26 years old okay so if I'm 34 and be a young boy is 26 years old yeah he if I am telling y'all I've got a chance to like see it from the TV screen and I don't even really fully understand the impact of Michael Jackson not that I don't understand it but I just

you know how like you have to see some things up close and personal to really like oh shoot I didn't get a chance to do that. So if I haven't gotten a chance to do that, NVA young boy, he wasn't even, like, yo, he's 26 years old. I think a lot of people in his position could have used a question like that

and a moment like that to lean into the hype because he knew it was going to go viral. I mean, it's NVA young boy. It's going to go viral regardless, but he could use that to lean into the height, but he didn't. He answered it in a way that was like, smart.

And I think that people, talk about NBA young boy as if he's this like, because, I mean, there's the cases and the charges and the baby mamas and the drugs and like, there's a lot of things that be going on over there allegedly, right? But I think people have conversations about NBA young boy as if he's like so unaware of like what's happening outside of his bubble. And I think sometimes he does lean into that

and we're going to get into a moment where he did that during this interview. But he's very well aware of, culturally his influence, his touch on his people and his fans, and just kind of where he sits in the hierarchy of like the greats, because people put him literally next to Michael Jackson, which a lot of people take it to it. Now let's, okay, so I told you guys that there was a moment in this complex interview with NBA young boy in Jordan Rose where NBA young boy plays very like, yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.

So Jordan Rose brings up the name of the tour, Massa, Make America Slym again. Obviously, it's a play on Trump's MAGA, Make America Great Again. Now, this NBA Young Boy tour was a huge success. It sold over 500,000 tickets. It grossed over $75 million across 42 to 45 sold out arena dates, each date sold out, making it one of the highest grossing rap tours within reports indicating roughly around. $1.5 million per show. Okay?

At a time where people are having issues, selling tickets, and getting people into seats, this man sold out 42 to 45 arenas, $1.5 million a show. The music is streaming crazy. His numbers go crazy. In this interview, he said he still owns his masters. He knows a little something. But he acted like he didn't, though, when it came to Trump. Let's take a listen.

that message make America slum again? Like, what does that title mean to you? And then, um, follow whatever Trump applying. Follow whatever Trump applying. Yeah. What, in what way, like? In every way. Well, you know, Trump pardoned you, got you off house arrest.

I don't know anything about that. What you mean? Did you ever speak to him about, like, did you ever have a... No, I'm about that. Right. Okay. But the album's name Make America Slime Again, the tour is named Make America Slum again.

It was, the name was like, it's just to enforce whatever Trump applying. Have you ever met Trump? Why do you keep thinking? Because you got me thinking right now why I'd be like. Okay. So this is obviously him playing a little stupid. I can't confirm whether he's met Trump or not.

I did reach out to the White House to see if that conversation happened because I don't know where else I'll get it. I'm going to try and work it out another way as well too. But in 2024, MBA Young Boy was sentenced by a federal judge in Utah after he admitted to possessing weapons despite the fact that he was a convicted felon. So he reached this agreement that he would get that basically took care of his state charges. So they resolved the state charges against them. And then it settled two sets of federal charges against him. One that carried a 23-month sentence. And then the other ordered five years of probation in a $200,000 fine.

And he was given a pardon on these charges, on these gun charges, and was released and able to go home. The pardon even made it where his probation terms, including like drug testing and all of that, were out of here. Now, at the time, he released a statement, thanking Trump. he says, I want to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and giving me the opportunity to keep building as a man, as a father, and as an artist. But there has been no confirmation of, like, the meeting or anything like that since this time.

I get it. President Trump gave NBA young boy another shot at not sitting behind bars, career, family, all the things, right? All the things. All the things. I get it. So I'm not knocking him for his answer. Let me back that up. I'm not knocking him for acknowledging, well, he didn't even acknowledge it.

I'm not knocking him for obviously being grateful for Trump for doing that, which is, in my opinion, whatever, right? Politically, I don't know enough. We haven't heard enough, you know, politically to understand how NBA young boy would have arrived at being a Trump supporter if he had not gotten a pardon. not enough in recent not enough consistently um i think with some i mean shoot niki mena the same way i would have never thought that niki vina d end up a trump supporter it makes sense with nba young boy though because this man was literally parted he was about to go to jail it was about to be behind bars it was about to be you know two years of sitting down solid and in another term sitting down at home right um so i understand that i just wish that he wasn't pushing

a whole mega regime thing. Because obviously NBA Young Boy is very influential and very impactful. He is like the leader of you, one of the leaders of youth culture. If not, I'm saying, NBA Young Boy is the leader of youth culture at this point. Youth culture is basically

like the pushaistees, the youngans. Like the people, look, I'm 34 years old. I got to, it's not me anymore. But like the 31 and under, like the, I would say, I mean, the kids love NBA young boy. Y'all remember seeing those tour videos and hearing the crowd and just seeing how crazy they were going.

That man say jump, they say how high. So I think politically, and again, I haven't heard him speak much on politics to say this indefinitely, but I don't know if he understands where he's leading the people. Especially, like, you know, I know that there are some music artists who, although, you know, come from underserved communities and blah, blah, all that stuff that, you know, that goes along with it, still feel like or felt like President Trump was the answer. But if you look at things that have happened more recently, I don't understand why anyone would think that or push that.

And I just don't know if NBA young boy, as smart as he is, I don't know if he understands how his blind loyalty ends people up longer term. And honestly, I mean, maybe he does. Maybe I'm completely wrong. maybe we'll get that in another interview but I would rather hear that like okay like why push whatever Trump is pushing why yes he pardoned you I totally understand that

but like I mean Fetty Wap was recently released and he wasn't pardoned but the first step act which you know got through under the Trump administration is the reason why he was able to come home but he's not out here

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All right, now listen, obviously at this point, if y'all can tell I am a converted NBA young boyfriend. I never was against NBA young boy. I've always liked his music. I just think I wasn't really in tune with like, only thing I knew about him was the things that hit the headlines. And y'all know on my end of it, sometimes that's just the, that's the cattyness of it all. That's the baby mama drama. That's the, you know, the arrest, the running from the police, the, all of that stuff. But his tour and watching each tour stop in the crowd, I didn't go to the tour, but just I wanted to go. That's how much watching the tour influenced me. I wanted to go to the tour just experienced the energy of it in real life, but didn't end up making it.

But he says that he's going to go back on tour again. He's going to, his plans are to take it international, hopefully. I stand in the fact that he's been able to do all this with feeling blackballed by the industry, with also not having like a lot of like mainstream support. Like he's not played all over the radio. He's not sitting down for a bunch of interviews. A lot of the times when the outlets are talking about him, it is the drama, but people love his music. It goes crazy.

I'm all against people going against the. regime. I don't support the maga stuff, but I mean, I support get pay, young man, get paid. You know what I'm saying? So yeah. But shout out to Complex for this interview. This was my breakdown of it. You guys want more episodes like this. Let me know. I enjoy talking through interviews with you guys because I think we really get a chance to dissect not only the conversation that is being talked about and like the headline of it all, but the actual real conversation, like the, how was this impacting us? What does this really mean?

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