Hi everyone. Welcome to Mini Scroll, the
daily Internet culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories
from social media, the creator economy and the digital space
every Monday through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
You guys, I just recorded this entire episode and I did not
have the microphones plugged in to the camera so there was no
sound. So love that for me.
Thankfully these episodes are short and sweet, otherwise I'd
be spiraling. So if you guys watch on YouTube,
you might be able to tell that there is like a new vibe going
on. Here we are in a new studio.
I mentioned last week that I was getting a studio space.
So basically I've been trying to figure out how we can get a
dedicated office. I still wanted to stay at our Co
working space in Sydney, but they have like floating
memberships which is what we were on for years and years and
then they also have dedicated offices.
So since January I've been trying to get a dedicated office
and I found out last Monday that we were able to get one and I
was like all right, I just want to get this over with.
I want to move everything in. I want to start doing this.
I basically started paying for it from May 1st, so I was like,
OK, I want to get this done. So Sean and myself and my
brother spent the whole weekend putting this space together so
we have a couple desks in here. It's like it's a small room, but
it's like couple desks for my team and this little podcast
studio. It is nowhere near done, so bear
with me and the lighting. I'm still figuring all of this
out. It's been a journey, but I am
excited and we like, soundproofed the whole thing.
So you can probably see along this wall a little bit.
There's like the soundproof boxes and stuff, but yes, it's
it's cool and I hope that it really, like, elevates the
vibes. But for now, bear with me as
we're still kind of figuring it out.
All right, let's get in to the stories for today.
I just have two quick stories for you guys.
So the first is I wanted to recap all of the drama that
happened this weekend between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
So over the past few months, Kendrick Lamar and Drake have
been dropping diss tracks on each other.
But things really escalated over the weekend when Kendrick
released 4 back-to-back tracks. Basically.
So Kendrick Lamar and Drake first collaborated in 2011 on
Drake's Take Care album. In 2012, Kendrick opened on
Drake's Club Paradise tour, and that same year they also
collaborated on Fucking Problems and Poetic Justice, which would
mark the last time that the pair would collaborate.
In 2013, Kendrick and Drake started releasing diss tracks on
each other and they've been quote UN quote feuding ever
since. OK, so there has been a lot of
back and forth over the years, but the most recent drama.
On April 19th, Drake released Push Ups, which is a diss track
on Kendrick mocking his small stature, specifically his feet.
Days later on April 24th, he released a second diss track on
Kendrick via Instagram called TaylorMade Freestyle where he
basically taunted Kendrick for not responding to his April 19th
track. On April 30th, Kendrick
responded to Drake with a 6 minute track called Euphoria,
Billboard writes quote. The six minute diatribe was
scathing, showcasing a bloodthirsty Lamar, calling out
Drake for using the N word, questioning his fashion sense,
his hip hop merits, and more. Now this weekend Kendrick
continued to release diss tracks, so he released one on
May 3rd called 616 in LA claiming Drake has someone in
his camp who is leaking information.
Hours later, Drake responded with a track called Family
Matters, where he accused Kendrick of being unfaithful to
his fiance. On May 4th, Kendrick responded
with Meet the Grams and it's in this track Meet the Grams where
Kendrick accused Drake of being a deadbeat father and having a
second daughter, he said. Quote or wrapped quote.
You lied about your son. You lied about your daughter,
Huh? You lied about them.
Other kids. That's out there hoping that you
come. So people really believed this,
and I feel like they might still believe it because A, Kendrick
already called Drake out for having someone in his camp who
leaks information. And B, as we know, Drake did
keep his son hidden for quite a while, but Drake responded to
this accusation on Instagram Stories that same day writing.
Nah, hold on, can someone find my hidden daughter please?
And sent her to me. These guys are in shambles.
But the back and forth has ended, at least for now, when
Kendrick released a fourth diss track on May 4th called Not Like
Us, accusing Drake and his team of being sex offenders.
Quite an accusation. So this has just been viral
everywhere. This is absolutely not our
normal content for infinite scroll, mini scroll, but this is
viral everywhere. And if you guys want a very
funny take on it, go watch Bila Delgado's TikTok.
They basically make like a diss track on Drake.
It's very clear they are on Kendrick's side, but it is
absolutely hilarious. Go watch it.
All right. And the last one that I have for
you guys is another personality that we have actually never
talked about on this podcast but is in very much in the
influencer world. So Harry Josie has addressed the
romance rumors between himself and Riley Arnold on his new
podcast, So too Hot to Handle * Harry Josie has finally
addressed his rumored relationship with Dancing With
the Stars partner Riley Arnold and people are not happy with
this. So Harry was paired up with
Riley during Dancing With the Stars season 32, and there was
so much speculation that the two were more than Just Dance
partners, basically. And they really leaned into
this. They would do interviews
together where they were like flirting and really coy about
what was going on. They made all these tik toks
together. They spoke so highly of each
other, they basically LED fans to believe that they were
something. But now Harry is setting the
record straight and it has people really pissed off.
So he just launched his new podcast called Boyfriend
Material where he teased that he would address Riley in the first
episode. In the episode, Harry called
Riley a cute girl but said that they were never a thing.
Quote. I'm sorry if this breaks some
hearts, but I'm here to confirm once and for all.
Riley and I have never been in any type of relationship.
We never leaned into it. We never were putting on an act
or anything like that. It was just organic.
What you saw is kind of how it was.
That was just amazing love and amazing friendship and just an
amazing bond that we had together Now in this episode.
Harry said that he was the one who turned Riley down.
And he said he made it clear to her that he is not the right guy
for her and that he set boundaries with her from the
start and that he wanted to like protect her from all of the
drama in his life. And he knew that if they started
dating that, you know, it would hurt her personal brand because
of what his personal brand is and that she's 18, he's 26.
Like, she shouldn't be wasting her time with someone who's
older like that, which I do agree with that.
But he basically made it out to be like she wanted to be with
him And he was this like, you know, knight in shining armor,
this really great guy that was like, no, I'm going to sacrifice
what I want for you for your greater good.
However, he then dropped a major bomb saying that he had a secret
girlfriend while they were filming Dancing with the Stars
and that all the news articles and the speculation about him
and Riley that that really, like, hurt his relationship.
So the reception to that has been quite bad.
Fans have flooded the comment section of his video on YouTube
with criticism, saying that Harry used Riley to promote his
new era of his career, this new podcast, this new project, and
then basically dropped her, one person wrote.
I can't believe he let me believe he was a changed man and
a good man. All to use Riley for views until
his next project came and then disrespected her.
You'll never deserve someone as beautiful and kind and sincere
as Riley. I hope she's OK, someone else
wrote. I'm afraid Riley got used for
views and promoting this podcast.
I'm so sorry Riley. You deserve better.
And someone else wrote the way he literally used Riley as
clickbait for this episode only to totally disrespect her.
Annoying. Hopefully your secret
relationship knows better than to take you back.
Won't be listening to this podcast again.
So this anger was furthered when fans noticed that leading up to
the podcast drop, Harry and Riley unfollowed each other.
So underneath a TikTok promotional video where it was
like clickbait. Like I said, he commented back
to someone. So somebody reportedly asked if
the podcast was the reason that he and Riley unfollowed each
other and he reportedly wrote. And when I say reportedly, I
mean I have not been able to verify this because it seems
like he deleted the comments. So take this with a grain of
salt, but he reportedly wrote she was liking shady comments
about me when we had discussed everything about the podcast
before I filmed it and what was going to be in it.
I have the camera footage from my living room to prove it.
Also, they get back with an X video is in collaboration with a
network to start a marketing rollout strategy which she was
also aware of. So he is confirming that a lot
of this promotional stuff for the podcast was clickbait.
Intentional clickbait because it was part of a marketing roll out
strategy for his podcast, which does make sense of course, but
he is saying Riley was aware of all of this and I think fans are
just really defensive of this because Riley is so young, this
is her first kind of brush with fame and Harry, Jesse has a very
bad reputation like as being a fuck boy but also just kind of
being like a bit shady. So I think people are feeling
protective of her because it does seem like he's been using
her image and likeness kind of to his advantage and it's
possible that she did not realize the extent of that while
it was happening. Anyways, guys, hopefully this
recorded. I'm going to check.
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