Way Up With IDK & I'm Still Alive Don't Take My Kidney

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I was support every real So I'm gonna tune
in there and they well.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
You are now.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Angela what I call ye?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah? Way up at Angela. Ye, I'm Angela yee. And
Jasmine from the Jasmine brand is here. Everybody got their
little drops popping. You know what I'm saying that the drops,
y'all got yall drops popping.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Thank you, Angela, Happy.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Tuesday, welcome back.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's gonna be a Memorial Day weekend coming up.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
I feel like I've been gone for so long.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
You have, yes, I feel like hey for a long time.

Speaker 6 (00:38):
I know.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, welcome back, Thank you friend. It was an active
yesterday with Mano up here. He had another one of
those all nighters.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
He is not. He is known for all night he
were the same thing he had on the next day.
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
What I don't understand is this show is not day.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Starts not that early, yes, you know, depending on where
you are.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know, I used to do morning Ready.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
I understand in saying okay, we have to get up
at four am, I might as well just stay.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Up right, But the show starts at ten Mano. Yeah, Well,
the thing is what I appreciate about Meno if he
knows himself.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
He knows that. Look, if I go to sleep, I'm
not gonna make it for this.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Is a trooper show.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I gotta go to work.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
By the way, well, we're glad to have you here
as well.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
How was your weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
I had a great weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
I spent time with my daughter Rain and I went
out and I relaxed. I did a little bit of everything,
So it was good.

Speaker 7 (01:27):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Let me tell you, yesterday I was working on trying
to do this real that I have to do for
my airbnb property. How to come out This is hard work, guys,
like trying to put a sticker here at some words here,
some voice over here. I was working on that for
like hours and then you get off frustrated and you're like.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
I give up because I text you and I'm like,
hey girl, mama, what you like, gir I'm trying to
do this real and for couple context, Angela, everyone knows
not everyone knows, but you have a property in upstate
New York.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes, and the catskills. I have an airbnb. It's a
new thing for me. And my real to Sarah and
I did it together and I was actually there over
the weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's a beautiful space.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
But I'm trying to make sure we're doing something with
some influencers, getting some stays up there. But me like
trying to put together this real because it's such a
great place. There's so many things I could say about it.
But I'm beautiful, but I'm also it's just very detail.
It's like editing a movie or something.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
It is a lease show me to us out a product.
It really good. You did, you did a good job.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Don't hype it up.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
Well okay, yeah, let's over deliver and under under promise,
over delivered that it is okay, all.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Right, Well, you know what we gotta do.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
We gotta shine a light on eight hundred two nine
fifty fifty somebody who did something amazing positive for you.
We want you to call up and shot them out
and shine that light on them. I have somebody I
want to shine a light on today because I got
a nice surprise yesterday.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
And those are always the best.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Right now, somebody asking me for something, somebody actually giving
me something. It's way up with Angela Guim.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I'm shin turn your lights on, y'all. It'spreading love to
those who are doing greatness.

Speaker 8 (03:04):
Shine the light.

Speaker 7 (03:06):
Shine the light on them. It's time to shine a
light on them.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yes, it is way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee,
and Jasmine is here.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's like a wrestling wwe welcome it is and we
are shining a light on him. That's where we get
to shout out somebody doing something amazing and positive. And
I want to shine a light on Keana Groom. She's
a black woman who, by the way, happens to be
the property manager of this building where I hear is located.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
This is a huge building in midtown.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yes, this is a massive building.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yes, no small feat that she takes care of this property.
And I met her for the first time yesterday. Okay,
And not only did I meet her, she gave us
a bottle of dom Pe to celebrate oh us in
the building. So I was like, man, I can't wait
till Jasmine comes to work and we can pop this
baby open.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Oh my goodness. We love her already.

Speaker 9 (03:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
I told her yesterday said I'm gonna go upstairs and
drink this right now, but you weren't here, so I
decided to wait. I appreciate that, Angela, but I do
love to see a black woman in that position.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
And what's her name again?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Kiana?

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Kiana Grooms from Waterman Properties. So thank you so much, Keana.
We appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Thank you Keana.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
All right, and it was a nice surprise. I was
coming back from getting a juice for me and menu.
I ran outside to go pick it up, and as
I was walking in here she is, okay, some share
some bubbly I love that, and not just any bubbly dompy.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
All right, Well, who do you guys want to shine
a light on?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Eight hundred two ninet two fifty one to fifty somebody
doing something positive?

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Cadija, Who you want to shine a light on?

Speaker 6 (04:38):
I want to shine a line out of my sons,
Kaden and Key.

Speaker 10 (04:41):
And I just like to know that Mommy's so proud
of them and I love.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
Them so much.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh that's so see. How old are your kids this summer? Oh? Wow?

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I love a summer birthday. My birthdays in January. I
used to hate that I didn't have a summer birthday.
What you're gonna do for their birthdays?

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Well, they're getting digging up now where they got placed?

Speaker 4 (04:59):
The they got video games?

Speaker 6 (05:00):
They just want bikes, right, now and go to our kids.
And I'm music in parks and stuff. So that's what
we're doing this summer.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
That's good being outside, baby right, all right, well, thank
you for calling.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Thank you, Hey, Ricky, who you want to shine a
light on?

Speaker 9 (05:16):
I want to sign a light on my kids mother.

Speaker 8 (05:19):
She is amazing. She does everything. I'm a truck driver,
so my schedules all over the place. She take everything.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
What's her name again, that's a beautiful that's a beautiful name.

Speaker 8 (05:34):
Beautiful name, faith wad. I take care of everything my
kids wants, but.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Nothing that's great, and that's got to be a release.

Speaker 8 (05:44):
Niece, my niece, my nephews.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
And that's got to be released relief for you being
on the road, knowing that everything is being held down.

Speaker 8 (05:52):
It's a relief. I just got back from last week,
but I called out because stuff that needs to happen,
and I'm finally able to take my thund therapy. I
gave her a little break this morning. I got to
all the boys, four boys ready this morning. Somewhay, you
had to coach me, but she had to relax.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Look all right, well, thank you for calling. Shout out
to Jelavia.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I shout out to Yes, Well that was Shina Light
and I'm eight hundred nine two fifty one fifty And
when we come back, we have Yee team and let's
talk about Janelle Monee. She's on the cover of Rolling
Stone and we'll tell you some of the things that
she has to say. People are so mad that she
has her breast out. She look good, she looks amazing,

(06:36):
and we'll tell you what she has to say about
it all on way up at Angelaee Joe.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
She's about to blow the lid ab off this but
let's get it. Oh, Angela's billing at Yee te Come
and get your tea.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Hey kay, it's where you put Angela Ye. I'm Angelaee
and my girl Jasmine is here.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Happy Tuesday, Angela.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Happy Tuesday. And these are some stories that you can
also find on the jazzmin brand dot com. Yeah, Janelle
Monee is on the cover of Rolling Stone and she's
been talking about her new album, The Age of Pleasure,
as well as embracing nudity and also championing pleasure. She
spoke about all of this and the cover story. The
album comes out on June ninth. I saw a lot

(07:13):
of people criticizing her for being topless having her breast out,
but she said, you know, she can do what she
wants to do right now. She said, I'm much happier
when my I don't think I could say this word,
but tatas well you did, but yes, she said, she's
much happier when her breasts around.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
I can run around free.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
And she also reminded people that she defined herself as
a free a mfor and she goes by the pronouns
she her or they them all right. We also saw
her video for a Lipstick Lover, and I saw again
it was a lot of outrage over that, but I mean,
she looks amazing.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
You know what's interesting is remember she used to be
so buttoned up with those suits, only wear one or
two colors, and now she's totally free. So I think
it's just like a shock book because well, people don't
usually go topless.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
And I think it's also what we saw right because
in this interview she said, even when I was really
really wearing only suits, I was either in a suit
or you would find me at my own party's naked.
But we never had ac We didn't see that until
we saw it was no in between and she also
said during COVID she started indulging in marijuana. She used
to not do that at all because she said, I

(08:24):
grew up fearful of marijuana because I had parents who
were addicts. Her father suffered from a crack cocaine addiction.
She said they would always say weed is a gateway
drug to being a crackhead. And I grew up with
that in my mind and heart. And when the pandemic hit,
everything closed down. She decided to test out weed. And
she's also advocating for better mental health care for all
Americans because she said, not a lot of people have
the luxury of saying or doing what it is I'm doing.

(08:46):
I think that therapy, life coaching included should be free
for every American.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
If my breast looked like that, I might be doopless too.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. She does look amazing. She
looks beautiful all right now. Winda Pikes I recently did
an interview with The Guardian. I'm loving all these interviews,
and she's talking about cancel culture. She also has a
new stand up special on Netflix is called I'm an Entertainer,
and she said she's not worried about cancel culture. She
said to me, the whole complaint about cancel culture is

(09:15):
a lot of men, especially straight men, who are just
pissed that they can't say things anymore. And it's not
like you can't say these things. You can say them,
but now there's just consequences. So that's why I say
I can't get canceled. Only God can say, all right, Wanda,
that's enough. So she talks about a lot of different things.
She even talks about publicly cutting ties with Roseanne. When

(09:35):
Roseanne posted a racist tweet about a senior member of
the Obama administration. She was a consulting producer and a
writer on The Connors at that time, which was the
reboot of the Roseanne sitcom. She said she left the
show in response to those statements, and she said there
was no rift. She said, honestly, I never like fell
out with her. I just made a statement that I
could no longer be on that show because of the comment.
And she just doesn't have a fear of being taken

(09:56):
down in today's cultural climate.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
I love it, and so she had her special I'm
an entertainer, Okay, I want to check that out. I
think she's hilarious, she's funny, she's smart, funny love one
decikes all right, and a billionaire. Jeff Bezos is engaged
to Laurence Sanchez.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
They've been together nearly five years. This is all according
to page six. Now they've been on his five hundred
a million dollar yacht just hanging out, partying, and rumors
have been swirling because she was seen with a diamond
on her ring finger. They started dating back in twenty eighteen.
News broke that they were a couple in twenty nineteen.
They kept a low profile because he was married still

(10:33):
to his wife of twenty five years. That divorce was finalized,
and so now they are having a good time traveling
the world.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
Good.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
This is what this might be wife number two? Maybe yes, indeed,
so like this five years is a good time.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I think he was.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Married for twenty five years prior to this. All right,
well that is your yet and when we come back,
we have about last night. You actually flew up on
that way up with yee on Twitter, Instagram, whatever it
is and communicate with us so we can see what
JA had going on last night too.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's way up at Angela.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Ye, So about last night, La last night as I
went down.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
All right, it is way up at Angela Yee.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'm Angela Yee, and Jasmine from the Jasmine brand is
here with me.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'm my own brand.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Let them know.

Speaker 7 (11:18):
Now.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Jasmine always comes to me with some issue that may
not be an issue, but she likes to make issues
none issues into issues.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Is that what you call Angela?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yes, because I feel like sometimes we can read too
much into things instead of just trying and think too
hard and overthinking.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
I am definitely an overthinker. All right.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
So, being that you're single now and you're getting back
out there into this dating world, somebody was talking to
you about long distance dating, so I don't know how
much you want to tell, and he'd be like, Candela,
why did you say that?

Speaker 4 (11:53):
So?

Speaker 5 (11:53):
Angela's right, someone was talking to me. It was a
guy was talking to me about long distance dating or
you know that kind of thing, and I told them
that I don't do long distance. I don't do long
distance like I don't. I don't mind dating long distance,
but I won't be in a relationship with someone.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Why is that a hard fast rule for you?

Speaker 4 (12:11):
I just don't.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
It's because I just it just seems like it's it's
a little challenge.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
It seems like it's to update you. But I won't
be serious with you if it's long distance.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
I'm not saying I won't be serious with you it's
long distance, but I say I won't be exclusive with you.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
But that's serious.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Oh is it? I can be seriously dating someone.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
No, So it's just not going to go anywhere. You
know that for a fact, it's just too hot.

Speaker 5 (12:32):
I think it's just too hard with long distance, with
the logistics of it. And and that person's response was like,
you're long you don't even live in one place.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, that's a fact. You're from back and forth between
DC and New York, right. I think that long distance
relationships can have a lot of benefits.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah, it could be fun.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, think about it. First of all, you guys talk
on the phone a lot.

Speaker 10 (12:52):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Sometimes that doesn't happen when you're in the same place
where you're just able to have conversations. You might meet
up with each other and then it's just all about
getting it in you know.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah. Yeah, but here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
It is, Yeah, and you get to know each other
a lot better in a long distance relationship.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
I like long distance dating.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
I have no problem with it, but I just feel like,
you know, sometimes I want I would want a person
if I'm in a like relationship with someone, sometimes I
would like to come home to that person or at
the last minute, like hey, let's do this and this
is It's a lot of planning when you're doing long
time and sometimes you can.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, sometimes, but sometimes you cannot.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
But why are you limiting yourself?

Speaker 4 (13:26):
No, I'm not I'm dating date. I will date someone
long distance.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
But you can't date with the intention of knowing it's
not going anywhere.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
I am dating and just being open to it. But
I don't do that.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
You have to shut stuff down.

Speaker 7 (13:38):
I do.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
I'm very I am very guards.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Have you ever been in a long distance relationship?

Speaker 5 (13:43):
Not in not in a relationship. I've dated someone long
distance before. I think, okay, it was it's great.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
I think for dating. I just don't know about.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I couldn't date you. This is too much, this is
too complicated.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Angela, Angela, have you ever done long distance?

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Were you faithful?

Speaker 5 (14:01):
Like?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Is yeah?

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Okay, So I don't know about the I don't know.
It just seems like I.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Think that it depends on you know how long that
distance is, right, it's harder when it's like cross country
or if it's some ninety day fiance situation where it's
a whole nother country and you know, somebody's trying to
get there k one visa.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
You know what also is challenging with long distance.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
Both people have to be financially okay, because I can't
necessarily deal with somebody that's long distance and they don't
really have money to be traveling like that, and you know,
you have to be.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
So if it's a driving distance, it's okay because then
maybe it's easier to be.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Like, all right, it's a four hour drive.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
I don't even want to do that. I don't even
want to do that. I don't mind.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Basically, you don't want to make an effort.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
Angela.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
I don't like you like a guy twisting my words around.
I know there are people out there that feel like
I understand. There are also people that I love that
love the long I think it could be really fun
long distance. I just don't know about being in a relationship.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
You know, all right, Well, Jason is still single.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Ladies and gentlemen, and this is why that was about
last night, and I'm way more confused than I was
when it was I started this. But we do have
somebody who's long distance. This is my girl, Melissa Butler.
She is the founder of the lip Bar. She's from Detroit.
She lives in LA right now, and she is the
largest black owned beauty brand in Target. Okay, so that

(15:17):
is absolutely major. And if you guys know me, you
know I love the Lipbar products. I have just recently
did an article with The Cut and I actually highlight
one of her products in that article. It's one of
the things that I use is part of my skincare routine.
So get ready for Melissa Butler when we come back.
It's way up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Going way out turnout with Angela Yee.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Butler is here, and you know her from the lip Bar.
I feel like she's a celebrity.

Speaker 11 (15:43):
I am not a celebrity.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yes, I'm so excited to be listen. I'm excited to
have you.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
And I always assume that everybody knows your story, so
I know that's not necessarily true. So I just want
to make sure we give if I ask you, a
couple of questions just for backstory for anybody that may
not know the Melissa Butler's story, when did you found
a lip bar?

Speaker 12 (16:02):
So?

Speaker 13 (16:02):
I started the lipbar we launched in twenty twelve, me
literally making lipstick in my kitchen right I was working
on Wall Street, which.

Speaker 11 (16:11):
Is so wild to say that. It felt like a
dad end.

Speaker 13 (16:14):
Job because everybody is.

Speaker 11 (16:16):
Like, this is the American dream, and that's what I
thought I was living. But I just hated it.

Speaker 13 (16:21):
And I also hated like traditional beauty standards, and that's
what made me say, like.

Speaker 11 (16:25):
I'm gonna start making lipstick in my kitchen.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
And by the way, I mean not just on nobody
or nothing, but she has the largest black owned beauty
brand and Target. You were telling me that, yeah, which
is such a huge deal. And your face and name
is so attached to it also, and sometimes it's a
hard thing. I know, for Jasmine having the Jasmin brand
dot com. What's difficult for you to having your name
on there. She used to tell me. If I could
have changed the name of it, I would. I didn't

(16:49):
know it's going to get still.

Speaker 13 (16:51):
If I would have changed the lip bar name, like
I thought about seven hundred times early on, like I
would have if I could go back and do thatsolutely
would really and I probably wouldn't be the face. Yeah,
but you know, you don't know anything. Everything hindsight is
twenty twenty. So it's like right now, I'm just I'm
super grateful for everything that I've been able to achieve.

(17:12):
But like when I talk to entrepreneurs, I'm like, okay,
choose your own path.

Speaker 11 (17:17):
But these are some of my mistakes.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
All right, So yeah, tell us some of them.

Speaker 13 (17:22):
I mean honestly, like not being focused enough, Like I
think that's the number one mistake all entrepreneurs make. It's
like you want to see the world, you want to
do it all, but you cannot do it all at
one time.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
So that was a mistake that you made.

Speaker 11 (17:35):
Absolutely, it's a mistake that I still make, Okay.

Speaker 13 (17:37):
Like I'm a full plate person, like you know, like
when you add like the buffet and you put everything
on the plate instead of like going back eating what
you're gonna eat, going back and getting seconds.

Speaker 11 (17:48):
No, I feel up that plate to yeah.

Speaker 13 (17:53):
No one, I'm not gonna eat it all and no one,
I don't have capacity to eat it all. And I
think that's how I treat my business too. But it's
because I'm hungry and I'm eager and I'm excited and
I want to do it all.

Speaker 11 (18:02):
But like that's a mistake.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
We're talking to Melissa Butler, the founder of the lip Bar.
I looked at you as a person who the growth
seemed like very organic the way that you well, it
was because we.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Don't have no money.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, so actually have a flagship store in Detroit. And
I saw that you even had like Michelle Obama and
also doctor Joe Biden.

Speaker 13 (18:23):
Yep, so she she came to the store, her and
her granddaughter and they like were legit shopping, like doctor
Joe Biden was so sweet. We worked on a partnership
to register people to vote, and so our number one
best seller in the whole company is a red lipstick.
It's called Boss Lady, and it's because it works on
every single complexion. And so her team from where when

(18:44):
we all vote, they all reached out and was like,
we want to change this to boss Voter, and like
we're gonna get Michelle to wear it, and it was
like it was so epic. It's still like one of
my favorite memories.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
And the other thing that you did that I love
these billboards that you guys put.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
I love those I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Here, Yeah, because it's right actually right near my house
in Detroit. But they was one of this huge billboard
and basically Shark Tank told you to quit. Everybody knows
this story mised wonderful. That made so many people mad.
But what I think about that moment from Shark Tank
is that it made a lot of people side with you.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yes, right.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
It might have been different if he would have been like,
this is great, we want to invest there.

Speaker 13 (19:24):
I agree we all had a common enemy. It was
like what it was like, you can't talk to her
like that. People didn't even know me, and they were
just like coming out of the woolworks supporting me and
showing up. And it is probably the number one thing
that people ask me about. So when we turned ten,
I was like, I want to be a little petty,
because like being like a ten year old business is

(19:46):
a really big deal.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
For people that didn't see that shark tape moment. Can
you kind of briefly explain what happened and how this.

Speaker 13 (19:53):
Was early on in the business. I think maybe like
twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen. We went on the show really
because we wanted to get marketing, but they were so
cruel to us, like they complemented our dresses, said we
shouldn't be in the beauty industry instead, we should like
be in fashion, like just kind of really insulting, honestly.

(20:14):
Then they called us colorful cockroaches. And that's when every
all hill.

Speaker 14 (20:19):
Right, Yeah, the chance is that this is a business
are practically zero. If anybody thought you could sell purple
or green lipstick, they do it.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
They already have the shelf space.

Speaker 14 (20:31):
They just add another color and they would crush you
like the color for cockroaches you are.

Speaker 13 (20:37):
And so we ended up putting up billboard in our
top markets, probably like I don't know, like a seventy
billboard campaign or something like that, and it said ten
years later, ten million units sold or whatever it is,
said like thanks mister Wonderful.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Ten years later, two million units. I think it's yeah, yeah.

Speaker 13 (20:55):
People loved it, and so everybody thinks that like billboards
are like kind of did. But it's like so many
people were posting, so it was such a man, I.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Am so many people.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
And you know, when we had mister Wonderful on the
Breakfast Club, I definitely asked him about it.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
I saw that what he say, what did he say, Angela,
He was.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Just like, you know, congratate. What can you say.

Speaker 14 (21:16):
Yeah, I'm proud of them for taking the heat. I'm
proud that their entrepreneurs is successful. It's a wonderful thing
to see that happen. But they were facing an almost
impossible task because going into the cosmetics industry is so
difficult to get market share. But they pulled it up.
So look, you gotta applaud them, there's no question about it.

Speaker 11 (21:35):
So here's the thing.

Speaker 13 (21:36):
My boyfriend actually is around Mark Cuban sometimes and one
day they're together and he just face times me with
him and he's like remember her, and Marks.

Speaker 11 (21:45):
Like, congratulations, I'm proud of you.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (21:47):
So, like it's been like a full circle moment.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
We're talking to Melissa Butler, the founder of the lip Bar. Now,
where do you see yourself? This has happened in the past,
you know, like you said, it's been what eleven years,
Where do you see yourself?

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Like saying five years from now?

Speaker 13 (22:01):
Honestly, in five years, I better be on a beach
or like in my garden picking avocado off of my trees,
Like I'm moving to the Caribbean.

Speaker 11 (22:11):
Okay, I'll see me for you.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
I was like, I was in Saint Martin.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Right, and the owner he was like, I just love yes,
I was with you yeah, and you called her right,
I did?

Speaker 1 (22:25):
They love you.

Speaker 11 (22:26):
It's it's so sweet, but it was craziest.

Speaker 13 (22:29):
I'm such a private person and when people noticed me, Like,
I am still so flattered. Anytime somebody comes up to
me like, wait.

Speaker 11 (22:36):
Here's the lip barker, I'm like, I'm Melissa.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
What's your name?

Speaker 13 (22:39):
Like flying here today, the flight attendants were like Melissa,
we love your products.

Speaker 11 (22:43):
I'm like, oh, my gods.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
And they also know your name though, because they see
it on the day.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
They're like, oh Melissa, but yeah, yeah, they do that
to you.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
They know you coming girl.

Speaker 13 (22:53):
So it's it's been like a really incredible journey and
I wouldn't change it for the world, Like honestly, I
would and change any part of it because like I've
learned from it in the entire thing, even like all
the mistakes, and it's been a lot of mistakes.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, the mistakes is like education.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, I appreciate you for coming because, like we said, Melissa,
is not often that you have any.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Time, and I know you're only here for a day.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
But honestly, like when you come up here and grace
us with your presence, it means a lot to me,
just because I know there's a lot of entrepreneurs who
admire you, look up to you, and are going to
see this and also learn a lot just from the
things that you told us today.

Speaker 11 (23:28):
Yeah, I'm always willing to share.

Speaker 13 (23:30):
Like if I had people who was educating me early,
like I would be so much further so like if
I can ever, ever, ever, ever do anything to help,
I'm down.

Speaker 11 (23:39):
So thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
All Right, you guys check it out.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
The Red Beauty and the Lip Bar. Its way up
at Angela yee. Melissa Butler and we have yet when
we come back, we have fifty cent and Chelsea Handler.
This was a nice breakup. The two of them still
have some things to say about each other, and uh,
we'll leave it there.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's way up with Angela. Yee.

Speaker 8 (23:58):
This says.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
From Industry Shade to all the gossip out Angela's feeling
that eat.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yes, it is way up at Angela. Yeah am Angela ye.
And Jasmine from the Jasmine brand is here. Angela, I'm back,
You're back, Yes, okay, all right, And don't you love
when a breakup is so good that y'all can still
remain friends afterward and say positive things about each other.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yes, I love it. That's the goal.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
Right.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Well, that's Chelsea Handler and fifty Cent. Now, sure Chelsea
Handler has done her stand up routine, and during that
routine she does reference fifty cent, who is her ex
Here's what she said.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
EUS is not just for homosexual men anymore. Okay, ladies
and gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
It's trending.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
And don't knock it until you try it.

Speaker 7 (24:45):
You might like it.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
It's a big pot follow in the beginning. But when
you warm up to the idea and you've picked the
right candidate, right, call me. You know you're not gonna
like do you lover fiftys up? You want to pick
the right now?

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Fifty posts this and said, yo, she is so crazy.
Chelsea Handler is hands down the funniest Lol.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yeah, it's like a lifelex for him.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a positive thing.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
It's a complimentary.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
You're not going to try that with fifty cent.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
It's all about the candidate.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
If you don't know what she was referencing, google it. Yeah,
google it. I can't say it me neither in this
timeslot to look service. All right, now let's talk about
The Color Purple. Warner Brothers has unveiled the trailer for
the big screen musical adaptation of The Color Purple, starring
Hallie Bailey, Her Fantasia and more.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's going to be good. I'm excited. And it's going
to be in theaters on Christmas Day.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Oh. I like that.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, that's a nice Christmas Day where you got to
go to maybe reserve your tickets now, especially if you
want to go to one of the theaters. I like
where you can relax, sit down and reads, order drink
from your seat. All right, well, here is Fantasia in
the trailer with her beautiful.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Voice to the now it's all kidd.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Oprah and Steven Spielberg have made this into a movie musical.
You can see Danielle Brooks as Sofia Toagi p Henson
it Shug yeah as sug So it's gonna be amazing.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
That's gonna be really good. I can't wait to see Taraji.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
David Allen Greer, isn't it Sierra?

Speaker 11 (26:41):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, so I'm excited.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
Oprah posted something on her Instagram afterwards like she was
shopping for something purple. She's like, where's something purple? When
you go see the movie?

Speaker 11 (26:47):
Guys favorite color.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
And speaking of women, Vin Diezel has confirmed that there's
a women led Fast film among the spinoffs that are
in the works for Fast and Furious. Yes, and he said,
I started developing the female spinoff in twenty seventeen with
other spinoffs, and the sooner I deliver the finale. The
sooner I can launch all the product projects.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
I like that idea.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
H So you know that women Let's spinoff has already
gone into development, so we cannot wait to see that.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
And in more movie and television news, let's talk about
HBO Max right now, HBO Max is turning into just
Max and there's going to be some key changes as
they relaunched with discovery content and also some enhanced features.
That is going to be relaunching, I believe tomorrow, right, yeah, tomorrow,

(27:35):
we'll make it to you as debut. SO Max is
available on the same platforms as HBO Max, but it's
now going to have twice the content, more stable performance
with a new video playback experience, new personalization features, simplified navigation,
a new four K plan. SO there's three different tiers,
two with the same pricing as HBO Max's previous plans.

(27:55):
There's a new premium option that includes four K ultra
HD content and up to four concurrent streams. There's a
more prominent kids experience, so there's a kid's profile for
new subscribers with parental controls. You can limit content by ratings.
There's also a new download experience for offline viewing, expanded profile,
avatar icons, new ad formats and accessibility features.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Cool all right, so get ready for that.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
No MORERIESBO Max is just Max and Paramount Plus with
Showtime is launching in the US next month with.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
More money all right.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Is a price hike, and the standalone Showtime app is
going to be shut down by the end of the year,
so get ready for that too. All these different changes
as these streaming companies are having to streamline streaming. Okay,
all right, Well that is your ut and when we
come back, we have under the radar. These are the
stories that are not necessarily in the front pages, but
they are just as important.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
It's way up at Angela Yee News News.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
This in the news that relates to you. These stories
are flying under the radar.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
All right, is way up at Angela Ye, I'm Angela Yee,
and Jasmine from Jasmine is here, yes, And we're doing
under the radar stories.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
These are very interesting stories that.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
May not have been in the front pages of your
papers and on your phones, but we want to make
sure you know about it.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
All right now.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
This is about a thread on Reddit a woman posted
and she said she knows it sounds awful, but she
said she wants to ask a friend to return her
four hundred dollars baby shower gift because that friend had
a miscarriage. That's so ridiculous, so she wants to know
is she a horrible person for that? She said, Jen

(29:33):
and I are in friend and she said it was
a gift to a long term family friend of her husband.
She said, Jen and I are in friends at all,
but we are friendly when we see each other. When
Jen had our first kid, my husband purchased a fairly
expensive item off her baby shower registry as a gift.
I had no issue with the gift or how much
he spent. It was a nice item to gift her
and we were excited. Fast forward a few years. Jen
and her husband are high earners, both making over six figures.

(29:56):
She announced she was pregnant again very early along and
said my husband her baby shower register. And the user
admitted she thought it was strange for gen to have
a registry and she should still have most of the
items from her first kid, but she went along with
the ask and they spent around four hundred dollars on
the gift. Then she had a traumatic miscarriage, and she
said it was devastating, incredibly sad and while I'm not
close with Jen, my heart hurt for her. Now she

(30:17):
wants to know how to navigate the gift. Do you
ask for it? She said, it's not something that the
woman can use for her older kid. It seems cruel,
but she said, we're decent earners, me and my husband.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Four hundred dollars is still a lot of money.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
Hey, lady, you're awful. You're awful human being. Why would
you why would this even be something you would think about?
Contemplate a question? The lady had a miscarriage, right, and
also if she didn't, even you don't won't you give
a gift?

Speaker 4 (30:41):
That's it?

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, And you know you shouldn't give a gift if
you need to get the money back.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
From the gifts if you.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Can't afford her four hundred dollar gift, which is fine,
get something that's reach.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
You shouldn't have spent that much on it.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, and it's it's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Can you imagine the pain of going through a miscarriage
and then you get it and then somebody's like, hey.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Girl, can I get this gift back? I'm sorry, I'm
my condolences. What can girl?

Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm sorry about what happened? Like, how do you even ask?

Speaker 2 (31:08):
All right, now, let's talk about a lot of kids
are graduating now. Shout out to my god daughter and
my godson also he graduated from Morehouse. Oh beautiful, Yes,
both of my godchildren, yeah, have graduated. And then I
have one who's in spellman. Now those are all the
god children, Okay, And so anyway, let's discuss though. Do
you remember who spoke at your graduation from college?

Speaker 12 (31:29):
No?

Speaker 1 (31:30):
I do not remember me neither. I don't remember either.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
I remember it rained, But the Warner Brothers CEO spoke
at this college right at Boston University's graduation, and Warner
Brothers Discovery CEO David zasliv stood on the podium to
give his speech.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
But you know right now, writers aren't strike.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yes, right after the Writers Guild of America and eight
major studios including Warner Brothers Discovery, failed to negotiate a
new contract.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Now these writers aren't strike.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
And so as the CEO was speaking at Boston University,
the students started booing and chanting, here is that chance,
some people the yelling pay your writers love it, and
some of the students turn their back during his address,

(32:21):
and he actually had to pause because of the pay
your writers chance.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
So how do you feel about that?

Speaker 2 (32:28):
I mean, that's what we want students to do, right
It's a peaceful protest.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah, it's a chance. It's a very specific time. Right now.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
You're the CEO of a company that has been in
the middle of a rider strike, and you're on the
side of not wanting to compensate these writers. Yep, the
way they deserve to be compensated. So you can be
uncomfortable for a little bit. Yeah you'll be okay, Yeah,
you'll be fine.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
All right.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
New York City is had to be sinking at roughly
the same rate as Venice, according to researchers, and so
parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan are slowly sinking due
to its buildings and a rising sea levels. So it's
the weight of the skyscrapers. They said portions of New
York City will sink one to two millimeters a year.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
What do you do about that?

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Stop building? First of all?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah, how do you stop it from sinking?

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Though?

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Because it's what's built already now?

Speaker 4 (33:16):
I don't know actually, and it makes sense. It definitely
makes sense.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Mm hmm, All right, well, we'll see. I mean, you
always got to be thinking about the future too. Even
if we're like, oh, well, who cares, we're all going
to get here? What about the kids and the grandchildren?

Speaker 4 (33:30):
That f why it's eight point five million people live
in NYC. That's a lot of people. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
I feel like we're sinking right now.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
We probably are.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
All right, well, that is you're under the radar now.
We do have the Way of Mixed coming at the
top of the hour. Plus we have id K joining
us on the show today. He has a brand new,
very jazz inspired project that's out right now. I'm also
formula racing inspired and we'll be discussing with him.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
It's way up put Angela Yee just like the Top
like they and Jean like they and Jeal.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Jean, She's it all this is yet way off.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
All right, it is way up with Angela Ye, I'm
Angela yee and Jasmine from the Jasmine.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Brand, his hair on my own brand with that yee
t baby. All right, let's start it off with a
little Dirk.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Now, he has unveiled his almost held track list as
it's getting closer and closer to that release date. It's
twenty one tracks on here, there's eight features. The song
that he put out with J Cole, All My Life,
debut at number two on the Billboard Hot one hundred.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yeah like that song.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
That's a huge deal and it's a great song.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Now, he also did a sit down with DJ Academics
and Academics shared clips from his new off the Record
podcast interview and one of the things that he talked
about is Gonna man told.

Speaker 7 (34:45):
You should have want to know, kept your mouth closed.
If you were red, you were ready.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
And if you wind this clip a little bit, I
looked into the camera.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
I told you if you were read, I hate you.
I love it too.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
All right.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Now, if you guys recall there was this video of
GNNA where he was talking and here's what Gonna had
to say that has people calling him a rat.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
By Sale is a music label in the game, and.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
You have personal knowledge that members are associates. Yosel has
committed crimes and part of.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
The South the game, you were present when law enforcement
officers stopped the vehicle.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
In which you were present along with Jeffrey Williams were
in Hidakota, methem beats and.

Speaker 7 (35:26):
A firearm were recovered. These items did not belong to you.

Speaker 14 (35:31):
Es.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
That was on him taking his plea deal.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
Yes, ma'am, why are you making that face? I'm so
glad I'm not a rapper because I'm telling.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, and I'm so glad I'm not around anything to
tell on, yes, ma'am, All right now.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Coyla Ray has also revealed her sophomore album track list,
and everybody's like, okay, these features.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
The features are featuring very interesting.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
The features include James Brown, Oh Yeah, Saucy Santana, lo Lebrook,
David Ghetto Skill, a Bang is on there too, gigs.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
So people are talking about that.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Some people are saying it's a crazy lineup and they're
very optimistic about it. Other people are like, wtf are
these features?

Speaker 1 (36:10):
OMG?

Speaker 4 (36:11):
It sounds lit.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yeah, it sounds interesting. It makes you want to be like,
I got hear what this is all about.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
I definitely want to hear Saucy and James Brown. All
of them are cool, but I definitely want to hear
from those two.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
I think a little of the book gonna be lit too. Yeah,
all right now.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Future is also reportedly working on Dirty Sprite three dough Boy, who,
by the way, is about to be on lip service.
I posted Dirty Sprite three, so all right, and young
Scooter also wrote it too, and if anybody should know,
they should cool right, all right now. Tom Brady has
reached a deal, and that is to become part owner
of the Las Vegas Raiders. He's one step closer to

(36:48):
going from under center to overseeing a team, and he
has struck a deal with Mark Davis to buy a
piece of the Raiders. So he's been in talks for
weeks about a potential agreement and they said the deal
is now done. According to NFL insider Albert Breyer, can't
wait to hear what that piece is like how much listen?
Imagine going from being there to owning Yeah, a team? Nope,

(37:09):
all right, Conway, the Machine has postponed his won't He
do It Tour?

Speaker 1 (37:14):
And that is all because he broke his leg. Can
you imagine? He said? The results are in.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
I have a fractured rite tibia, dislocated kneecap in the
album of the year though, he said. But in all serious,
is no that anyone who knows me, There's nothing I
love to do more than being up on that stage.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I can't lie.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
I'm super disappointed that I have to postpone that won't
He Do It Tour for a little bit, because I
was really looking forward to going on those stages and
I rocking this for you all live. However, I'm in
good spirits and I'm only looking at it. It's just
a minor, little stepback for a major comeback. No stress,
if you already bought tickets, they'll be honored at the
later dates for sure.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
More updates coming this week.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
That picture of him in the hospital bay with that
leg laid out looks painful.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah, I was saying this the other day.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I've never actually had to have any type of surgery
or be in the hospital overnight.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
I've never no, let me knock on woods, Yes you never.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
Oh that's a blessing.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Yeah, it is a blessing.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
I feel like I just jinxed myself by publicly saying
that no, don't all right, and El cool J has
joined the cast of NCIS Hawaii season three and he's
going to be reprising his well, I kind of felt
like because he kept acting like it wasn't over after
the series finale a CBS NCIS Los Angeles. So looks
like that is happening and that was a surprise for

(38:27):
people as he reprises that role.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
So he is the definition of booked and busy.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, okay, like you said, and you know, I just
recently interviewed him.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
He had no idea how long NCIS was going to
last Los Angeles when he first signed on.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Who knew it was going to go for so many seasons.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
That's nice.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
So that's a nice check to continually have.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
All right, And you know what I want to talk
about when we come back, what we didn't get a
chance to do this here, but I want to talk
about being an organ donor. I'm not even doing a
long distan relationship let alone, let alone or right come
on to somebody who lives out of state. But Jerome
Bettis and Amara Hodge are donating their brains will tell

(39:08):
you about this story. And it's something that they ask
you on your license. I just got my new license.

Speaker 7 (39:13):
You did it.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Will, by the way, thank you forever I had to
get the do you have the real ID?

Speaker 4 (39:17):
I do not have the real ID? Will Will.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Now I'm good.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
But they always ask you if you want to donate
your organs, and that's always something that I'm like, I
know what to check. But we're going to discuss that
when we come back, and you guys let us know
to hit me up at way up with you. I
want to hear how you weigh in on whether or
not you are going to be an organ donor.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yays you back at it? Bring in the back with
Angela is on.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yes, it's a way up at Angela Ye. I'm Angela Ye.
And Jasmine from the Jasmine brand is here. Yes, And
don't worry, we are going to do a deep dive
into this today, so let's get that ready. But Jerome
Bettis and Marrow Hodge are donating their brains to the
University of Pittsburgh's new National Sports Brain Bank. There's a
two pronged mission as a donation registry for former contact
sports athletes and a research resource center for long term

(40:07):
observational studies. They want to study anyone from professional athletes
to recreational athletes who participated in an array of contact sports.
So they're among the first group of professional athletes to
take part in this brain bank.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
And you know, they want to make sure.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
From what they're saying, and this is Jerome Betta speaking,
he wants future generations of athletes to benefit from the
research and from a social perspective, he wants society to
have answers to the cases of neurodegenerative diseases.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
Okay, all right, I never knew there was a national
sports brain bank.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
I mean, think about it, right.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
A lot of people talk about the trauma that athletes
have and what.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Is it called? See what is it called? You know
when they say in football CTE.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Yeah, they talk about ct and the impact that that
has on people. And so it makes sense right now.
I did a deep dive into why become an organ donor? Okay,
because on my license, I am not an organ donor,
nor are you, Jazmine, and I actually feel a little
bad about it, right, And so my girl Maria texted

(41:14):
me as.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
We tease this topic.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Hey, Maria, to let me know that she is indeed
an organ donor. All right, she said, I want to
be cremated, So why not help those who are on
lists awaiting an orgon? Plus a number of people of
color who donate.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Is so low?

Speaker 4 (41:27):
I agree with that.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
How you know what my biggest I'm sorry, Angela, do
you do you want to talk about your deep dive.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
That you did?

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Yeah? So the deep dive.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
As far as why become an organ donor, right, the
reasons why you can help others. People who are an
organ waiting list typically have ND stage organ disease that
significantly impacts their quality of life and maybe near the
end of their life. Receiving an organ can become a
life changing event for those people. Also, the organ waiting
list is always long. People are dying while waiting for

(41:55):
an organ. One organ donor can help multiple people. One
organ donor has the potential to save eight lives.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
Right, So I love I love the idea of using
my organs to benefit and to help someone else live.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
I love the idea.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
However, my fear is, you know, I'm they're working on
my body, they're trying to revive me, and they see, oh,
she's an organ donor and they just like, let her go,
let it go. That's my and I'm I'm sure that's
not that that doesn't happen.

Speaker 4 (42:21):
Well, I'm not sure, but.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
We're not sure of anything. If you've see in the
movie that Serpent in the Rainbow, I have not. Okay,
this is a classic movie and people have referenced this
many times.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
But this is my fear right here. Don't bury me.
I'm not dead.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
I'm scared of that, okay, And I'm just scared that
like they'll take my organs.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
And what if you're dying.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
It's like a big party, and now we can't go
because we don't have our organs. What Angela, Well, we
don't know what happens after we die.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
But what makes you think we need our organs after
we die?

Speaker 1 (42:54):
What makes you think we don't.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
I'm still alive.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
I just don't know what's happening.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
Still, I'm still alive.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Yes, it could be something else happening. And now we
missed the after party.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Angel did not like missing a little.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Now I can't drink because I don't have my kidneys.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Right, No, but I'm just saying I get it though, right,
And it's something that I think about because every time.
And I just renewed my license to get the real
ID and I said in there and it's on the sheet,
like do you want to be an organ donor? And
I paused and I was like, I'm not sure yet.
I said to myself, I definitely want to.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
I just don't. I want you to keep working on
me as long as you can. I want you to.
I don't stop short.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
Of reviving me because I have some organs you need
for you know, a ten year old.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
And it was to say they're not going to just
take them anyway. Yeah, just because I checked this off
in my license.

Speaker 5 (43:48):
Well after I'm gone, Like, if y'all for sure no,
I'm gone, then you could take myself.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Put that in there. Maybe you should put that as
like a dundum.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
Yeah, since I feel like we might be being in sensitive.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Yeah, because there's probably some organ donor, some people who
need organs listening.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Yeah, y'all are jerks. Yeah, sorry.

Speaker 7 (44:08):
We want to.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Encourage people to be organ donors, as we set up
here on this radio on way up at Anti Lea.
I want to encourage people to do it because one
person can save eight lives as an organ donor but
this is an important conversation because people are scared of that.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
I'm terrified.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yeah so, but you know, you can say some lives.
It's a single, selfless act. Register as an organ donor.
I might do it while I'm alive.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
If there's an organ that I could, Oh yeah, yeah,
you need something, you.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
Need anything, I'm cool. No, I'm cool with that. Yeah,
not only anything, angel But I don't want to I don't.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
You don't want my organ?

Speaker 4 (44:42):
No, you drink?

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Forget it. I know you're not talking. I have a drink.

Speaker 7 (44:46):
Girl. All right.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Well, I DK is about to be joining us when
we come back, so make sure y'all tune in for that.
He's got a brand new album out that is amazing.
F sixty five is the name of the album, and
it has a nice jazz feel to it. But he's
an incredible artist, and so id k up next time?
Way Up with Angela Ye, you ride.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Way up with Angela Ye yes?

Speaker 2 (45:12):
In his Way Up with Angela Ye, I'm Angela Yee.
Jasmine from the Jasmine Brand is here.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
I'm here, Angela.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
Do you feel like it's been a good year from
music this year so far? As far as albums that
came out.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
I'm pleased podcast, I'm pleased.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
What I love about this show is that we also
have interviewed like a lot of different people who are
newer artists, you know, more established artists. So I think
that's really dope. And we do have IDK coming on
the show, yep.

Speaker 5 (45:40):
And the thing is when I only have someone, I'm
forced to listen to their album, and mostly I always
like the album, yeah, or their projects or whatever.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
I think we get.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
Really into with like different things at home, like streaming
services and playlists, not listening.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
To whole albums as much.

Speaker 15 (45:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
I was listening to Summer Walker's EP over the weekend.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
Okay, I've heard mixed reactions. I like it, but it
gives erkabad vibes.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Right, Yeah, but she's always been you know, I feel
like they're in the same kind of lane. Yes, And
I know they get along with each other really well too,
So that's a compliment.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
You know which one I've been listening to a lot
of who was up here? Joszy?

Speaker 6 (46:15):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Yes, john Zy's album is amazing Joys. You can tell
as a songwriter how great she is too.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Yeah, Okay, so I have to check out the summer
Walker one.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yes, so I d K is about to join us
when we come back.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
And you know, actually I first knew of him Dan
News that produced is a big fan. Yes, but Jay
Electronica did a song with him at MF Doom.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
That's a and that's a big deal.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
And that song is amazing.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
And so now he has this out and we've been
communicating just based off of this this course that he
teaches at Harvard.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
So he's an intellectual.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
I find all of this fascinating. But we're gonna hear
more from i DK himself when we come back. It's
way up at Angela Yee.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Yeah, she back at it bringing.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Up with Angela ye is on what's up? Its way
up at Angela Ye. I'm Angela Yee.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
And Jasmine from the Jasmine brand dot Com is here
with me and we have id K here.

Speaker 7 (47:07):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (47:08):
This is your first time coming up here. Yes, well,
it feels good to have you on. Congratulations. I think
this is a great time.

Speaker 15 (47:13):
Yeah, yeah, right, now is a great time for sure,
more than ever.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
You also had a course that you teach.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Yeah right, and a music business course, a music business course.
I need more context of that and this is at Harvard, right,
So break.

Speaker 15 (47:28):
That down from this, yes, I I, uh, well, it
came from me being in prison. In the last bid
that I did, I pretty much was able to take
that go to college didn't work out for me. But
from there, you know, I became a rapper, and I
felt like there was a lot of people who may
be able to have that same story, but they don't

(47:49):
have anybody to motivate them. So I was like, man,
maybe if I bring people from prison to Harvard and
do something there for Harvard students, but also give them
the access, it could work out. That didn't turn into
how about I start doing that for other artists, and
then that turned into just people who want to aspire
to be in the music industry in general across the nation.

(48:11):
People of color though, because the thing is, we don't
see ourselves in spaces like Harvard. So the purpose of
that program, one of them is many purposes, but one
of them is to show people that we belong in
these spaces too.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
When you were so, you went to prison when you
were seventeen.

Speaker 7 (48:27):
That was one of the time.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
One of the time you went to jail.

Speaker 7 (48:30):
I went to jail three times. I went to.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Prison once, so it was it robbery or what.

Speaker 15 (48:35):
Yeah, robbery, school school, daily weapon and also like assaulting
like that.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
I can't even picture that.

Speaker 15 (48:44):
By the way, that's what everybody said. That's actually a
good thing.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
It is, right, what are you still.

Speaker 15 (48:51):
There's moments where you'll be able to picture it, depending
on what side of defense you on delivering.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
What were you trying?

Speaker 7 (49:02):
Can I say, I guess.

Speaker 15 (49:05):
It?

Speaker 7 (49:05):
Yeah, it's over.

Speaker 15 (49:06):
But it was like the situation had to do with
musical equipment ironically.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Okay, yeah, makes sense.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
And so you actually decided while you were in prison
that this is what you wanted to do, is be
an artist or did you know before that?

Speaker 15 (49:20):
Well, when I was in prison, yes, I was helping
people get their gd sow was a tutor and it
also was a barber. And in the middle of that,
it became like going out to the yard, putting on
my earphones, listening to what's on the radio, memorizing those beats,
and then just for fun, writing to them. And then
people asked me to rap, so I ended up rapping

(49:40):
for everybody.

Speaker 7 (49:41):
They liked it.

Speaker 15 (49:42):
I figured if I could entertain people in prison, maybe
it'll work if I get out.

Speaker 7 (49:46):
So that's what made me.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Do Right now we are talking to IDK. His album
F sixty five is out now. Isn't it crazy how
your path While at the time it may feel like,
how did this happen to me, it's really a reason.

Speaker 7 (49:59):
Yeah, it's it's definitely a reason.

Speaker 15 (50:01):
And I think that like people always say, like, damn,
you went to prison, Da da da?

Speaker 7 (50:05):
How was that? Like how do you feel about that?
Do you regret it?

Speaker 15 (50:08):
And I'm like, that's like the best thing that happened
in my life, if I'm being honest, because that was
the pivotal change all of the times, but especially the
last time.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Why especially the last time because I.

Speaker 7 (50:19):
Was in prison.

Speaker 15 (50:20):
So I'm in there with people that got twenty years
and like people who really like have been there their
whole life since a teenager and stuff like that. So
I'm really dealing with like the reality that I get
to go home. Some of these people will never get
to go home or anytime soon, you know. So that's
really what it was about.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
How long were you there?

Speaker 15 (50:38):
The last time was seven months. I was supposed to
do a year. I parolled out in seven months.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
So when did you realize that this was actually gonna
work like, so you come home because I know sometimes
you can get out of that situation and not know
what's next, and it can be a lot of obstacles
for you.

Speaker 15 (50:53):
Yeah, it's interesting because when I went to prison, there
was no Instagram. When I got out of Instagram and
everybody's and in the chief Keith posted my first picture.
I got forty likes.

Speaker 7 (51:04):
You got forty?

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Who is liking? Get ready to get caught too?

Speaker 7 (51:10):
Yeah? Right, I don't think you could see who liked
it back then? Though? Was it like that? I always
like that?

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Yeah, I definitely don't remember.

Speaker 7 (51:16):
Yeah, it's evolved so much.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Because it could have been different women who were holding
you down.

Speaker 15 (51:21):
No, no, no, no, it's funny enough. There was only one girl,
my ex girl that used to come visit me.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Did you feel obligated like afterwards? Because you know you
was with me while I was lying?

Speaker 15 (51:33):
Because actually, when I first got locked up on that bed,
she dumped me. She came to the joint to visit
me and dumped me. She became a born again Christian.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Oh see what you did?

Speaker 7 (51:46):
Yeah, Sorr the christ but she turned back to be
after No.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Let's not get it, and now let's talk about this
latest album. I'm sixty five, so what is this Formula
one racing inspira behind this project? And I know that
you're a fan, so.

Speaker 15 (52:04):
Yeah, well I became a fan because of his album.
I didn't know much about F one before that. I
always wanted to make an album where I took the
concept of motorsport and racing to tell the story of
like race, color escape. So F is obviously like from
F one, and sixty five is a year Malcolm X
was assassinated. So it's just me basically taking the conversation

(52:26):
I think he was about to have before he passed
away when he changed, which I felt would be a
more inviting conversation. I'm taking what I thought he was
going to do and putting it in music. So it's
about having a conversation about racial inequality.

Speaker 7 (52:41):
But it's supposed to feel good.

Speaker 15 (52:42):
So the music's supposed to feel good, supposed to make
you party, you know, but then you hear certain things
that I think are important.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Right now, we are talking to IDK. His album F
sixty five is out now, and there's things that you
did with this album that were very organic but created
conversations and of course doing us like Pino Noir, which
everyone loved, right, and Saucy Santana was on it, and
then that turned into a conversation and you did a
post like he just crap, it has something.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
To do with him being gay.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
I just thought Saussy Santana and Saucy appreciated it that
a lot too, because I feel like some artists may
be like, I'm not working with Saucy Santana because.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Then people will think I'm gay, which is ridiculous.

Speaker 15 (53:22):
Yeah, Like, like I said, like, you know, I heard
the song and I thought he made sense for the
type of song it was, and for me, like, that's
like my Champagne ratchet song. So I was thinking about
the ladies when I was putting it together, and.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
We love Saucy.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
Y'all say the ladies love Sauce. It makes sense and I.

Speaker 7 (53:39):
See that more than ever now.

Speaker 15 (53:40):
But and it wasn't until I like really got him
on there then I started thinking, I'm like, I might
be like the first black rapper, male rapper straight to
put it openly gay. Maybe not in the history rap,
but I'm saying with the platform where people would say
something put openly gay rapper on my song. I thought
about it, and I was like, that might actually be

(54:02):
the case. And when I put it out, it kind
of made me feel even more like that was the
case because people were shocked.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
But it does open up to like a whole new
like now you have Saucy's audience, which is a different,
you know, crossover audience for you too.

Speaker 7 (54:15):
For sure. I see them all over my.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Post statement without trying to make a statement.

Speaker 7 (54:21):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 15 (54:22):
I just thought that that was the right person for
that song, and I had to fearlessly just put that together.
And honestly, like, I'm so comfortable with my sexuality that
I really don't care, like, but I could still embrace
somebody that I think is And I liked him his
music before.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
That, so you heard about him from the music before
the material.

Speaker 15 (54:41):
Girl, I found myself singing that, you know what I'm saying,
I'm like, just like, you know, it's cool, like even
the joint this song, like if that come on, like
I'd be like catching myself like, oh.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Like everybody likes you know what I'm saying. No, I
think that's really dope.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
I know a lot of people like Saucy Santana, but
a lot of artists might have been Hesit will have
been hesitant, clearly.

Speaker 5 (55:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (55:07):
People with me definitely like, oh what you're doing, bro,
Like I'm trying to defend you, but you kind of
like it ain't nothing to defend. Just wait till the
song come out. Because I posted like a snippet of
us before they heard the song, so everybody's.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
Like, wait, you know what you were doing?

Speaker 7 (55:21):
Yeah, it was a funny snippet. The dude jumped on
the car.

Speaker 15 (55:26):
Yeah, and I'm like, wait what you know, like you
saw my face or reaction when it happened. It was
just an organic moment. If anybody would have did that,
I would have posted that right.

Speaker 7 (55:37):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Yeah, i DK is joining us and we have more
with him when we come back on Way Up with
Angela Yee.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Yeah, she back at it bringing the Way Up with.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
Angela is on What's Happens Way Up with Angela Yee,
and we are talking to i DK. I know you're
also passionate about the d m V music scene. Yeah, yeah,
of course, so what is that like? Now it's terrible.

Speaker 15 (56:01):
Now nobody, I ain't nobody.

Speaker 7 (56:06):
We gotta get it together, everybody getting locked up.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
You got that rail on here.

Speaker 7 (56:10):
Trail just got out.

Speaker 13 (56:11):
Man.

Speaker 7 (56:11):
We shout out to him, you.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Know, coming up here at some point.

Speaker 15 (56:14):
Chrail, you know, shut out, cute to fool. He got
out two days ago.

Speaker 7 (56:18):
He hit me up.

Speaker 15 (56:19):
You know what I mean, Like, you gotta stay out
of jail. We gotta stay in the studio. Get this money,
you know what I mean. Everybody beefing with each other
and stuff. So I'm in the middle of a lot
of beef because I'm cool with everybody.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Are you?

Speaker 4 (56:29):
Are you trying to be like the peacemaker.

Speaker 7 (56:31):
I'm not trying to be none of that.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
I'm not want to be involved a conversation to it
be a communication.

Speaker 15 (56:38):
No, for me, it's just real, like it's not trying
to do none of that. Like I'm not a like
people probably look at me and say I'm an activist.

Speaker 7 (56:45):
I am not. I'mna say this right now. I am
not an activist.

Speaker 4 (56:47):
Get you do give activists by.

Speaker 7 (56:49):
No, I'm not an activist. I'm just real.

Speaker 15 (56:51):
I'm not trying to be like a positive ro model.
If I am, that's what I am.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
I'm not trying, you know, with that burden of responsibility
where people are. But I feel like the best activism
comes from people who aren't trying to be activists.

Speaker 7 (57:04):
Yeah, because you've got to be real.

Speaker 15 (57:06):
But like, it's not that I don't want the burden
of responsibility, because at the end of the day, like
I'm a grown, grown man, Like, if responsibility comes, I
do what I handle what I got to handle it.
I'm just saying I'm not trying to do it. If
it happens in the midst of me feeling like I'm
being real and honest, then that's what it is. I
would like for people to go in the right direction.

(57:27):
I don't have all the answers, but if I think
I have some of them, I'll tell you.

Speaker 4 (57:30):
So you're not trying to play peacemaker between all this DC.

Speaker 15 (57:34):
I would like to be beef, but I'm not trying to.
I'm just reaching out to people and putting them on
songs or getting them to, you know, send me songs,
or giving them advice, spending time with them whatever I
can to help them better themselves. And beefing with other
people ain't going better.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
Your life, you know, Yeah, because sometimes people put you
in there if they see you do a song with them,
and then you do it song with another person.

Speaker 7 (57:57):
Nobody.

Speaker 15 (57:57):
They don't bring that to me, not with they don't like,
we don't education, we have to know. Don't put me
in none of that. If if you, if I decide
to come around this neighborhood, I might come to your
neighborhood right after. And it's not a problem. If you
don't want to associate with these people, that's on you. You
make your own decisions. But don't bring me in nothing

(58:18):
that I don't got nothing to do with. And that's
people know that with me.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
So right now we are talking to IDK. His album
F sixty five is out now now. One of these classes,
the No Label Academy that we were talking about earlier,
because I know you took a break from it last year,
so it's back this year.

Speaker 7 (58:34):
Yeah, this is the one you're coming to.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Yeah, I know we've been discussing it. I definitely went
to it.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
You're coming to you.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
No I am, I've been told you that.

Speaker 7 (58:41):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Okay, he's just reiterating it. No I am, I am
for sure. I actually I enjoy stuff like that. I
actually at one point thought I would be a teacher.
When I was in college, I was doing the Urban
Education semester and teaching, and it is something I do
want to get back to.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
So I'm excited for it.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
And I love the fact that you made that happen
because I think it's great when people have an idea
that's out of the box and then they really actually
do it.

Speaker 7 (59:04):
Yeah, one hundred's I'm known for that though.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Yeah, I see, I'm.

Speaker 15 (59:07):
Gonna say some crazy I'm gonna do this. Everybody's gonna
be looking at me like all right, yeah right, and
you look up and it's happening.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Like the fact that you were like teaching people and
helping them get their GEDs and prison.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
He was also a barber and then wrapping.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
How did you get your g D and cut your hair?
That's amazing but talented.

Speaker 15 (59:27):
It made that that helped me go a long way
in that prison. Lot of people really really mess that.

Speaker 7 (59:33):
Yeah, mess with me because of that.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
So do you ever go back and visit or plans
to do something.

Speaker 15 (59:37):
I want to bring it remote. I want to bring
my course to the prison that I was locked up
in remotely so they'd be able to take it virtually.

Speaker 7 (59:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (59:46):
Really, that's the big goal. We've been working on it.
So let's see if we get it done.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
All right, well, I d K thank you so much
for coming through. This was fun.

Speaker 7 (59:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
We got to make sure we do this more often,
and I appreciate you so much. An amazing album you guys.
Make sure you check that out right now. F sixty five.
Yes you can speed race and listen to you at
the same time and be conscious not on purpose, yeah, exactly,
and be friends with everybody but not squash no bee right.

(01:00:15):
It's way up and Angela and when we come back, we.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Have ask Yee.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty is a number.
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Yee, whether it's relationship or career advice, Angela's dropping facts.

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This is ask ye.

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Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Heyday, what's up?

Speaker 7 (01:00:46):
Hey? How you doing okay?

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
How are you?

Speaker 6 (01:00:49):
I'm really just fighting fighting a lot right now. But
you know, listening to the radio, it kind of giving
me up, you know, in the morning itself.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Okay, well, what's your what's your question for ask ye.

Speaker 6 (01:01:00):
Is what do you do if you have a racist boss?
In twenty twenty three?

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
All right, thanks?

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Yeah? Tell us what's going on at work?

Speaker 6 (01:01:07):
All right? So, basically I started out as a temp agency.
Was there once a week? I asked him. I was like, okay,
I'm accumulated enough hours. Can I go full time? He
told me to quit the temp agency. I quit, put
in the application, and he told me he was going
to put me in the office. I let him know about,
you know, me having skin diseases and stuff like that.
I'm not supposed to be in the sun. I can't

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use sunscreen. I'm allergic to a whole bunch of stuff.
And so he's like, okay, here, well I'll make sure
I get you inside. So for the past three weeks
I've been working outside wow son.

Speaker 7 (01:01:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
And so I go to the hospital every single day
to get injection wow. And then I do injections at nighttime. Basically,
my sweat glands creates tumors, okay, And so it's so basically,
he is not willing to work with me. And so
when I told him and I showed him, hey, this
is the place where I have to go, this is

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the stuff that I I have, like I'm stage three
or whatever, he shrugged his shoulders and he was like,
I don't I don't care. I don't care nothing about that.
I just want you to make a paycheck. So that
was the first thing that kind of put my eyes
way wider than normal.

Speaker 16 (01:02:14):
Okay, And then a few weeks went in and I
started to getting to know all of the other employees there,
and they ended up telling me that he is a
racist and he just wants to fill up the company.

Speaker 6 (01:02:26):
So today was the day where I was like, I
overheard him say the N word. Yeah, And so that
was kind of like the icing on the top form
you to the point where is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
There anybody above him that you can go to.

Speaker 6 (01:02:41):
He's assistant manager of the place, and there's nobody that's
above him other than corporate.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
I mean, sometimes you have to go to corporate.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
And I also feel like this is something that is
known within the company, right, It's not just you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
Other people have told you.

Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
This exactly, but this is the cherry on the top.
Was he hired a new employee to work inside and
he's not even African, not African, American, not black, not nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
It's trying to feel like slavery, right.

Speaker 6 (01:03:08):
Right, exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
I think it's worthwhile to a you know, consult with
an attorney just so that you have and know your
rights and be to go above him, okay, because you
need to document things. And do you have it in
writing where you told him that you had to work inside.
Is there any type of chain of emails or messages?

Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
Yes, everything is in writing. And we're on camera. Okay,
we work with the police.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
It's okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
So I think that it's important that since you have
this evidence of what the conversation is that you had
with him, of what you told him, and I would
also consult with an attorney, but I would also go
to corporate because sometimes when you go to corporate and
you have this evidence, they also know that they're in
danger of a lawsuit.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
Yeah I lovely, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Against and they have to act, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:04:05):
So I think the only attorney that I can afford
right now is the one that's on my car accidity case.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Is well, there's that, but also understand that some attorneys
will work knowing that you can get you know, you'll
be compensated after because they know it's a short shot.
So I just would definitely, you know, explore those avenues.
Sometimes we talk ourselves out of things because we think
we can't afford it, But there's other avenues, okay, right right,

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And it wouldn't hurt for you to you know, make
sure that are there other people who would be willing
to go on record. But I do feel like consult
with an attorney and also take it to corporate. Both
of those things. Do the attorney first, and then go
to corporate and.

Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
Keep all your documentation.

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
Okay you haven't, I mean, because it's self explaining story.

Speaker 12 (01:04:48):
You walk inside, you see the employees, they wear different clothes,
they're not the same rights. And then you go outside
where you wear their best and everybody's sweating, and then
everybody outside is black.

Speaker 6 (01:04:59):
Everybody out. That's what I'm saying. That's how that's what
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
And now is the time.

Speaker 6 (01:05:05):
Yeah, how is everybody in the office is? You know,
they don't have no melandin on the game, So.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
All right, well, good listen, I'm telling you, so with
an attorney, make sure you have actual numbers, documentation of
who's inside, who's outside, and go to corporate.

Speaker 12 (01:05:20):
Okay, great, God, greatly appreciate your help, you guys, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
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What the word is is the last word on Way
Up with Angela Yee?

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
All right, what's up? Its Way Up with Angela Ye.
I'm here and Jasmine Brand is here. Happy Tuesday, Yes,
Happy Tuesday. It's almost your favorite day, girl, almost, and
it's also Memorial Day. We coming up, so we are
getting ready for that. We're actually gonna go hang out
with Donnelle Rowlings. We're going to be on the road
in Yellow Springs, Ohio. So just making sure that I
get myself ready for that because we got to prepare.

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We actually yellow Springs was where we went during the
pandemic a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
We spent a lot of time. Yeah, we did great time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
We had a great time, stand up comedy. And then
Donelle Land is happening this weekend. This is the second
time he's done it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
I was there.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
You were there too last year ye when he kicked
it off. So it's a really fun time. It's very
family oriented during.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
The day, but at night.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
But at night, but looking forward to that. Thank you
to everybody who stopped by today. Melissa Butler, she is
the founder owner of the Lip Bar, and I really
celebrate her success. She's an amazing person just hearing her
story how she came up with the concept for the
lip Bar and stepped out as an entrepreneur and became

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so successful the largest black owned beauty brand and Target
that is no small fee in major She posted a
video just crying when she saw it, and I'm like, man,
that is an amazing, you know story for somebody who
deserves it so much. So shout out to her. And
now she has the skincare line as well. Can't wait
to try that, yees, so make sure you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
Check that out.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Also, I DK thank you so much for joining us.
His story is incredible.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
He's so smart. Yeah they create it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Smart, but been through a lot of things in his
life and really open and honest.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
Think about it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
He was in jail getting people their ged and teaching
and now he's teaching at Harvard. Yeah, you know, so
we love those stories.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
It makes me feel like I need to do more.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
His project f sixty five is out now and you're
doing a lot Jasmine.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
Okay, thanks Angela.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
You know long distance now, but Jasmine will not do
a long distance relationship. But you guys, we will be
back tomorrow. We'll be back on Wednesday. Y'all be safety
out there, and as usual, you guys get to have
the last word. Eight hundred two nine fifty one fifty
lead those messages.

Speaker 10 (01:07:54):
I would like to the light. I turned the light
on him a couple of days. So it's my sister
team on a bridge. She's still miss means I took
fit for her to contact somebody or somebody that knows
anything about her worryabouts to contact Kylin Locke k y
l n n l oc okay on Facebook. Please thank

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you and Keimna I love you.

Speaker 9 (01:08:16):
My name is need Out Northington Corb and I'm in Memphis, Tennessee,
and I just received my pree well locks. I want
to shout out the Memphis Police Department, as we know
the whole country in the world knows the negative that's
going on, the crime, the cars being stolen. But I
want to shout out our police chiefs CJ. Davis for

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getting out this morning and handing out over a thousand
pre well locks to steering wheel lock y'all, good guy,
keep our cars. Say y'all can't get my whip because
I got a free well lock. Shout out to Meshis
Police Department. CJ. Davis. Thanks Cola k e Ye. I
don't know that I'm really comed of a little.

Speaker 8 (01:08:59):
Drunk up all night like your man joke.

Speaker 7 (01:09:02):
Do you head on?

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
But anyway, that's a whole nother story.

Speaker 6 (01:09:06):
I don't want to talk to my baby.

Speaker 9 (01:09:08):
I've been loving you for a long time.

Speaker 8 (01:09:09):
Because I need love.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
Angelay is way up, the way up.