Way Up With The Legendary LL Cool J + Tell Us A Secret

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now I'm supporting real, Soama tune in.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
And day will.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
You are now angel what I call her yeey.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Happy in Monday.

Speaker 5 (00:17):
Yes, it's a case of the Mondays, but it's a
positive case. I'm angela yee and Mano is in the
building a time one more time?

Speaker 6 (00:26):
No, may no, get my volume together, man may no,
man Monday?

Speaker 7 (00:30):
What's happening?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
What a weekend? First of all, you in here wearing
your same clothes and last night.

Speaker 6 (00:34):
This is one of those days when yesterday and today
blended together.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
It's not even a morning show. We come. I mean
it starts in the morning, babe.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Man.

Speaker 7 (00:42):
I live a rough life.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Sometimes if I don't get to sleep by four, I
just say forget it.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
I'm like, come on.

Speaker 7 (00:49):
Listen, because I gotta come from Jersey. So I get up.

Speaker 6 (00:52):
I get up now. I gotta get up by like seven,
seven thirty.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Okay, that's the time I get up just to be.

Speaker 7 (00:58):
Here on time.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
So I if I haven't really really been asleep by
about four.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Just stay up.

Speaker 7 (01:05):
Just stay up for a little while.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Hey, way up, I want to see that.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
Before we started the show, I was sitting in here
Romino and I was playing him some Donna Summer's music,
because you know there's a Dinna Summer documentary.

Speaker 6 (01:18):
I didn't know she did all those songs though.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, I was going through it.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
I was like, listen, I know a lot about music
because my parents they really collected like a lot of
vinyl when I was going up, so I used to
listen to everything. But there's a documentary, Love to Love
You Donna Summer, and it talks about her whole story.
And I also had read I was telling you David
Geffen's biography. It's called The Operator, and in that book
they talk about how he signed Donna Summer thinking that

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she was going to be and he paid a lot
of money to get her off her label Casablanca, and
paid all this money and then she became a born
again Christian and did a guy and she did a
rock album and he was tight because I guess he
thought he was going to get a good return.

Speaker 7 (01:56):
On his head. And then she came back.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
And then she came back. Man, we got to watch it.
I think we should have visit all.

Speaker 7 (02:01):
What is it on?

Speaker 5 (02:02):
I think it's on HBO. I cannot I'm really it's
on HBO. So we're gonna watch that love to love you,
Donna Summer. I love a good documentary.

Speaker 7 (02:10):
Love documentary? Is it out?

Speaker 6 (02:12):
Now?

Speaker 4 (02:12):
It's out? Now? You know I had to go on
Teddy Pendergrass. You ever watch his watch that? That was
good to watch that. It was good because he had
recordings of himself telling his own story.

Speaker 7 (02:20):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes it was sad though.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Okay, all right, well let's get this show started with
some positivity. There's a lot of action going on in
this building, is it. It's a lot of action, but
we'll get into it. Eight hundred two nine fifty one fifty.
But let's do some positive things. Let's shine a light
on them, all right. That's where we do something positive.
You shine a light and shout out somebody who is
doing something amazing and you want to show some love.

(02:44):
That's how we like to start off the week, the day,
all the time, just showing some love. Eight hundred two
nine fifty one fifty. It's way up with Angela. You
shine a light on them.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm sh turn your lights.

Speaker 8 (02:55):
On, y'all, spreading love to those who are doing greatness,
light on.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Shining light on.

Speaker 8 (03:02):
It's time to shine a light on them.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yes, it is way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela
Yee and new Mano, new Mano is here and we.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
Are shining a light eight hundred fifty one fifty and
today I want to shine a light. I want to
shine a light on our New York Liberty, New York Liberty. Yes,
you got to come to a w NBA.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
I feel like I went to one, Okay, but I
feel like I was. I was so distracted by being
in a I don't think I was. I don't think
I sat on the floor though.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
I get you, But shout out to our New York Liberty,
by the way, who won yesterday. They were playing against
the Indiana Fever. We won ninety seventy three and we
got some great players on the squad. So Brianna Stewart,
Sabrina your new school, y'all got to come and watch
some of these games. When I tell you it was
packed and there, I'm gonna show you a video, but

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it was absolutely packed in there.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
It was their first.

Speaker 7 (03:55):
Home game, packed like nets pack.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, it really was, like all this seats on the
floor were taken.

Speaker 7 (04:01):
Nice.

Speaker 9 (04:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
So Clara who was there, she's one of the owners,
so she was there too, And it's just a great experience.
And I feel like a lot of people are supporting
women's basketball right now. It's a good time for us,
said us, like I play, you do. I did play
basketball when.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
I was young?

Speaker 7 (04:19):
What position?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
I was?

Speaker 4 (04:20):
A point guard? I definitely would tear you up. May No,
I already could tell.

Speaker 7 (04:24):
You right yeah, you's so cap? Why are you so cap?
On Monday?

Speaker 4 (04:28):
I was?

Speaker 7 (04:29):
And you think you could beat me in basketball?

Speaker 4 (04:31):
I can tell your right now, right now, right now,
let's go. I have a core we can play on.
Let's go.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
Oh my god, this is so bad to god?

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah, okay, eight ninety two, nine, two fifty one fifty justin.
Who do you want to shine a light on?

Speaker 10 (04:45):
Yes, I want to shine a light on my wife, Cecilia.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Man.

Speaker 11 (04:48):
I just want to give her flowers and her respect
that she deserves.

Speaker 10 (04:51):
She's a mobile groomer here in Odessa, Texas, and she's
been going two years strong.

Speaker 11 (04:56):
So I'm very proud of her, and I just want
to give her her flowers.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
So tell you you said she's a mobile wet dog groomer.
That's dope. You guys have.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
Dogs too, Yes, we do.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
We have a pit bull and two schnauzers, so we
can move up to grooming and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
So that's a great business because dogs are like people's
kids for real.

Speaker 10 (05:17):
Oh yeah, yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 7 (05:19):
Thank you guys. Thank you guys for having me this morning.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Listen to you guys every morning.

Speaker 12 (05:23):
And uh, good day, Thank you to you, Cecilia, thank you, peace.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
I gotta shut dug out. He's hey, Erica, what's good?

Speaker 10 (05:37):
Hey? How are you going good?

Speaker 12 (05:39):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I am?

Speaker 12 (05:41):
Good morning?

Speaker 4 (05:42):
So you want to shine a light on.

Speaker 10 (05:44):
I want to shout a light on him Jackson. She
is the founder of a nonprofit organization called Doing Good
in the Hood.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Doing Good in the Hood like that?

Speaker 7 (05:55):
I like that?

Speaker 4 (05:56):
What is that the hood do?

Speaker 7 (05:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (05:59):
Like every month, almost single handily, Kim goes to underserved
community in South Florida in Atlanta and she gives out
free items toiletries, gently use clothes, and shoes and pretty
much almost every month and around about way, you're doing
it on her own on Kim.

Speaker 11 (06:22):
Okay, Yeah, it's pretty dope.

Speaker 7 (06:24):
I like that Doing Good Hood.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
That's right, Well, thank you for calling.

Speaker 10 (06:30):
You're welcome, thank you all right, Well that.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Was shining a light on him eight hun nine fifty fifty.
In case you couldn't get through, you can always leave
a message and play it during last word when we
come back, we have your yee t and let's talk about.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Kim Kardashian and her single mother struggles. Y'all do not
have no sympathy. Let's see what you think is way up?

Speaker 8 (06:48):
They say in the rooms from industry shade to all
the gossip out.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Angela's feeling that, yes, it is way up with Angela. Yee,
I'm Angela and my guy Mana is here. He loves
his job. Yeah, I'm happy that you enjoy yourself that job.
All right, Well, you're not gonna love this story. Gabrielle
Union has been spotted out and it was rumors that she, Oh,

(07:14):
not Gabrielle, You're sorry.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Meghan Good, I'm excited.

Speaker 7 (07:17):
I don't have no feelings about that. Wait, why do
you think that I have?

Speaker 5 (07:21):
But Meghan Good was spotted hold the hands at Lax
with Jonathan Major, so it looks like they are a couple.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
They were waiting for the private jet and they were
leaning in close.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
Now there were rumors that the two of them were dating,
and then people were saying well maybe they're just you know,
it's true.

Speaker 7 (07:36):
It's true.

Speaker 12 (07:38):
It is true.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, it's true. So it looks like Meghan Good has
found someone now great for her?

Speaker 7 (07:45):
What all right?

Speaker 5 (07:47):
No, you had a little thing for Megan Good though
for a hot second allegedly. Yeah, all right, so shout
out to them. It looks like it's it's really happening,
all right. Kim Kardashian, she was on on purpose with
Jay Shetty and he was asking her about having kids,
and she asked him, you know, do you have any kids?
She was like, cuz this is and he doesn't yet.

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But that's why he was asking her a lot of
questions about parenthood. And here's what she had to say
about parenting.

Speaker 13 (08:12):
I'd say parenting is the thing that has taught me
the most about myself. It has been the most challenging thing.
There are nights I cry myself to sleep, like what
just happened? You know, with all the moods and the personalities,
and there's no one there like it's me to play
good cop and bad cop. There is nothing that can

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prepare you. Anyone that says, oh, we're waiting to have
x amount of money in the bank. Oh, we're waiting
to have a home before we have kids. Oh, I'm
waiting for this job to come in before we have kids.
You are never prepared.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Now.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
I saw these headlines going around saying that Kim Kardashian
talked about crying herself to sleep being a single parent,
and a lot of.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
People were upset about that. But I didn't feel like
that's what this was.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
You know, what it is is people will associate being
a single parent with being a single struggling.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
Parent with no help at all.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Right, she has a lot of help, and we understand
that she has a lot of help, but.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
That's not to say that and for her that she
doesn't have difficulties or times when she cries herself, Right, it.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
Could be for various reasons, just because she feels like,
you know, she's single technically.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Not with the husband, right, and she has four children.
And I'm sure no matter what, like she said, parenting
is really hard. That's the only way she can describe
it as the most rewarding job in the world. But
you just can't prepare.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
But the world is not like that. The world don't
want to hit from her.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
But and that's hard because you want to share things
about yourself and your life and be open and honest.
But then people attack you because she probably really does
and she's probably people like that.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
But then it's also like, well.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
What Aboutonaire, I'm struggling for real?

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Oh gosh, all right, shouldn't see.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
I is giving away ten MacBooks, plus she's also paying
off two tuitions, and that's for her Yang Day.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
She does that every year on Mate twentieth.

Speaker 14 (10:00):
Here's what you had to say, Happy Young Day to
my sharings. I love you guys so much, and you know,
on these days every year, I give back to you
guys for giving me all the love and the support
that you give. This year, I'm paying off to students
college tuitions as well as I'm giving away ten map pros.
You can shake my snap for specific instructions today. Make
sure the extreme Hincy're.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
Like no other.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
I love that she's doing it. Having a laptop is
like you know, you're yes when you're in school. It
is it's a luxury, you know what I'm saying. It
is a necessity, but it's also a luxury. And a
MacBook Pro. I mean I remember being in college. I
didn't have a laptop. I actually had to go to
the computer center all the time.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah to Actually I was in college, but maybe it
wasn't a big deal.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
But I'm just saying it is a nice luxury to
be able to have your own laptop where you can.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Just be in your room or go wherever.

Speaker 7 (10:56):
What is a what is it?

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Definitely had no book I had. I forget what type. Yeah,
it wasn't no MacBook at all. Period.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
So all right, and that is your Yet when we
come back, we have about last night. Now it's still
last night for Mayne. He got his glasses on in
here the same close and last night. He don't think though.
All right, it's the way up at Angela yee.

Speaker 8 (11:21):
So about last night last night I went down.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yes, it is way up with Angela yee. I'm Angela Yee.
And my guy Mano is here in my BRF.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
How come my volume is always low?

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah? Turn out, Yeah, here we go, new man out,
let's go now, man, you're still wearing your clothes. And
yesterday last night turned into today? So what did you
do yesterday?

Speaker 6 (11:46):
Shout out to everybody that had everything to do with
the Biggie event. It was Biggie's birthday, Happy birthday, Big
you know how we feel about Big Best stopped Brooklyn.
They had a dope event over at Hudson Yards at
the Edge. It was really nice.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Wow. So what was it like. It's a celebration of
his life.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
Yeah, celebration and then you know it's the fiftieth year
of hip hop. Yes, so it was a lot going
on in the city. And yeah, it was just like
a big party, a celebration of his life.

Speaker 7 (12:15):
What he meant.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
There was some speeches given, shout out to wobnds.

Speaker 7 (12:19):
He was here.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
Do you remember your first time meeting Biggie? You never
met I, so I didn't really meet him and him
it was just like a brief hello. But there used
to be this roller skating rink in Jersey called the Ring,
and I was there. He was there when I he
was just happened to be standing right by me, and
I was like, oh, And it was kind of early on.
And I remember one time because Party and BS that

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was one of the first big songs.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
Remember he was on the soundtrack Who's the Man? Who
was the Man? Who's the Man's soundtrack?

Speaker 5 (12:50):
So I was at Jones Beach and Biggie was there
performing and you know the part where the fight breaks
out in the song and then every people think it's
a real fight.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
But it was super early on.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
It was before for that was the only song he
had at that time, and he was at Jones Beach
performing and the fight broke out part happened and everybody
started running fight.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yeah, yeah, did you?

Speaker 7 (13:09):
Did you not introduce yourself to.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
No, I'm not really you know, I was Angelie, I'm
gonna be so huge, and I didn't know.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
What I was going, no idea what I was gonna
end up doing. But yeah, so you know, I think
that's somebody that I'm sure we both would have loved
to have been able to be like Yeah, indeed, I mean,
and you know, he inspired so many artists. He inspired me.
You know, he was the first artist that made me.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
Feel like, man, I could do this right, that's dope.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
And he had a double album with no skips, no skips,
with no skips. That's not an easy thing to do,
all right. So that is your about last night into today.
I was actually at a wedding over the weekend. Shout
out to my cousin Julie. Julie and Kyle that's her husband,
right and so she got married at a farm.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
Congratulations cause yes it was upstate New York.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
But my dad, oh my gosh, talk about embarrassing to
get prepared anytime I know my dad is going to
be around, that's a good things in front of people.
Dad is a movie so he doesn't really drink.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
And it was open bar.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
So there's two things about my dad from yesterday from Saturday.
He doesn't drink, but he also is very cheap. So
if there's an open bar and the drinks are free,
he's going for it. And he was getting all different
kinds of escaping. First, yeah, he cut the line because
I was like, the line was kind of long to
get drinks. And then he got up after me, and
then I see him walk back with a drink. I'm like,

(14:28):
how did you get a drink so fast? And he's like,
I cut the line and I'm like all right, He's like,
go tell them who you are, Go.

Speaker 7 (14:34):
Cut the lines.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
I'm like, it's a wedding. I'm not cutting the line
at a wedding. That's so rude.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
And yes, and so he had a bear, then he
had some other He had an old fashion you didn't
even know what it was then he had a mule.
He was drinking all different kinds of things. He was
taking red wine and then he was like, I'm feeling
a little woozy.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Yeah, take it easy. But yeah.

Speaker 11 (14:55):
So that was my.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Weekend. I did that.

Speaker 5 (14:59):
And then my my god daughter graduating from college. Yes, kaya,
she went to Saint John's so yeah, she sent me
a night. I went to take her to the grill
of course, okay in Brooklyn. Listen, Yeah, with my girl Melissa.
So I took I took her to the grill, and
I went to the New York. I had a very

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active weekend. And I have an Airbnb upstate New York
and the Catskills, so I was there as well. I'm
gonna be doing something special with Airbnb that I'm excited for.

Speaker 7 (15:29):
I had.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
I feel like I worked a lot this weekend, so
I'm ready for a break.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
Is fun.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah, it is. I enjoy it. So that is you're
about last night. Now you know what's about to happen.

Speaker 7 (15:40):
Hey, listened.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Not only is it a Monday man ovation.

Speaker 6 (15:45):
Everybody. I need everybody to tap in, call up, get
your best sequence together. Please call in. And I'm not
talking about now, I'm talking about right now.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
Tell us a secret from last night. Man no, be anonymous,
be anonymous.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yeah, I'm a call in one day, all right, well
fifty one fifty and you guys call us up. Tell
us a secret again. It's no judgment in our end,
not even from Mano. He has some nerve judgment.

Speaker 12 (16:14):
I didn't.

Speaker 7 (16:14):
I didn't never sign that contract.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Mano, by the way, showed me some footage of him
playing basketball.

Speaker 6 (16:20):
When you tell your listen, hold on, we're not gonna
do this because it's a lose lose.

Speaker 7 (16:26):
I can't beat you. Because if I beat you and
they say, oh come on, man Angela, you can't beat you.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
I had a nerve tou say, he's gonna dunk on
me like stop A hundred two nine two fifty one
fifty tell us a secrets.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
This is a judgment free zone. Tell us a secret.

Speaker 15 (16:43):
Oh, tell us a secret. It is way up at
Angela yee. I'm Angela yee, and Mano is here. Why winna,
because it's time for tell us a secret. That's when
people get to call in an anonymous leave.

Speaker 7 (16:56):
To tell us all their business.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
See there you go, there you go, Mano judging.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
Let's go all right, so again eight hundred two nine
fifty one fifty isn't that. But y'all have been telling
us some amazing secrets, by the way, amazing.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
What's been your favorite so far? Mano? You always like
the ones where people are legends.

Speaker 7 (17:14):
Yeah, I like those. You know, some some guys out
there really gonna get schools named after them.

Speaker 6 (17:21):
Statues, statues erected, you know, in their name, likeness, this,
this nice one is out there, and then.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
Someone's that make you so mad? Okay, it's still a code.

Speaker 7 (17:33):
I was still was bothered by that forty two thousand
that was.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Stole from He's still you know, the exact nub.

Speaker 6 (17:38):
From the cousin, and I was just like, you ain't
even give it back though.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
Right invested in some other things, and you was gonna
what the funniest thing is when people do mess up things,
they look.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
To Mano like he's gonna agree.

Speaker 7 (17:48):
They feel like I'm great.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
But let's see how that is today. Eight hundred two
nine fifty one fifty. Hello, Anonymous color, how are you.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Now?

Speaker 5 (17:58):
Let's just act like Mano's not here because I don't
want him to judge. But what is your tell us
a secret?

Speaker 12 (18:04):
Okay? So I moved to our different city to be
with my boyfriend, and he cheated on me and had
a baby. But I got my lick back before he did.
I had cheated on him and had a baby and
had abortion and he didn't know.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh, you didn't have a bit you had, so you
had an abortion. You got pregnant.

Speaker 12 (18:21):
Yeah, I was pregnant when we got together.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
He don't know that.

Speaker 6 (18:25):
Wow, So you was pregnant when you first met him.

Speaker 12 (18:28):
Well, yeah, when we got together and he didn't know.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
So you was sleeping with somebody else unprotected.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah, okay, and you stayed with him.

Speaker 12 (18:37):
Yeah, we was together for a year, but he had
a baby on me, so we broke up. But I
wasn't mad because I already had the baby on him.

Speaker 7 (18:45):
But you didn't have the baby him on him.

Speaker 12 (18:48):
You had abortion, but I got pregnant on him.

Speaker 7 (18:50):
So you let the other So you basically let another man.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yes, she did, and he basically did it to another woman.

Speaker 6 (18:56):
Right, but you you still dealing with the other man
because you didn't stop after the pregnancy.

Speaker 12 (19:02):
No, but we broke up and I ain't dealing one.

Speaker 7 (19:05):
So you had a man and a boyfriend.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yep, Oh, what that relationship was doomed. Well, thank you
for sharing. There's no judgment.

Speaker 7 (19:17):
We judge you are a demon? What demon? We judging?

Speaker 9 (19:24):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (19:26):
Ca okay, hand out a miss color?

Speaker 12 (19:31):
How are you day?

Speaker 7 (19:33):
Morning time on y'all. You may know what's up?

Speaker 4 (19:36):
Bro what's your secret?

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (19:38):
It ain't even gonna lie.

Speaker 16 (19:39):
Man.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
You know the government been giving out that money over
the past couple of years.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
I went a bopped me a ppp on it. Man,
I got a brood.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Do you have a real business or it's a little shaky, ain't.

Speaker 12 (19:53):
It ain't even gonna kept. I created me one of
the I got.

Speaker 10 (19:56):
I got an E I in.

Speaker 12 (19:57):
But man, I ain't doing that type of business.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
But I'm about to.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
I'm about to come on to sleep.

Speaker 12 (20:02):
Let they gave you, hey, man, they gave me one
point five? Hey what yeah, open the all.

Speaker 7 (20:09):
Out, all out now.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
I would be remiss, and I tell you be careful
because they're cracking down on people.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
So yeah, at one point five, but.

Speaker 12 (20:18):
Thank you for sharing all y'all. He'll do you too.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
For now.

Speaker 5 (20:23):
At one point five, he just got an e I
N that's it, Hey, anonymous, Cala, how are you good?

Speaker 16 (20:32):
How are you good?

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Good with Mayo, you want to tell us a secret?

Speaker 7 (20:36):
I do.

Speaker 17 (20:37):
I have new Mano beat because when we watched the
movie theater, my four boys ran under the banister to
the video game. Now at the video games, they're in there,
so we would go up to the counter and say two.
So my four kids would get in for free.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
But oh wow, so ce Mano always buys his tea.
You sait a movie theater as a child, right, so
what her four kids got in free? They would run
under and play video nice? Wait, what about so there's
no reserve seating where you go, they could just sit wherever.

Speaker 17 (21:10):
Yeah, this is years ago and my kids are in
their late twenties, thirty.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah, listen, I used to sneak from one. I would
pay for one ticket and go see like three movies.
That's about right, Angela. He still brings food.

Speaker 17 (21:23):
Food is allowed, always bring around food.

Speaker 6 (21:28):
I'm saying, she brings heroes and man, are you snitching?

Speaker 4 (21:32):
No, I'm saying, like, this is what you can.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
Do them, just letting letting people know that it's not
it's not it's not a bad thing. Do your thing
get over all?

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Right, Well, look she got away with it. She's good,
had a little extra money in her pocket.

Speaker 17 (21:46):
That's right, we did, We did so many times.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
All right, you'll probably get away with it.

Speaker 7 (21:52):
Try it again, no.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Big, Now they're not running under the thing down.

Speaker 10 (22:00):
So thank you, oh thank you.

Speaker 17 (22:03):
I love you so much. I listen to you every morning.

Speaker 12 (22:05):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
I love you too.

Speaker 12 (22:07):
Oh take care, take care?

Speaker 7 (22:09):
Why do you say well, I love you? Why do
you put that voice on I love you?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Boys?

Speaker 7 (22:15):
It's I love you too?

Speaker 4 (22:17):
You mean say it like you, I love you? Paying
out a miss carlor tell us a secret.

Speaker 16 (22:26):
Okay. I work for five star food Bendy, So anything
that expires, I'm supposed to pull it and throw it
in the garbage. But it's so many people out here
that's homeless and hungry. I take it and I go
around and give it to the homeless.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
That's really nice.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
End Yeah, what throw I throw that away when somebody
could benefit from it. That's a waste, That's what I
keep saying.

Speaker 16 (22:52):
You will be amazed how many folks people throw so
much food and stuff away that is still good and
people is bigging and hungry all the time. You don't
know how many times homeless people have awful these stuff
that they found just because I gave him food, and
I'm like, no, you know, I like helping people.

Speaker 12 (23:10):
You know, that's that's what makes me feel good.

Speaker 7 (23:12):
That's really good to you.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
That's a good secret.

Speaker 11 (23:14):
See, I love you guys.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Some work.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Keep spreading love okay and feeding the people.

Speaker 16 (23:20):
Yes, ma'am, no problem.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Thanks, I have a good thing all right.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
Well that was your tell us a secret. Thank you
guys so much for sharing. We do always appreciate you.
And when we come back, we have yet let's talk
about this splitting finances fifty to fifty. For some reason,
Gabrielle Union felt like she needed to explain herself even more.
Will tell you what she said. It's way up with
Angela yee.

Speaker 8 (23:40):
Sure she's about to blow the lid about this, butts
get it. Angela's feeling that yeeze, Come and get your tea.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yes, it is way up at Angela yee. I'm Angela yee.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
And new Manoa listen you on point now.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
I like it, Yes, new Mana, Yes, it's here and
let's discuss. Gabrielle Union has a letted on the comments
that she made when she did her interview with Noah
Callahan Bever on his Bloomberg series Idea Generation. And here's
what she originally said about splitting finances fifty to fifty
with d Wade.

Speaker 18 (24:12):
I think I just have more responsibilities for my money,
and I'm trying to find peace in the journey, not
using my anxiety and scarcity mindset to be my engine.
It's weird to say I'm head of household because in
this household we split everything fifty to fifty. But in
the other household set each of us have to support.

(24:32):
There's always this like gorilla on your back that is like,
you better work.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
All right now, she posted because a lot of people
were weighing in with their opinions. Right, let oh, he's
worth two hundred million, Why you splitting everything fifty to fifty?
He should be paying for this, He should be paying
for that, y'all roommates. I saw a lot of people
weighing in now, she responded. Every household is different, and
doing what's best for you and yours is the key.
And what some don't understand is that I'm one hundred

(24:58):
percent responsible for three other households and d has even more.
The majority of those households are elderly people and minors.
We both come from families that step up to help
care for children or elderly relatives. So being able to
be with someone who meets me halfway and lightens my
lug gives me peace and support. He's offered to cover
me trust, but that's not my ministry nor brings me peace.
All that to say, I love how we recognize that

(25:19):
there's billions of ways to exist and you just got
to find what's right for you that brings you peace.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
I found mine, right to each his own.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
Yeah, on what works for you is some women that
don't want to be coddled and just taking care of
They want to put in and they want to do
what they what they can do, and if.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
She can afford to do that, like I'm sure, like
she said, he's offered to cover it if she's Their
money is together regardless, right, right, So they're married and
I'm sure whatever she needs, she can take care of whatever.
So it might be some household bills and they're like, look,
I do my.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Part, to do your part.

Speaker 7 (25:52):
That's the agreement that they have.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, nothing wrong with that, and she can do that
all right.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
Now, speaking of couples and fifty to fifty and all
of this, Jay Z and Beyonce have made the most
expensive real estate deal ever in California. We talked about this, right,
They bought a two hundred million dollar house in Malibu, California.
Not just a house, I mean it's like a compound. Well,
it turns out school that they paid for that cash.
According to reports all right, sources with direct knowledge tote

(26:20):
TMZ that they paid that for that thirty thousand square
foot Malibu mansion.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
She probably went fifty to fifty on it, right, I
mean she's got some money too.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
You put a buck in, I'll put a buck in.
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Right.

Speaker 5 (26:31):
So his net worth is two point five billion dollars
and last year they estimated that Beyonce's net worth is
just shy a five hundred million. But she's doing this
renaissance tour which is going to make more than a
billion dollars. So there you have it, all right, there
you go. I'm not mad at it. And Danny Lay,
by the way, posted that she worked on Beyonce's Renaissance tour.
She said it was an honor and such a blessing,

(26:54):
So shout out to her for choreography. We can never
forget that. Danny Lay also did choreography for Prince early on.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yeah, yeah, that was a big deal. Prince personally had
her do some choreography.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
All right. Now, let's talk about Carmelo Anthony.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
He just an hour negotiated a video montage of some
of his greatest career moments, and he wrote thank you
on social media. He is officially retiring. He has announced
his retirement at age thirty eight, after nineteen NBA seasons.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Here is some of that montage.

Speaker 9 (27:24):
Now, the time has come for me to say goodbye
to the court where I made my name, to the
game that gave me purpose and pride. But this bittersweet
about to the NBA. I'm excited about what the future
holds for me. When people ask what I believe my
legacy is, it's not my feats on the court that
come to mind, no awards or praise, because my story
has always been more than basketball.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
My legacy.

Speaker 9 (27:47):
My son, I would put ever continue to do you
because the time has come for you.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
To carry this torch.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
That is dope. He passed the torch to his son,
to Kanye.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
Yeah, and Kanyne is nice.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Yeah, sixteen years old, So congratulations to him. Quite an
amazing career.

Speaker 7 (28:04):
That's right, you can't. Can't. Well, he did it his way.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
He did it his way. Yeah, so and that's it.
And speaking of basketball players, I don't know if you
saw this.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
People believe that Jimmy Butler was trying to shoot his
shot at Young Miami who was courtside. People were on
social media they were like, to Young Miami, I see
you at the Heat game chrying to something Jimmy Butler.
I can't say the word. And then she said who
said that? And then she put laughing emojis and yeah,
because you could see him saying something to.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Her right at the game.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
Can't knocket, can't?

Speaker 4 (28:35):
All right, Well, that is your yet. And when we
come back, we have under the radar.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
These are the stories that are not necessarily headline news stories,
but we feel like you need to know about them.
I saw some really interesting ones over the weekend, so
we'll get into that when we come back.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
It's way up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
I got news this in the news that relates to you.
These stories are flying under the.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Radar, all right, It's way up with Angela Yee. I'm
Angela Yee.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
No, let's go Navy, let's go navy.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Okay, so let's discuss bachelor parties.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
What percentage would you say of Americans have cheated on
their partners while attending bachelor parties? Ninety five seventy may No,
I don't know which ones you're at, but over seventy percent.

Speaker 7 (29:21):
I mean that's not far.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
I think it also.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
Depends on your definition of cheating, because some people consider
lap dances cheating.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
Is that cheating for you a lap dance?

Speaker 4 (29:32):
No, I don't think so. I think for me, it
is any type of sex, whether it's right. Can I
say oral?

Speaker 6 (29:41):
Yeah? So I said ninety five percent of people in
seventy five percent people did it?

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Seven all.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
The most unfaithful state was Delaware, with nearly eighty nine
of their residents admitting to cheating on their partners while
attending bachelor or bachelorette parties or they're doing it. And now,
as far as people getting married and it being the
last Hurrah, they said that number is about eleven point
two percent. Yes, no, you think it's more than that

(30:12):
last Hurrah. Imagine you get married and then you find
out the person that you are married, that you married,
cheated at their bachelor party.

Speaker 7 (30:19):
What are you gonna do you already married?

Speaker 5 (30:22):
I know, but that you're not supposed to cheap period.
I don't know how we feel about that. You can't
do that, all right. It's funny because we're saying how
my cousin got married over the weekend her fiance they
went hiking him and his boys.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
That's what they did. Mean for the bachelor party on
the hill? No, okay.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
Anyway, Instagram is planning to release a text based app
that's going to compete with Twitter, and it's going to
debut as soon as next month. So they're testing that
product with influencers and some creators. According to the report,
I think this is the time if you want to
launch something to compete with Twitter. Obviously, Meta, which owns
Instagram and Facebook, is the platform to do that.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
Twitter is out of pocket now.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Yeah, people have a lot of issues with Twitter right now.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
People have to pay for certain things if you want
to come for them, and there's a lot of people
that are looking for an alternative. This is it, all right.
And as far as iPhones, let's talk about that. They're
saying iPhones will be able to speak in your voice
within fifteen minutes of training. There's a new bundle of
features designed for cognitive vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility. There's
a new personal voice feature for people who may lose

(31:26):
their ability to speak, so you can create a synthesized
voice that sounds just like them. You can create a
personal voice by reading a set of text prompts allowed
for a total of fifteen minutes of audio on your
iPhone or iPad, and then it can go ahead and.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Do your voice.

Speaker 7 (31:39):
It's basically AI mano, yep, definitely.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Yes, listen. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
And I saw Rashad from Earn Your Leisure. He was
showing that they can also come up with great Instagram
captions in your like.

Speaker 7 (31:55):
So this is just straight up AI.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, this is it.

Speaker 7 (31:59):
This is it.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
We don't even need to exist.

Speaker 7 (32:01):
They don't even need us.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yeah, they don't need us, all right. And more women
are suing the state of Texas. They're saying the anti
abortion laws there have harmed them. There's already a lawsuit
that has been filed by five different women that was
filed in March, and two doctors who say that pregnant
patients are being denied abortions under Texas's law. Even though
these women were facing serious medical complications.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Well, now eight more.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
Women are joining that lawsuit and saying that these bands
have put their health or lives at risk while facing
pregnancy related medical emergencies. So now the total number of
plaintiffs is at fifteen. All right, So they need to
clarify the meaning of medical exceptions in that state's anti
abortion statutes.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
And that's the problem.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
Right, Sometimes women's lives can be at risk, but because
of the law in Texas, these women don't have access
to what it is that they need to save their
own lives potentially. All right, Well, that is you're under
the radar, and we do have the Way Up Mix
at the top of the hour. Plus L cool Jay
is going to be joining us as an LL cool J.
Mix has a lot of hits, of course he does

(33:05):
LLL cool J. Yes, and he has this forced tour
that's happening. It's gonna be we should go to we
should go see it at the Barclays. But he's gonna
have some legends and hip hop. You know, it's fifty
years of hip hop this year, so there's a lot
of great things happening. He has a book. We're gonna
talk to him about all of that. It's way up
at Angela Yee, just like the.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Tout like they Angela Jean, like they Angela Jee.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Man, she's spilling it all this is ye t way.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
Yes, it's way up at Angela Ye. I'm Angela Yee
And yes, yes there we no new may no, it's
here with us. And we've been going back and forth
over this fight, all right. That happened over the weekend,
Devin Haney versus Lomachenko at the MGM Grand in Vegas,
and I saw a lot of controversy online because Devin
Haney did win the fight according to the judges, but

(33:55):
some people feel.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Like it wasn't.

Speaker 7 (33:58):
It was a very very very very close fight.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
It was a unanimous decision according to the judges right
in favor of Devin Haney, and Lo Matenko himself does
not feel like he lost that fight.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
Here is but he had to say afterwards.

Speaker 7 (34:11):
You're in an old fight.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
I controlled the fight and I read him this fight.
So for me, of course, it was a big surprise.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
For me.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
It's a big, big question what happened. See, now, do
you agree that he controlled the fight the whole I'm
not gonna.

Speaker 6 (34:26):
Say he controlled the whole fight because Haini, you know,
most of the fight he was trying to apply a
lot of pressure to him. But the fight was close.
It was very close. I mean to me, the most
decisive rounds was eleven and twelve. He decisively beat Hani
in eleven and Haini decisively beat him in twelve. Now

(34:46):
there was other rounds that you know, Haini may have
outscored him, but it was a close fight. I would
have been cool with a.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Drawer, Okay, you would have been cool with Yeah, I
would have been cool with a draw Who landed more punches?

Speaker 7 (35:01):
I don't know, they're gonna see. See, this is the thing.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
Haini was punching him in his in his left ribs
right the whole.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Fight, and he's famous for that.

Speaker 7 (35:10):
Right.

Speaker 6 (35:11):
It was a body thing, but my whole thing. It
wasn't a unanimous decision for me. If it was a
split decision, I could see that more. It definitely wasn't unanimous.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Here's what Devin Handy had to say afterward.

Speaker 19 (35:22):
At the end of the day, the people could say
what they want to say. The judges out of the
unitimous decision. That's all that matters is is the judges
and each judge was was, you know, on the same
page when it came to that decision. So I got
the victory.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
Okay. See he's right about that.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
And this is the question that people have been asking
even before this fight, to both Javonte Davis.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
And Devin Haney. Here's what Devin Handy had to say
about fighting Javonte Me.

Speaker 19 (35:47):
And Tank is a is a massive fight.

Speaker 7 (35:49):
And you know it's gonna happen sooner than later.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah, he said it's gonna happen sooner than later.

Speaker 20 (35:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (35:55):
People.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
And listen for Devin Haney for his part, he said,
this proves that he can really be a draw. Uh right,
because everybody's talking about this fight right now and even afterward.
And here is Davonte Davis responding to Devin Haney, and
he's asked whether he thinks that he's better than you
know who he could beat.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
And here's what he had to.

Speaker 7 (36:14):
Say, cannot touch me at all. They've all been in
the ring with me. They've all been in the ring,
and I cracked both of them. I've cracked both of them.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
And he's talking about Sha Korus Stevenson and Devin Haney. Okay,
And here's what Shakar Stevens had to say in the
ring after this fight too.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Lemachago should be on disputed Chapia.

Speaker 7 (36:34):
He won, he landed to clean the punches.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
What you saw tonight means that if Devin Haney decides
to say at one thirty five, you could potentially get
a shot at the undisputed title.

Speaker 7 (36:45):
How much do you want that fight? Let's make it happen.
I think that should happen next. I think Devin not
on my level when I'm gonna show it.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Whoo. So you think it could have been a draw?

Speaker 7 (36:54):
And okay?

Speaker 4 (36:56):
With that, could you have seen Lomachenko winning?

Speaker 6 (36:58):
I could have saw that too. It was very close.
I mean, it wasn't a decisive win. So you know,
it's it's always like that when it's not clear. You know,
in the eyes of the people, I would like to
see him fight Javonte. I'm leaning way more towards Javonte. Okay,
I like I like Devin Haney a lot.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 7 (37:21):
That's your nephew.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
I thought it's not my your god son, but no,
my fan Angrid, that's her stepson and so but yes,
I do. I do look at Devin Handy like he's
my little nephew. I've been watching him box since he's
you know, been really young.

Speaker 7 (37:36):
Devinty slammed over here.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
Now listen, I'm a fan, and I did think like
it was going to be more of a decisive win
because coming into this fight, I was like, yes, it's on,
but you.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
Know that's what we want to see a fan of boxing.

Speaker 5 (37:51):
Yeah, and look, this is what the judges decided, and
I've seen say that it is. But the judge's decision
is and like you said, it wasn't a decisive one
either way.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
So it could have went either way, could win because
if lo Mitenko would have won, people would have been like,
but I think they stole it, right.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
But I think if people if it was a draw,
I think people would have been satisfied with that because
it's like, okay, they clearly, you know, it was so
close that they gave it a draw and we got
to do it again. I think people would have been
more satisfied with that.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
Now, let me ask you this, When you're the champ, right,
did somebody have to beat you decisively?

Speaker 7 (38:24):
I mean they supposed to.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
Well, Lo Mitenko's team is intending to appeal this decision
lost to Devin Haney. So they're saying this is the
biggest robbery in the daylight. Haney's team got Christmas in
the summer.

Speaker 7 (38:37):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
Now, realistically, they're saying they would have seen to be
almost no chance off this appeal actually overturning Haney's win.
And there are many questions about where Hanny will even
go from here as it pertains to moving up and
wait or not. But they feel like they definitely could
have won, and they said they are gonna appeal.

Speaker 7 (38:55):
I'm saying, I've never seen it get overturned.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Yeah, let's see, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
All right.

Speaker 5 (39:00):
Well that is your yee tee. That was all about boxing,
but you know how to do it all right. Now,
you know it's a Monday, so you.

Speaker 7 (39:08):
Know what that means, main ovation.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
It's time for some.

Speaker 5 (39:11):
Monday main ovation, baby, and I cannot wait to hear
what you have for us today.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
I know you've been out all night. I know you've
been having a lot of stuff going on. You showed
me some struggle basketball.

Speaker 7 (39:24):
You see me getting busy at seven thirty in the morning.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
When we come back, we got Monday main Ovation. It's
way up for Angela Yee.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yeah, she back at it.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
Bring in the Way Up with Angela Yee is on
all right? It is way up for Angela Yee. And
we have a really special guest in the building. I
wasn't sure who he was at first, so I had
to ask him his name. Yeah, yeah, yeah, hello, cool
J is here.

Speaker 7 (39:48):
What's up? What's up?

Speaker 5 (39:48):
We just had a conversation about if he's ever had
to introduce himself, like someone doesn't know and he swears it.

Speaker 7 (39:53):
Has No one ever recognizes me.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
That's a lie.

Speaker 7 (39:55):
Ever never, I'm never recognized. Everywhere I go, nobody knows.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
But congres ratulations on everything. I mean, it's amazing.

Speaker 5 (40:02):
I can't remember like first hearing ll Choj myself, you know,
coming up and you were only probably like sixteen years old,
the skinny kid dancing in front of a radio.

Speaker 7 (40:11):
Yeah, it's absolute facts.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
You know, I'm very grateful, you know what I mean,
Like having fun with it, that's what it's about, right,
Like you dream it, then make it happen, and dream
some more and then make that happen.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
I know, who would have thought that this much later,
Like you're about to be back on tour.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
This has been thirty years since you've done arena tours, right,
Who could have ever thought that it would be like this.
I remember you said you had to explain what hip
hop was, Oh when you first started performing one hundred percent?

Speaker 7 (40:35):
Like I was in Maine. I did a concert Maine
and you know, they had never seen it before at all.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
I was explaining to them what the DJ was doing,
my DJ co creator with records, going back and forth,
telling them I'm rapping this as a beat that I
had to take them to do a complete tutorial, you
know what I'm saying. So, and a lot of places
I went, it was that kind of a vibe. We
were like breaking new ground. There weren't no managers, there
was no market. You know, it was just like kind
of a new world.

Speaker 5 (41:00):
And you know what else I realize about you too
now that I put everything back into perspective, right, So
doing songs like everybody always used to be, like I
need to do what I.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Need love song?

Speaker 5 (41:08):
Yeah, you know every hip hop artist at some point
felt like they needed one of those songs for the
ladies that was like a deep heartfelt song. Did you
have any idea what type of impact that was going
to happen. Did you think it would be risky to
put something like that out when you did it? Well,
I never paid attention to risk when I made a
love song. I just made it because that's what I
wanted to make.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
It didn't matter if somebody felt like if I if
like someone needed to judge me a certain way and
wanted to change my brand a certain way in their eye, Like,
I didn't care about that. All I cared about was
being true to who I am as an artist. And
that's all I still care about.

Speaker 7 (41:41):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
I love But then the next minute, you want to
knock someone out.

Speaker 7 (41:45):
Yeah, all that, But we all have different sides, right,
We all have different sides. Right, You ain't gonna just
be one person, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 4 (41:52):
What made you right that?

Speaker 7 (41:52):
What was going on?

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Mama said, knock you out?

Speaker 1 (41:55):
So that record came off when I did a Walking
with a Panther the album cover. In all of that,
that was a time when I introduced a lot of
diamonds and ice and jewelry and champagne, yeah and all
of that.

Speaker 7 (42:06):
Like, I really brought a lot of that to the world,
to the world of hip hop.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
You know, I'd been uptown a lot of you know,
hang on a lot of dudes uptown, and that was
just what I was doing every day, what my friends did,
and it kind of rubbed off on me, and so
I presented that in my music, presented that to the world,
where I got a lot of backlash at that time
because that didn't become popular till maybe ten years later
or seven eight years later. It ended up getting popular later,

(42:29):
So when I initially did it, it was like, you know,
it's like, oh, you're doing this. You think you this,
you think you that. So the Knock You Out record
was about showing people that just because I made this
celebratory album Panther, doesn't mean that I can't do other things. Yeah,
well well no with the Spear, yeah that too, we
could do that too, but you know, that's a lot
of stitches. But it definitely was just about like just

(42:51):
showing people what I'm capable of. It's just like with
the new record that I worked on. You know, it's yeah,
the album about the whole the whole record. I just
want to show people or what was possible.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
I tried to cut a Q tip about that too,
right before you got here. I was like, all right, ell,
I was coming up here. I need some you know.
I was trying to get some details. He was so
tight lipped.

Speaker 7 (43:09):
He was like, it's done, Yo, it's done. So he
would tell me, Yo, the record is done, and it's
I think he did an amazing job. I think he's
a brilliant dude.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
How did that conversation even happen with you and Q
Tip to decide all right, let's do this album together.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
I want you to executive produce.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
So the real story is that I started off, I
did about thirty or forty songs with Doctor Dre. I
felt like the music was amazing. What Dre was bringing
to the table was super dope. But I felt like
the writing, what I was bringing to these songs, it
didn't feel strong enough to me. It didn't feel like
I didn't feel like I was expressing I was getting
out of me what I was feeling. So I took
a pause. Me and Dre just kind of paused for

(43:44):
a minute, and I ended up having a dream. And
then this dream Fife dolphim from a trip Corp Quest.

Speaker 7 (43:50):
Came to me.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
When he came to me in a dream, He's like, Yo,
that album you're gonna do what Dre is gonna be dope.
And I'm looking at him, but he's like smirking a
little bit, like he had a funny look on his face,
and I'm.

Speaker 7 (43:58):
Like, well, why are you looking like that? And then
he just had that Chestia cat green.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
So finally woke up, and then over the course of
a day or two, I just felt like, you know,
Q Tip was on my spirit, so I just called him.
He picked up on the first ring, like Yo, what up.
I'm like, Yo, I'm gonna do an album, man, Like, well,
what you want to do? I said, I just want
some pickle juice, hot sauce, you know what I'm saying.
I just wanted like the most flavorful, most you know.
And we went and did the recon and and the

(44:24):
rest is history.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
So you really live, breathe, sleep and dream hip hop.

Speaker 7 (44:28):
There's no question about that. I mean, there's no question
about that.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
I mean I've been a fan since I was eight
or nine, grew up in At sixteen, I was turned professional.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
Like like going out on the road like that at
such a young age.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
I mean, it was it was amazing. Instead of the problem.
I went on tour It's a huge difference. You know
what I'm saying. I've never been to a prom.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
All right, we are talking to the legend El cool Day.
I always say his name like that. What made you
decide now, like back to every because that's a long
time to take off from doing arena tour thirty years? Yeah,
I mean, and you could have been doing this, so
what made you not do it?

Speaker 7 (45:05):
Just busy?

Speaker 1 (45:05):
One thing I learned early on is don't limit yourself.
Try different things. I had ten platinum albums in a row.
I wanted to try something else, and I said, okay,
let me try TV and we get it. We do
a fourteen year run. I think it was gonna last
two years. Did they know it was gonna last fourteen years?

Speaker 7 (45:21):
But I'm not gonna quit and leave these people hanging? Right.
If I say I'm gonna do something, I do it.
So I committed.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
So it's Roctor Bell's your favorite song? I have to
ask you that because obviously you have the whole rock
to Bells. No, it's not my franchise. So I'm like,
this gotta be like. I mean, the way it starts
I think is iconic. It is right, the way that
it just comes in.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
But I'm like, is this is No, it's not my.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Favorite song, but that's about is Look, the real thing
about that is a long time ago those guys were
running around with the Rock the Bells tour and I
was okay with it a little bit for a minute,
and then one day they called me up and try
to offer me. So, you know, ufeated, like I was
staring at the phone. Look that I said, So you're
running around with my IP and then you called me

(46:04):
with that, let me.

Speaker 7 (46:05):
Get that back.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
If you gotta run that back? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you
gotta run that back. So I went, I just took
it back. You know, I took it because I thought
what it was doing was good for hip hop. So
that's why I didn't have a problem with it. So
I took it and then I you know, turned it
into what it is now. So now it's content is
commerce experiences is lifting up all of these artists. There's
been this huge resurgence and timeless artists and you know,

(46:28):
Rock the Bells, the team at Rock the Bells is
hugely responsible largely for a lot of this big resurgence
that we're feeling. And it's fifty years of hip hop.
Like you know, before it was like people didn't even
want to stand next to certain people. It's like, oh,
I'm embarrassed, or I gotta pretend I'm fourteen forever. Oh no,
I don't have to do that, you know what I'm saying.
Because if Bono can be who he is, and Tom

(46:48):
Cruise can be who he is, you know, and Mick
Jagger can be who he is that lookoj can be
who he is, I don't have to stand next to
anybody else to appear to be something else.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
Like, yeah, is growing up? It's nice. Okay, yeah, it's fine.

Speaker 7 (47:01):
But I'm good with that.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
So that's how I kind of approached it, you know
what I'm saying. So now I look at it and
I look at the way the artists are being treated.
I look at the success. I look at the resurgence.
I look at all the shows they're doing. That makes
me feel amazing. And I love the fact that it's
cross generational. So when we do the Grammys, it's like,
you know what, get Little Baby, get glow Riller, you
know what I'm saying, Get a little Uzy's.

Speaker 7 (47:23):
You know forty. Yeah, it's for all the generations.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
That's the beauty of it, right, So like I want
to see guys like five Year succeed and I want
to see these different artists do well.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
You know what I'm saying when they sample some of
the because it makes people really go back and be like, oh,
this is where this came from. And I think that's
amazing when people do that too. Yeah, because it doesn't
bother you when people stample your music.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
As long as I like the song. As long as
I like the song, If I don't like the song,
I'm not gonna click.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
Okay, it depends because.

Speaker 7 (47:51):
You know some people, I don't like hating all guys.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
I don't like.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
You, don't like interrupting people's creativity by blocking clearances. I
don't really do that a lot. I have to really
not like the song to do that. But other than that,
I try to. I try to be good about that
because I want to treat people the way I want
to be treated.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
Ll cool J is here joining us.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
We are talking about his tour, fifty years of hip hop,
his history. Maybe there's a movie coming, we'll get into it.
It's way up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
You riding way up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 4 (48:20):
What's up.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
It's way up at the Angel of the Year and
I'm talking to l L cool J. You also have
a book coming out?

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, So I have a book. It's The
Streets Win. It's called The LL cool J Presents the
Streets Win Fifty Years of hip Hop Greatness. So what
I have is I have essays from all of the
different people in hip hop over the years. So everybody
from Doctor Dre to Mary J. Blige, from a Snoop
Dog to an Eminem to all of the different different
Q tip, you know, just different acts, and it's all essays.

(48:48):
So it's straight from the horse's mouth talking about hip
hop and talking about hip hop culture, how they started,
what they love, what they don't like.

Speaker 7 (48:55):
So I got the real stories in this book.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
I think it's good that we also have a chance
to hear some of these stories is now, because I
think as hip hop is growing up and some of
the artists that we might have grew up listening to
who are still out here working now the going and
telling their stories. But some of them are like, oh damn,
I don't know if that was because when you're telling
your stories, sometimes you're telling other people's stories too.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Well, and that's hard. That's a hard balance.

Speaker 7 (49:16):
It ain't really a hard balance at all. Don't put
no names in it, okay, don't don't tell the whole story.
Ain't no names in the joint?

Speaker 4 (49:28):
Does it bother you if people have some ll stories
and they put you in.

Speaker 7 (49:31):
It is what it is, it's going to be.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
It's fine.

Speaker 20 (49:34):
It is what it is.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
It ain't nothing fine, but it is what it is.
I don't tell them like everybody else. Don't tell on
me either, you know what I mean. I ain't volunteering
to get snitched on, but na, I mean, the stories
are what the stories are. I mean, we all live.

Speaker 5 (49:48):
Like how much you think it helps you to get
married at a young age too, because that probably have
a lot of what I read your book, so I know,
but I'm saying. But as far as being more grounded,
you know, because I feel like you would have been
way wilder for real a little while, but you could
have been waiting. He was kind of bad in your book,

(50:11):
Just sayya. Does I think family does sometimes make you
feel a little bit more responsible?

Speaker 7 (50:16):
Definitely? Look look in my life, I was always about quality,
not quantity.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
Okay, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (50:22):
So you know, to each his own your legs shaking.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Yeah, I'm nervous. I'm extremely nervous. You make me very
nervous with these questions. I'm shaking in my boots over here.

Speaker 5 (50:32):
What I was getting to was, you do have four children,
So one of your your daughter is is she an artist?

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Now?

Speaker 7 (50:38):
Yes, she's a songwriter, just graduated from Berkeley College of Music.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
All right, we are talking to the legend L Cool Day.
I always say his name like that. How do you
feel about her being in the music business?

Speaker 9 (50:50):
Is that?

Speaker 7 (50:51):
I think it's amazing. It's what she wants.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
What I try to do with my family and my
kids and all of them, even with Simon, it's just
be a facilitator of dreams.

Speaker 7 (50:59):
She wanted to do her jewelry line.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
I love her line. I'm not gonna lie. It's her
and Mary Day BLI.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Yeah, they rocking My daughter Samaria, she has a Denom
line which does well.

Speaker 7 (51:08):
You know my son he works at Rock the Bells.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
See and you kind of instilled both, both of you
guys instilled that in your kids, like that creativity.

Speaker 7 (51:16):
Yeah, I just want them to look. My thing is
make a contribution to the world.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
You know, when I was saying something to somebody, I
just got some news about somebody who had passed away
that was well known, and me and my man were
talking about how how great of a person he was
and how much of a man he was. And what
I said to my man is while we were in
the mid conversation, I said, you see, we didn't talk
about his bank account. That tells you that you got
to make an impact on the world. The money stuff

(51:43):
that can cloud your vision. It's nothing wrong with it.
Don't get me wrong. I've always been about getting money
with money too, no question. I'm very entrepreneur. You've always
been about getting I promise you. However, I just want
to just caution people. Remember that's not what you talk about.
Nobody talks about Ali's bank account, right, They don't talk

(52:05):
about Miles Davis's bank account.

Speaker 7 (52:06):
We like it when you're alive.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
It is fun, it's nice to shop, it's fun to
get it all, but nobody talks about that when you're going.

Speaker 7 (52:13):
So you have to make an impact, and the impact
you make has to be greater than just a dollar.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
So when you when you're on this radio and when
you're building your show, and when you as you're showing
the younger.

Speaker 7 (52:24):
Girls in yourself, you know what's possible. That's what this
is about.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
It's not only about your contract that and you know
I got my solo deal after I came off the
big show and I've worked it and all.

Speaker 7 (52:34):
It's not just about that.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
It's about what these little girls see when they look
at the show, listen to the show, watch the podcast
and all of that.

Speaker 7 (52:42):
It's about all of that.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
You feel me, Yeah, No, I definitely totally agree with you.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
All right, Normally we would do ask ye next, but
Ello cool Day is here, so I think we can
bump that today.

Speaker 4 (52:51):
All right, it's way up with Angela yee.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
You riding way up with Angela yee?

Speaker 5 (52:58):
What happens way? But Angela ye, and I am talking
to a legend sitting here.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
Ll cool J. So you introduced us to Foxy Brown,
Yeah and DMX and yeah, let's not forget that.

Speaker 5 (53:10):
Yeah, And you know what the thing is, It's like,
I remember when that first I shot to me, when
that came out, I just got to say this. People
thought at first, they were they thought because she was
so hard, they thought it was like a young boy. Yeah,
when that first came out and we were excited when
we realized, no, that's a woman, that's Fox.

Speaker 7 (53:26):
Yeah, yeah, Fox is amazing. Shout out to Foxy.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
I hope she does some music and comes out, you
know during this whole celebratory time.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
You're trying to get her to come out.

Speaker 7 (53:35):
I think she should.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
Yeah, I think she should.

Speaker 21 (53:37):
You gotta stop at the Barclays. I think that would
be little man. I don't see why she wouldn't comeing out.
I mean, yo, the Barclays. We're gonna be at the
Barlas June twenty seventh. We're gonna be a Prudential Center
on June twenty eighth.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
I love that. You know the dates off the top
of your head. Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:52):
So tell us some of the other people that are
on the road with you, guys. I know his phone,
Thugs Day, Last Soul.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Yeah, we got I got Common in Chicago. I got
Yeah Bone Thus, I got iced Tea doing some days.
I got Queen Latifa. Yeah, I got Red Men and
methid Man. I got uh, so many different artists. Like
it's gonna be amazing. You see, I'm telling you people, listen,
the key to everything I'm doing is. It's not about LLLL.
It's about the culture when you come to these shows.

(54:19):
You know, I got empty light on some shows. Yes,
you know what I'm saying, Like it's.

Speaker 7 (54:22):
Gonna be a vibe, it's gonna be I got Jada
kiss on some shows.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
All right, we are talking to the legend L L.
Cool Day. I always say his name like that. Who
are you fan out over? Ever?

Speaker 5 (54:33):
Like when was the last time you was like excited?
Like I can't believe I just met this person? Like
do you ever fan out? Because you've met everybody at
this point, But is there anybody that you've gotten excited over?

Speaker 1 (54:43):
I mean I remember, like maybe quite a few years ago,
I met Meryl Streep and I was like, Oh, I'm
excited to meet Meryl Street. That's exciting. Yeah, Meryl Street,
this is exciting. I felt, I felt a little you
know what I mean. I felt excited. Run Yeah, I
was excited. But a lot of my heroes, you know
a lot of my heroes are my friends.

Speaker 7 (55:02):
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
So you know, like I'm friends with Denzel you know
what I'm saying, But I still love his work, but
he's my man. You know what I'm saying, So that's
a little different, you know what I mean. But I
love to just see people succeed and win. I'm absolutely
the dude that like, I give it up at the concerts.
I give it up when people on TV. I'm clapping,
I'm dancing. I'm not like, I don't.

Speaker 7 (55:22):
I'm not. I don't do the too good, not too cool,
not too cool for school and all that. You know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Concept you ever went to Ever, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Oh man, my first concert, you had the crash crew
sequence flashing them and there was a shootout on tell
of that.

Speaker 7 (55:36):
I had to run up under the stage. I loved it.
I loved it.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Whom oh yeah, I jumped through it. I got over
the barricade with on the stage. I was like looking
at the stage like this day, I'm touching the bottom
of the stage looking up. People are screaming and I'm
just looking up at the bottom of the stage like,
damn you on the stage.

Speaker 7 (55:56):
This is literally what I'm doing.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
This feels like the beginning of the movie.

Speaker 7 (55:58):
It was crazy. It was crazy. It was the craziest moment.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
I feel like there's an LL cool J movie coming.
I don't know, it could be I could, you know,
I have.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
I've had people, you know. Michael Bivens always bugs me
to yo, yo, that's my man too. He like, Yo,
you gotta do a movie. You do yo, bro, you
gotta do it. You know. I definitely think about it,
you know what I'm saying. I've definitely been thinking about
doing one or series around my life. I think people would.
But the first thing I want to do is get
this record out there because I want to show people
what's possible.

Speaker 4 (56:25):
Okay, so when is it coming out? Let's put a
date on it.

Speaker 7 (56:28):
I don't want to put a data on I. Okay,
but it's coming this year, all right, It's coming this
year though.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
All right, so sometime this year.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Sometimes there's no question. Yeah, no, no, no, run it back, yeah, absolutely,
run that back.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
All right?

Speaker 5 (56:41):
Well ll cool, J Thank you so much. This is
our first time sitting down having a conversation. I hope
we do it again.

Speaker 7 (56:45):
We will do it.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
I know you're super busy running around.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
But we'll be there at the Barclays productive all right, yeah, productive,
Thank you, appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
And when we come back, we have last word on
a Monday. It's way up. Take up the phone.

Speaker 8 (56:58):
Taping it gets your voice with the word is is
the last word on way up with Angela?

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Ye, what's up? Its way up at Angela.

Speaker 20 (57:06):
Yee.

Speaker 5 (57:06):
I'm here and had an amazing day with my b
r F, my bed.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
So man today.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
Yeah, you stayed up all night until the next day
in the same clothes. Yet, don't stink. I commend you
for that.

Speaker 7 (57:21):
That that that's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
It's a positive thing. I think a lot of people
if they didn't shower and they didn't change.

Speaker 7 (57:28):
Their clothes, just letting everybody know that he.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
Turned your underwear, your set out.

Speaker 7 (57:32):
I got it. I got it. I could have just
took a shower and just the same clothes back on.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
You didn't do that. I appreciate it though. That's dedication. Okay, yeah,
because I think and do that. Women don't do that.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Do that.

Speaker 7 (57:48):
Don't try that at home.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
I don't try that at home. Please don't try I'll
be late. I'll be like, I'm not gonna be on time.
I've been late a couple of times to when I
was on the Breakfast Club because I was like, I
got to take a shower being out all night. I can't.

Speaker 7 (58:01):
Women don't try that at home.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
I mean, men, y'all really, I'm okay, shower, shower.

Speaker 7 (58:06):
I'm going to go home and take a nap, yeah,
showering a nap.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
A shower and a nap one and listen back at it.
That sleeps gonna be so good. Okay.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
But thank you to lu cool J for joining us today.
We had a great time sitting down and talking to him.
I know he's doing a lot right now, just getting
ready for this tour that he's doing. He's got a
book fifty Years of Hip Hop, and he is one
of the legends.

Speaker 4 (58:31):
You can't even dispute that you can't say hip hop
l Yeah. So I'm definitely gonna check out that toll.
We need to get the box seats at the Barclays,
the box, the Sweet, Yes, we need the Sweet. Okay.

Speaker 5 (58:42):
Shout out to the New York Liberty. By the way,
I went to that game yesterday. Amazing game. We're going
to be at these w NBA games made.

Speaker 4 (58:49):
Are you coming right? I'm gonna pull up all right.

Speaker 5 (58:51):
Well, thank you guys for listening, And as usual, y'all
have the last words.

Speaker 4 (58:55):
So let's get into it. Eight hundred fifty.

Speaker 20 (58:59):
I work in a very public invisible profession and me
and my blue days are actually boy hers and like
love key having only fans and uh a really fun
little secret.

Speaker 6 (59:19):
That we laugh about.

Speaker 18 (59:20):
Hi.

Speaker 11 (59:21):
I had a threesome with my baby daddy sister and
her boyfriend. And it wasn't like I had to go down.

Speaker 22 (59:30):
Or whatever, and I was just like, no, it's miss thinks.
So I was just like, yeah, no, not hey, technically
I have a boyfriend and because you very carries the fashion.
But there's this other boy with other guy that I
really like, and I really been feeling him, like I'll
go see him from sometime or he'll call me at

(59:52):
all time to be like sometimes I just be at work,
he'll call, but I really feel him.

Speaker 6 (01:00:00):
I don't know how to take that.

Speaker 7 (01:00:01):
I'll go about it.

Speaker 22 (01:00:02):
Because I just feel sometimes i'd be gonna grab other
just be like Libby, I don't need the guy.

Speaker 11 (01:00:08):
Angeload. So I'm gonna tell you first of all, I
mean here with this loud mouth that to make them know,
not loud, but yeah, I was going because I got
some information this year and I'm just shame shame saying
I'll try another time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
See Angela Yee is way up