Going Way Up With Victoria Monét + Tell Us A Secret

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You are now angel what I call ye?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's way up and the until yee on a Friday.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, I'm here and Domino is here.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Day number seven.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
It is not d day five.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Day five. I let you still alive.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
I'll let you get that Day five.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
You gotta still go through Saturday and Sundays, same outfit
because of the bet that you lost.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
A man of my word.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
You are. You don't smell back. You know what you
smell like, you know what's good.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's like you know how when you want to cook
and you have to leave the food in overnight.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Stop playing with me. It's too early in the morning
to be playing with me. Stop playing with me.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
But anyway, it's a Friday. So that's exciting. What you
got going on this weekend?

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Man a lot.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Man, I'm trying to get this video done. I'm just
shooting for like two weeks straight.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
So you are going to change your clothes this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I said, I'm trying to shoot the video. And I said,
nothing about changing my clothes. Say you're wearing this, I said,
I'm shooting the video. I said, nothing about clothes.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I will all right, I'll be watching.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm sure you will.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
I'll bet we'll all be watching.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
If you run in to Mano, just check out his
out and make sure that he is wearing what.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
We've been seeing him in.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Money Dream Money Dreams, Baby Blue with the white Okay, okay,
all right, well, we got a great show for you today.
Victoria Money is going to be joining us. Her tour
sold out in a minute, in a minute, and she's
really amazing. You know her from being on tour before.
We're Ariana Grande Fifth Harmony. She's got a new album

(01:40):
coming out at the end of this month, Jaguar too.
We also, speaking of music, have a world premiere for
y'all today. You know it's a Friday, so it's a
new music Friday. We got Dojah Cat Paint the Town Red. Okay, okay,
you can't do that in that outfit because you're wearing blue.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
But next week, paint the Time red.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
People know.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
I put it on World premiere eight hundred and two
ninety two fifty one fifty.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Shine a light. Who do you want to shine a
light on?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Carl?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's up eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty.
In the meantime, here's that Doja Cat World Premiere. It's
way up at Angela yee up.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
Turn your lights on, y'all. Light it's spreading love to
those who are doing greatness.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Light on, shine the light on.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
It's time to shine a light on them.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes, it's way up at Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee
and new Mano new Mayna.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Day number five, Baby, it's here with me.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
It is kind of Day number four, him wearing the
same outfit.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I'm I did it, I did it.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
But I know you have somebody you want to shine
a light.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
I want to shine a lot of light on my
homies from Detroit Urban Cineplex, Howard and Well. They got
that new movie out right now. It's called a Love
Story from the Streets. It's on Amazon Prime and Toby
they lit it's like the third or fourth movie.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
And even I'm in it.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Let me see what the name of their company again?

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Urban uha.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
All right, I'm looking up right now. I Love Story from.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
The Story from the Streets.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
May It has an eight point six out of ten
rating on IMDb.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
We like that lit and it from the D so
big shout out to them. How it will? You already
know what it is?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
All right, We're going to play a little snippet for
you guys later work we are and you also will
talking about this later.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
But you also did do some improv yesterday.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh yeah, with the class.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Maybe some people can call up and do some improv.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
The other I got another class next week.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Okay, I'm coming another session. All right.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, it's time for you, guys to shine a light
on somebody who was doing something positive, something amazing, somebody
that you want to shout out.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
You see their work.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Out here, you see their moving, and you want to
show them some love. Eight hundred and two ninety two
fifty one fifty A light on them? What is up, tonio?

Speaker 7 (03:52):
Are you doing this or love?

Speaker 4 (03:57):
What's id it?

Speaker 8 (03:58):
Bro? Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:59):
What's good? Who you to shine a light on?

Speaker 4 (04:01):
I want to stand a lot on my boy Maynolds.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh god, so putting.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Up with and wearing the same that's right now, and
being a man of my word?

Speaker 9 (04:11):
Right?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
How are these my shenanigans.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
I listen to every day and you always.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Kick Yeah, I'm the victim, right.

Speaker 8 (04:22):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
All right, Wait till y'all see this too, B movie.
Wait wait till we start playing that?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
All right?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, tonyo, we're going to hang up on you. Thank you,
thank you, bro, I'm alright main tho.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
You know, because you just be hating on my people. Yeah,
man like that you hating.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (04:48):
I'm good?

Speaker 10 (04:48):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'm good? Thank you? Who do you want to shine
a light on my mom? Yeah?

Speaker 11 (04:54):
She does a lot for me.

Speaker 10 (04:55):
You know, I'm a single mom two little girls, and
it's always there to help me, support me through everything
that I go. First, I really appreciate my mom.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh that's dope. Let me tell you something. Having a
mom be there.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
To be able to support you with your kids, you know,
you could trust her.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
The kids love her. That's amazing. Yes it is.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
I'm playing.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
What's her name, Kamelia. Shine a light on you, all right, Jenny,
thank you for calling.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Thank you all right?

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well that was shine a light on him. Eight hundred
two ninety two fifty one fifty. In case you didn't
get through, you can still get through for last word.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
And when we come back, we have your yee tea.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Now, remember a couple of years ago there were eighteen
players indicted and they were accused of a three year
scheme with this health plan thing. Well, one of those people,
who is an ex NBA player, was sentenced will tell
you what his sentence is and what he got charged with.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
It's way up with angela yee.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Just like the chalk like they angela jee like they
angela jee man.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
She's spilling it all.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
This is yeeky way up.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's way up with angela yee. I'm angela yee and meno.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Is he no matter?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
And you don't smell bad at all? Smell good in
the same clothes. Tell him that five days.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Tell him that I smell good.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
I said, you don't smell bad.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
No, but that's not saying I'll smell good.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I have to come back to that in a minute.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I'll smell great, ladies.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
All right, Well it's time for some yet.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Ex NBA player Terrence Williams has been sentenced ten years
in prison, and that is for that five million dollar
health plan fraud. He was one of eighteen players initially
indicted in October of twenty twenty one. He's also going
to get three years of supervised release and he's going
to have to pay a forfeit of six hundred and
fifty thousand dollars and two point five million in restitution.

(06:36):
He did plead guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare and
wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. So he did a
lot of different things, but he is the person they're
saying was the ringleader of it all.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
He was the one running the show.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
He recruited other former players and non medical professionals into this.
They were getting kickbacks of at least three hundred thousand dollars.
At least two other former players have already been sentenced.
One of the players got a thirty month sentence, another
one got twenty four months. Wow, yeah, so ten years
all right? Now, Boozy Badass has reveiled he is taking
anger management classes. So he was on his Instagram and

(07:11):
he was talking about what he learned in his first class.

Speaker 8 (07:16):
Man, I just left anger management.

Speaker 12 (07:17):
Brother, that she was deep founding all what made me
I ain'ngring my expectations. I expect so much our people, Bro,
who never showed me Lloyd to never showed me none
of that, Bro, So I gotta take accountability for that.
Bro's gonna cut a lot of people off.

Speaker 8 (07:34):
Bro.

Speaker 12 (07:35):
My expectations they too high, people, Bro, You know, I
gotta learn to separate the Wow.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
He checked himself in, By the way, nice have you
ever taken anger management.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, did it.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Work for you?

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Absolutely? Look at me, I'm still here, still alive.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
You know what's crazy?

Speaker 2 (07:52):
When I interviewed NBA young Boy, he talked about taking
anger management classes. He had to it was court ordered,
but he said it helped him a lot and there's
certain things that he learned from that.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Then, No, because right, and what you find out is
certain traumas that's been you know, unchecked, Right, certain things
going on in your life that you never really faced
or dealt with, and certain things that you don't even understand, like,
you know, coming from an environment with we thought violence
and aggression was normal, we never you know, knew that.

(08:24):
On the other side that you know, like, that's not
the way you handle.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Problems, right, There's other ways to hand on it before escalated,
stop choking? All right?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
What's that to Boosy for going to anger management and
learning more things about himself?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
All right?

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Ice Spice has been named Billboards R and B Hip
Hop Rookie of the Year.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
So congratulations to her for that. Yeah, well deserved.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
I see people always arguing back and forth on what
she should have what she shouldn't have, But she did
have some huge collaborations and she's accomplished a lot.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, she's all from Munch and that was just last year.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, but she got her own waves, she got her
own sound.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
She got collapsed with Nicki Minas, with Taill the Swift
with her and Pantheres had a big song and she's
still really new.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
So as a rookie, yes, she's done a lot.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, people talk too much. She's dope all right.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Busted Rhymes, we talked about this previously right Men's Health
and the cover story for the fiftieth Anniversary of Hip Hop,
and we discussed fifty cent on the cover, method Man
on the cover. Busted Rhymes is on the cover also,
so it was ludicrous. Now, Bust of Rhymes really did
open up a lot more about his health and wellness journey.
He lost over one hundred pounds and he shared that

(09:31):
because he experienced something that was similar to an asthma
attack while he was being intimate with his now ex wife.
He said, I was having a really difficult time breathing,
so I got up and I walked out of the
bedroom so she wouldn't panic seeing me trying to keep
myself calm.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
I was trying to inhale and it felt like it
wasn't working.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
I felt like I was having an asthma attack, but
I don't have asthma. So I walked out of the
bedroom and went into the living room, and I was
forcing myself to inhale, to relax. And he said it
was clear that he and his then wife were both worried.
And she said, this is not who I fell in
love with. She was looking at his body at the weight,
and she said, You've got to lose this weight.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
This breathing is scaring me.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, it's serious.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
So that's what helped him get onto his journey. Yeah,
losing one hundred pounds. And as we get older, I
think we can all attest to this. We all gain weight.
It's harder to lose it, right, I'm battling, you know
my fight?

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (10:21):
It's obesity, But it's one thing to make sure that
you check it early. I remember I had a high
cholesterol a young age, and I had to really just
fix certain things with my eating habits, diet, right, Yeah,
so that I wouldn't have to have those issues.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Everything about us is about what we eat.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yes, that's a fact. Sometimes even your anger issues have
to deal with.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Your diet is that all.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Stoles Peple always talk about how he became a vegan
and it really helped him with his anger.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Think about it, you're eating these angry animals.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
You might be right?

Speaker 2 (10:52):
All right, Well about last night is what we're doing
when we come back. That was your yet and we're
going to talk about what we got into last night.
But improv for you guys, all right, it's way up
at Angela Yee.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
So about last night, Yes, last night I went down.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
All right, it's way up at Angela Yee. I'm Angela
Yee and Mano is here and it's time for about
last night.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
What we did last night.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
I'm still trying to finish that show from I just
watched finally the episode ten of season two.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Okay, finally what you think?

Speaker 3 (11:25):
It's good? I'm been doing it. Sometimes it gets a
little slow.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Slow because it's like they dragging out what's really happening? Right?
You still keep watching?

Speaker 3 (11:33):
All right?

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Now, let's talk about what you did yesterday though, because
when you left her you said you were going to
an improv class.

Speaker 6 (11:37):
Improv class, because we actually putting together a show. Shout
out to James Dubos for helping me out with James,
and so I had to take these improv classes.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yesterday was day one.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Okay, So what happens in an improv class?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
You just learned certain techniques, you know, thinking fast?

Speaker 3 (11:56):
All right?

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Well I did a deep dive, right, and they have
this improv generator online, and so I'm gonna throw out
some lines and that's how we're gonna start a scene improv, okay,
just to show people how it's done. Y'all can play
along in the car at home. I just cannot get
this thing to work.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Man, hold on, let me try to. Maybe I could do.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
It, okay, I mean, I know, maybe you need to
go to the gas station.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
How much time do I got?

Speaker 3 (12:25):
I don't know, but it's not working now, so it
doesn't matter what you do.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
Maybe, no, No, let me run to the gas station.
Give me a couple of minutes. I'll be right back, okay.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
And how long does a honeypack tape?

Speaker 1 (12:36):
I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
It works very fast, all right, new line. Well, let's
call him up right now?

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Call him?

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, let me get his number, because you said you
was with him yesterday.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
And listen, listen, I told you I was with him
we went out, we had drinks and we ate and
it's no girls with us.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
All right, Well, put him on speaker, call him right now.

Speaker 6 (12:58):
All right, Look, hey, bro, didn't I didn't we go
to Jenner last night?

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah? We went to Chelsea House? Right? Was there any
girls with us?

Speaker 8 (13:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Told you first of all that you led him when
you ask ask those questions.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
You don't know if you ask him, is there any
girls with us? He knows I'm right here.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Listen, But he don't know what's going on.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
So do this all the time. New line. Okay, you
don't look so good.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I don't. I don't. I don't feel like that well either.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
It looks like you've been wearing the scene clothes for days,
and you don't smell so good either.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
But I smell great.

Speaker 11 (13:36):
You know.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I think that part of our relationship is me being
honest with you, right as a friend, somebody about you.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
You don't look good, you don't smell good. I don't
know what's going on.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's because I've been stuck in these clothes for days.
What what? What do you expect?

Speaker 2 (13:53):
And can you try to get at least one good
photo of me?

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Damn?

Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'm trying. I mean, I'm not a real photographer.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
I mean every time you take a picture of me,
it's like from the worst angle. I got a double chin.
You know, you can't take it from underneath. You gotta
take the photo from up here at the lighting right.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
If you want a photographer, hire one. I'm not him.
I'm doing this out of love, out of respect and love.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'm trying.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Mayno, you are so good at this improv. Everybody give
it up for Mano.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yeah, okay, getting busy.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, that was good.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yes, you can't crack a smile. You when I said
you stink.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I was. I'm a method act. I was in a
I was in character.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
That was good. You did good.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
We gotta do some more improv. I can't wait to
come to class next week. Pull up, all right, all right,
well as you know, let's see if Mano can do
this improv where he actually does not judge people. Okay,
because you haven't been good at that, I will tell
you that much.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
But tell us a secret. Tell us a secret's next.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Please do that's where you guys call us, Please do it,
and there's no judgment on our part.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
I don't care what you have to say.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
There's no judgment, pase do no matter what your secret is,
we are not here to tell you you nasty you?

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Is you that?

Speaker 9 (15:10):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Anything you want to share with us, we're here, Get
it out there, put it in the atmosphere. Get that
burden off of you. Eight hundred two ninety two fifty
one fifty is a number. You are anonymous, tell.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
Us your secrets so you can tell us anything, and
you can tell us who you are too.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, we got to get something. We should get mayno
to do some improv with people. That was good.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, pull up and do some improv with me.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Okay, what's up? Why not to say what's up? I
don't know what Dan is doing. He's just stating waving
his hands in the air. But eight hundred two nine
two fifty one fifty is a number. Call us up,
tell us a secret. It's way up at angela yee.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
This is a judgment free zone. Tell us a secret.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yes, it's way up at angela yee. I'm angela yee.
Mano is here no mana no, mayno. And you know
we've been doing improv off the uh, off the air
all morning and right now. The improv you have to
do is to not judge anyone may know.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Man not keep it real, okay, And I'm gonna continue
to keep it real.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Well, listen, you gotta let people get off there secrets, no, no,
and then after that you can keep it real.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Nope.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
All right, But the whole point of this is for
people to be able to share tell us a secret,
feel like they're.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Not getting judged. I'm going to talk to.

Speaker 9 (16:18):
You all right.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Well, let's see if there's any legends. What qualify somebody
as a legend.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
When they put it all together?

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh one, eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty
is a number. Again, this is a no judgment zone,
and we love when you guys call up and feel
comfortable enough to share any type of secret that you
want with us. All right, and again you get to
remain anonymous, so hopefully nobody recognizes your voice, if you
know what I'm saying. But we've had all kinds of
really great secrets up here. Some of them are good,
some of them are things that I cannot judge. Eight

(16:49):
hundred and two ninet two fifty one fifty is a number.
Tell us a secret. Hello, anonymous caller, how are you today?
And what is your secret?

Speaker 10 (16:56):
My secret is I got pregnant living with my boyfriend,
but the baby wasn't his.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh, so you got pregnantized I had.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
I had to go get an abortion and told him
I had in this carriage.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
But she was You was sleeping with somebody else?

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yes, I was sleeping with my exes.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
How do you know whose baby it was?

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Though, because when the doctor told me, I could see
if I didn't have sex with my boyfriend a running
time because I just found out he was cheating. Oh okay,
so y'all had a taking a little break and then
you told them you had a miscarriage but it was
an abortion.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Yeah, yeah, correct.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Okay, are you still with your boyfriend?

Speaker 8 (17:34):
No nope, I left him.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
I left him in twenty twenty two. Okay, why you
love him?

Speaker 4 (17:39):
Because I just couldn't do it no more.

Speaker 10 (17:41):
And I felt like if he would have found out
that the baby mother moves, I'd have been a dead woman.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
You know what, I could tell that relationship was doing
just from this secret that you had.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
So, yeah, you know you're.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Still sleeping with the other guy? No nope?

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Okay, Well think he knew.

Speaker 10 (17:58):
He knew that I was pregnant, He knew that with
his baby, and I told him I had a miscarriage
as well.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Damn you. So you never told anybody this before?

Speaker 1 (18:06):
No, I didn't. Now who are you sleeping with?

Speaker 8 (18:08):
Now?

Speaker 1 (18:09):
I'm sleeping with my friends with your friend?

Speaker 10 (18:13):
Yeah, you're just a friend, nothing more than nothing less.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
That's okay, all right? Well, thank you for sharing. No judgment.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
So I'm not getting pregnant.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
She's like I learned my lesson.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Yes I did.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, y'all not using condoms though, right?

Speaker 10 (18:26):
Well me and my friend, no, we are, Yes we
are because we're not committed.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
So I don't know who he said that sex with.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
So yes we are okay, all right, Well, thank you
for sharing with.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Us, no problem, Thank you for allowing.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Me no problem. Hello Anonymus, Colin, how are you?

Speaker 10 (18:42):
I'm good?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
All right, Well, NATO's here, I'm here. We're not here
to judge you.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
But do you want to tell us a secret?

Speaker 8 (18:50):
Sure? Why not?

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Okay?

Speaker 8 (18:52):
So, being my wife, just what, we've been together about
ten years and now I'm dating someone half my age.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
As in how old? Twenty twenty years old?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Twenty he said, twenty and then one? Which which one?

Speaker 11 (19:08):
Is it?

Speaker 8 (19:09):
Twenty one?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Twenty one?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Okay? You just want to make sure she's old enough
to go to a.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Bar at least go buy me a beer.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
All right, Well, how's that going for you? You're enjoying yourself?

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh, I'm living.

Speaker 8 (19:20):
YEA. Was just talking about honey packs, so I'm living.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh you want them honey pocks?

Speaker 8 (19:27):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (19:28):
All right?

Speaker 2 (19:29):
I mean, hey, look, no harm, no foul. He's been
through a long relationship or break up. Now you're back
in the streets.

Speaker 8 (19:35):
Oh oh, she's back on the shadle.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Whoa, Let me tell you? Do you do you think
this could be something serious or are you just having fun?

Speaker 8 (19:45):
Is just having fun?

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Okay? All right, there's nothing wrong with that. Enjoy yourself.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Thank you, Thank you?

Speaker 3 (19:50):
You hanging on a miss caller? How are you?

Speaker 6 (19:52):
What was going on?

Speaker 3 (19:54):
What's app You want to tell us a secret?

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Being in a relationship with all three of my big
Mama's flight to past.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
A year, all three of them, and they haven't cut you.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Nah?

Speaker 7 (20:04):
Nice if you're hard trying to jug between your house
the house and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
But but you're doing it though, right, Yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
I be maintaining though.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
But feel good.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Let somebody know what's going on.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
That's right, This sounds stressful.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, yep, for it.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
It is.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
It's like a triple life.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
You got it, though, bro, I feel like you got it.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Like, what do you have time to go to work?

Speaker 1 (20:26):
That is work?

Speaker 4 (20:27):
I'm here now.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
One more thing. Do you have a favorite?

Speaker 5 (20:32):
I got one ride around with more than the other stuff.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Okay, so you do have a favorite? Would you leave
everybody for her?

Speaker 8 (20:38):
Or no? No?

Speaker 1 (20:39):
I love all?

Speaker 6 (20:40):
Well, you love all three of them to say, I'm
gonna tell you how you really step into legend status.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
You bring all three of them on the one household.
That's how you really do it. That's how you really
do it. Bro.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Do they get along with each other?

Speaker 7 (20:53):
I don't know how they could be in their fighting
white animals.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Okay, so they don't get along with each other. Nah,
And you haven't got caught in six or seven years.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Nah, that's amazing. All right, Well, thank you for sharing.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Aye ya y'all be good?

Speaker 1 (21:08):
You too, you'd be bad?

Speaker 3 (21:10):
All right?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Well, that was tell us a secret. And when we
come back, we have your yee t and we'll be
discussing Kim Kardashian. She is now advocating for c murder.
We'll tell you more details. It's way up at Angela yee.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
Yn't she about to blow the lead ab off this pot?

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Let's get it?

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Oh yeah, angelus feeling that yet.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Come and get the tea?

Speaker 3 (21:28):
What's up his way up at Angela?

Speaker 11 (21:29):
Yee?

Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm Angela yee hey. Yes, and Mano is here? Thank
you for that?

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yes, indeed?

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Ah, And let's get into some yet now.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Kim Kardashian is advocating for c murder Corey Miller masterpiece Brother.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
He's been in jail since two thousand and two.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
He's serving a life sentence for second degree murder, and
Kim Kardashian posted Corey Miller has been twenty one years
in prison for a crime he did not commit, and
his conviction is based entirely on the testimony of two
men whom the state actor trial just material witness warrants.
Those men have now sworn that their prior testimony was untrue.
There is no remaining evidence that even suggests that Corey

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Miller is any more culpable than the hundreds of patrons
who were at the Platinum Club on January twelve, two
thousand and two, when Steve Thomas was tragically shot. So
we'll see if there's gonna be some motion.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Ye. They've been working on him for a minute.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
I mean, he had a second trial. His attorney attempted
to withdraw and complained he had not been paid in years.
A new judge refused to allow counsel to withdraw, and
he had a second time in court with an attorney
who made no effort to call favorable witnesses to testify.
So I hope you get out, yes, yeah, I mean
imagine that the original people who run you in jail

(22:46):
now testified, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Every candidate's statements instead that they was lying, and you.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Still can't get out. That's crazy, all right?

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now?

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Will Smith sat down with Kevin Hart on his Peacock
Talk series Heart to Hearts, and this interview actually came
out yesterday, and he talked about how Will Smith actually
decided to start in Men in Black because originally he
didn't want to do it.

Speaker 11 (23:11):
But I didn't want to make Men in Black. That
was the next year after Independence Day, so I didn't
want to make two alien movies.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Back to back. How did they convince you?

Speaker 11 (23:19):
Steven Spielberg sent a helicopter for me. I was in
there talk to you to talk, talk to talk, like
it landed at his house and he had me a hello.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
No one's ever done that for me since the helicopter.

Speaker 6 (23:33):
Nobody said the helicopter for you. No, you got there
and honored you. No, never named after you.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
You think if you were reluctant to do something, and
then some when Steven Spielberg sends a helicopter and then
you land at his house, you're like, I'm in.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
It had to be more than that, No, you think,
so it had to be. Maybe it was the talk.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
And it's also Stephen Spielberg, right right.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
I get it, I understand, but it had to be
more to it. It wasn't just the helicopter.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
And you know, he just also talks about a lot
of things that he didn't want to do. He said
he didn't want to make Pursuit of Happiness, he didn't
want to make Ali and all of.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Those he didn't want to make Ali.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, he said it.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
He said he didn't want to do it. But he
said his longtime business partner and film producer James Lassiter,
is the person who actually had an eye for what
are the things that he should be doing, and so
he paid attention to him. He said in the Heyday,
the ten movies I made at the top of my career.
He said that James Lassider was the person who was
choosing the films.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
So those are the so most of those movies that
he didn't want to make on the movies that really
were big and hitting.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
And the other thing I'm seeing from this is how
important your team is, right the people around you are
helping make these decisions and getting because sometimes you can't
see it right all right now, speaking of making decisions
and TV, some reality stars are now saying that they
are alleging that they have been tormented by some of

(24:54):
these networks. So they are now saying NBC and Bravo
in particular are responsible. And according to this letter that
was sent by attorneys Brian Friedman and Mark Garrigos to NBC,
they're talking about deliberate attempts to manufacture mental instability by
applying cast members with alcohol while depriving them of food
and sleep, denying mental health treatment to cast members displaying

(25:15):
obvious and alarming signs of mental deterioration, exploiting minors for
uncompensated and sometimes long term appearances on NBC reality TV shows,
distributing and are condoning the distribution of non consensual pornography,
covering up acts of sexual violence, and refusing to allow
cast members the freedom to leave their shows even under
dire circumstances. Wow, well listen, if these things are true

(25:39):
and they can prove it, then yes, cause you know
they definitely when you're filming a reality show, you've been
on some.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, I was on a.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Few, a couple of them. Yes, indeed I tried to
ambush me on one of I didn't.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
I would never do such. No, I did not.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
But yes, So we'll be following this because this is
the same thing Bethany Frankel's been talking about.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
She's been calling for.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Reality stars to unionize, right, and Nini's also discussed some
of the things that went on with her behind the
scenes with Bravo or Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
So we will keep you updated.

Speaker 13 (26:16):
Now.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
That was your yet when we come back, we have
under the radar. These are the stories that are not
necessarily in the front pages of the news, but we
feel that they're important and that you should know about
them anyway. So that was your ut. When we come
back under the radar, it's way up with Angela yee.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
The news news.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
This in the news that relates to you. These stories
are flying under the radar.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
All right, it's way up. But Angela yee, I'm Angela yee,
and Mano is here.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Day five?

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Whi day five?

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Okay, and let's get into some of these under the
radar stories. You may not have seen them on the
news in the front page, but they are important regardless.
Bo Jangles, they are going to be opening up thirty
new restaurants. So I've never had Bojangles, okay, enjoyable, Yeah,
but it's mostly in the South, right, they have eight
hundred restaurants in fifteen states. So they did announce they're

(27:06):
going to open thirty new locations in the West, so
twenty locations will be in Vegas and then ten additional
across Western markets.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
So more opportunities to try it, all right.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
And Mattel is considering a nationwide job search right now.
They're looking for a chief Uno player. And you know
how much you get paid?

Speaker 1 (27:27):
How much?

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Two hundred and seventy seven dollars an hour. That's a
good amount of pay. So what they want to do
is promote the release of their new game, Uno Quatro.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
How many hours in a day.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
About four hundred and forty four dollars a week for
four weeks. So it's only for four weeks, and you'll
have to play Uno Quatro with strangers in New York
City and also create social media content featuring the new game.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
So Uno Quatro, what is that game? Well, it's a
new version of.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Buno and it combines connecting four toiles in a row
connect four with the classic Uno game of matching numbers
and colors. It sounds complicated to me, but the chief
Uno player is going to teach players to play the
game and participate in live streams and interviews. So if
you're over the age of eighteen and a US citizen,
you can apply. You just have to be able to

(28:16):
sit for long periods of time and carry fifteen pounds
or more because you'll have to move the tent that
you have to set up to play.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Oh wow, you.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Know two seventy seven does sound like that much? Now,
after I told you all that you got to create content,
post content, teach other people, carry a tent. All of
this a bit much, all right? And Donald Trump has
pleaded not guilty, as we knew he would, to charges
that he broke the law by trying to overturn the
twenty twenty election. As you guys know, he was arranged
on an indictment charging him with conspiracy to defraud the

(28:48):
United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding obstruction, and
conspiracy against the rights to vote and to have ones
vote counted. When asked for his plea, he stood and
said not guilty to all of the counts. Now, you know,
he was in DC and he had some things to
say about Washington, DC.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Here's what he said.

Speaker 13 (29:05):
This is a very sad day for America. And it
was also very sad driving through Washington, DC and seeing
the filth and the decay.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
This is not the place that I left.

Speaker 13 (29:17):
It's a very sad thing to see it when you
look at what's happening. This is a persecution of a
political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in America.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
I laugh every time I hear him talk.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, well, hopefully he don't laugh his way back into
the White House, because you know, I think, yeah, you
got to take these things seriously. And the fact that
he's being charged with four criminal counts, and the fact
that people's lives were in danger and now some of
those people got to sit next to the very same
people who endangered them. Is crazy. And that you can
run for president again. I don't even understand this.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
I thought just getting arrested alone a forfeit that their
right to be president.

Speaker 8 (29:57):
Right.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
There's a lot of places you can't work, but you
can't be the president all right.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
And Florida has effectively banned ap psychology and in that.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Whole entire state.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
They said that teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and
gender identity is a legal understate law, so as you
guys know. In June, the College Board reported that it
was asked by the Florida Department of Education to potentially
modify its courses to suit Florida law. But there is
no way for people to be able to teach psychology
without addressing things like gender and any type of sex content.

(30:32):
And they said, understanding human sexuality is fundamental to psychology,
and an advanced placement course that excludes the decades of
science studying sexual orientation and gender identity would deprive students
of knowledge they will need to succeed in their studies
in high school and beyond. So they didn't ban the course,
but what they're saying is that you can't teach the
things that.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Are part of that course. It makes absolutely no sense
to me.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
How do you teach psychology and just ignore that as
just a way of trying to erase people's existence. All right, well,
that is you're under the radar again. Those are the
stories that may not be in the front pages. But
we want to make sure that you guys know what's
going on in the world. And we do have the
Way Up Mix. It to Friday. You know that means
it's new music out today too. That's why we love Friday.

(31:15):
So the Way Up Mix is coming at the top
of the hour. Plus my girl Victoria Money is gonna
be joining us. I know Victoria Monee for a really
long time since her first album came out, and that
was like a decade ago.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
So shout out to Victoria.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Money to see all of the things that she's accomplished,
selling out tours in one minute. But she's gonna be
joining us for Way Up with Angela yee. But let's
get into that Way It Mix at the top of
the hour. Let's go, they say in the rooms.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
From Industry Shade to all of gos' out send Angela's
speeling that eet.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
All right, it's way up with Angela. Ye, I'm Angela yee.
And Maino is here Mana Day number five, Happy Friday.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, you gotta hoodie on again. Over your clothes, men, it's.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
A little cold in here.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
As in day five. If you don't know, Mano loss
to bet and has to wear the same.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Claes kept my word though, that's the that's the key
to the whole thing. Pitch kept my word.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
All right.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Well, let's get into some yeat tea. First off, let's
talk about an update of what's going on with Jonathan
Major's and his trial now. According to Dennis Byron, who
is the editor in chief of Hip Hop Inquirer and
also a reporter and a journalist, he said update, Hollywood
actor Jonathan Major's arrived to New York Criminal Court today
for trial, only to learn that prosecutors aren't ready to

(32:30):
present their case. The problem is that his accuser has
fled the country and NYPD is looking to charge her
with assault. His girlfriend, Meghan Good was by his side
during the brief appearance. If his accused it doesn't appear
in court on September sixth, it's my guess the case
will be put in the dumpster.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh wow, that's good for him though.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, for him. That's the one thing I think.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
If you know you have to go to court against somebody,
you just pray the other person doesn't show up.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
The only reason I know that is from all of
these tickets. Usually the cops show up.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Usually when they live, they don't show up, and it.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Gets you know, right well, who knows what it is
behind the scenes, but we know according to Dennis Byron,
that's what's happening.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Now.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
All right, Now, let's discuss Tamar Braxton on Distination. She
talked about Braxton Family Values not being quite on the
level of a keeping up with the Kardashians at all,
and how much the Kardashians were getting paid. A lot
of people will tell you they thought that, you know,
Braxton Family Values was more entertaining and things that they
had going on. They had great ratings at times their

(33:29):
ratings were even better. Really right, And here's what Tamar
had to say.

Speaker 9 (33:33):
I created Braxton Family Values and Kim Kardashian got one
hundred million dollar check.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Let's talk about that.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
So we're not even gonna tell you what television creating
TV shows and who.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Deserve what when?

Speaker 3 (33:44):
It is unfair point blank?

Speaker 6 (33:45):
And the period Hollywood is racing and they will cut
you to a harder.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Game of football.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
It is also women to Die, Come Back White.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
But she has said this, she's on Dination. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
So and here's the thing, right, she's been said this
that they make seventy five percent less than the Kardashians,
you know. So yeah, and that show was definitely a hit.
But I think we all know what it is, all right.
Serena Williams, speaking of shows, is launching her new kids
show that's inspired by her daughter's doll dance.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
It's called Dance with qua Quay. All right.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
That's her daughter, Olympia's favorite doll, qua Quai. And I
actually was showing this to you. Yeah, it's a doll,
and the doll is teaching people how to do these
little dances like the waved high five.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Okay, so here is a little piece of what that
sounds like.

Speaker 6 (34:39):
Get up, everybody, So I'm to dance with Quai Quay
summer style.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Do you like the beach when I go?

Speaker 14 (34:47):
Here are three summer style dance moves.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
All right, so you can see all of that now.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
The first episode of Dance with Quaiquai is available on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
That's cute.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
I did right this idea.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
My daughter has like a blanket and she kept all
her life.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
You know I do too.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
It's called night Night.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Mine is called may Mae.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
I still have to do.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
These double words.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
You still have that same blanket? Yeah, sleeping in bed now? Really?

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Yeah? I can't sleep without it.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, and so okay, so we have night Night, we
have may Mae, and we have Quake.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Kway. I guess as kids, you just like to double it.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Up the adventures of Night Night, right, Like, oh you
stink stink in that outfit?

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Who's that?

Speaker 3 (35:30):
I was just making up?

Speaker 1 (35:31):
No, but who you're talking about?

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Nobody?

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Damn talking about me? Stop playing with me?

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Okay, but yeah, so you guys can check out Dance
a Quake Cray. Oh look, I know you love this
show just as much as I do. May know that
The Office, I know The Office?

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Do you watch that? Did you?

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah? I used to watch that a little bit.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Okay, So you know Stanley, the black guy on the
Office there was okay, so he was trying to do
this Stanley spinoff, and he did this whole GoFundMe kickstart
a campaign to create a spin off, and he was
had a crowdfunding goal of three hundred thousand dollars. It
was going to center around Stanley as he comes out
of his retirement in Florida and goes to la to
help his nephew save a fledgling motorcycle flower shop business.

(36:09):
He actually did raise more than that money, but unfortunately
the show had not gotten made ever. This was back
in twenty twenty that he started it, but then COVID hit, right,
so that put a delay on things, and then now
there's this, yeah, this strike, so he's giving everybody back
their money. He was like, he does still intend to
do it, but he I guess people were questioning what happened.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
You know, I gave to this campaign and it hasn't happened.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
So he said, in light of the current economic situation,
we felt it was the best course of action. You'll
get a message notifying you of your refund as soon
as it is issued, and you can expect to receive
it over the following weeks. Right, yeah, so you know
that's unfortunate though, when you have a situation that was
probably the worst time to start it in twenty twenty,
then the pandemic and now this so a lot of

(36:53):
things happen made this.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
May last longer than the pandemic.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Yeah, we don't know how long this is going to last.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
All right, all right, well that is your yeete, and
you know it's a Friday, so we do kind of
have an extended thing that we do today. We're going
to talk about new music right on a Friday. What
news music is out today? New albums, new singles, things
we've been debuting things and world premiering things up here today,
Doja cat Usure has new music out? Will tell you
who else is out today on a new music Friday.

(37:21):
It's way up with Angela yee.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (37:28):
It is way up with Angela yee. I'm Angela Yee.
And Jazmine Brand is here yes, and Victoria Monette is here.
I'm so excited. Well, first of all, we have something
for you, Yes.

Speaker 9 (37:37):
We do, of course we do.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
We got some don pa want to celebrate a sold
out tour in one minute? Also, all the success that
you've been having, Angela, she reacted, You know.

Speaker 9 (37:49):
She would thank you so much?

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Shall we?

Speaker 12 (37:53):
Cheers?

Speaker 10 (37:54):
Cheers?

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Cheers?

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Ers?

Speaker 2 (37:56):
I love this this is how we get it started. No,
but I mean, and let's get into it though, because
he little you're doing headlining tour and that's what they
really are toasting too. And it's so that in like
a minute, for real, like how did you feel when
that happened?

Speaker 3 (38:11):
And did you know that was going to happen?

Speaker 9 (38:12):
I did not know that was going to happen. So
what we did was every show went on sale locally
at ten am. So as they were selling out, my
manager was calling me from like so it's like Atlanta
show all the way to the West coast, like okay,
this sold out. This sold out, the tickets are gone,
And it was just surreal but very affirming to know
that people really, if you give them the opportunity, they'll

(38:34):
they'll support you. Cause I see on Twitter people are
always like you're underrated, and it's like different when people
are just tweeting and talking right versus when they actually
show up for you, and like.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
And I think that even just everything you've done before this,
because you know, obviously I've been following your career friend time,
and I've been seeing and.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Here's a fun fact that people may not know.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
At one point t I tried to sign her, and
I remember that he wanted to like put her underneath
his label, you know, and can you tell us.

Speaker 14 (39:01):
About that, because I didn't know that.

Speaker 9 (39:02):
I used to be signed to Atlantic Records, and I
feel like maybe that's how we connected. That's how we connected.
And I was doing a lot of demos, like hook demos,
because I had looked at Bruno Mars and Bob and
how that song did so well, and then Bruno was
able to take that record and make his own career.
So I was like, I'm gonna just spend a bunch
of time just doing hooks. So I was just writing

(39:23):
hooks only I would just not waste any time with
the verse, just hooks. And Atlantic had a lot of rappers,
and so I was submitting a bunch of hooks and
I would try to sing them well enough that maybe
some rappers will keep me on the hooks. So this
is why what started like the hook era for me.
So I ended up being with Nas on a song
with Nas and Ti and I wrote song for Meek
Mill and Mary J just like a hook era for

(39:44):
me MGK as well. So Ti and I were collaborating
a lot with Tommy Brown, at the time, and so
he was kind of showing me the ropes. He let
me do a couple of shows with him singing the
hooks that I was a part of, and he offered
to sign me. I always felt like it just wasn't
the right time for me to be signed to anybody.
And I also thought of myself, like, if I'm going

(40:05):
to be signed right now, I'd like to do it
myself and like have my own little in print or something. Okay,
So I just wanted to just wait it out a
little bit more.

Speaker 14 (40:13):
But he's really confident to wait it out and know it.
Be really sure of yourself.

Speaker 9 (40:18):
Definitely.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
I just had a vision, and I can't imagine that
there weren't a lot of other artists who try to
reach out to you during that time. I mean, you
did write for Dirty Money.

Speaker 9 (40:26):
Yeah, that was my first placement ever.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
That was what song?

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Was it?

Speaker 9 (40:29):
I Hate That You Loved Me?

Speaker 3 (40:31):
I like that song?

Speaker 10 (40:34):
Surprise like that?

Speaker 14 (40:38):
That was your first.

Speaker 9 (40:38):
Placement, first one ever.

Speaker 14 (40:40):
Did you work directly with Diddy on that particular song?
Are you no submitted it or what was that process
like that?

Speaker 9 (40:46):
It was Actually he was working with Rodney a lot
on the album and so I actually got to work
with the Sean Daniels on the record, but it was
like kind of like he was visiting Rodney's camp to
get a collection of records and that was one of
the ones he kept for the album. So I saw
him in passing. We didn't get to work. I don't
know that I would be able to, like at that
moment in my career, like stand in a room with

(41:06):
Diddy and be confident enough to sing to sing any
idea that I had. So I'm glad that a little
bit right separate.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
All right, we are talking to Victoria Monet. And then
you also went on tour, and I feel like this
is part of what made you such a great performer
that you are today, because you're known for that too.
I see people post clips all the time of your performances.
But you've been on the road and opened for a
lot of people too, And so who are some of
the people that you worked with on the road.

Speaker 9 (41:32):
Okay, my very first tour ever, I opened for Eric Bellinger.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Oh we like him. We've been hearing a lot of
Eric Bellinger.

Speaker 9 (41:40):
Him, he's so talented. And then my next tour opened
for Fifth Harmony, and after that I opened for Ariana Gan.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
I mean, yeah, every people also know you and they
affiliate you with Ariana Grande because you've written, you know,
with her a lot and obviously been on tour and
you guys are such good friends.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
How did y'all get so tight? For real?

Speaker 9 (42:00):
We spent a lot of time together. I think the
first time I remember being becoming close and having deeper
conversations than just you know, in a song space was
on a the tour before I opened for her. I
came to a show I think it was in Pittsburgh
and she was like, she's just very friendly, and she's like,
why don't you guys just come to the next show
or just hop on the bus and stay. And so

(42:22):
we just started talking more and just about other things
outside of music, and we were like, yeah, I really
love that. Yeah, this is my girl. So it just
grew and grew, and the more that we hung out,
the less times it would be just for music and
more friendship stuff. And so just so thankful to have
a friend that had has so much experience that I
was just able to see a lot of up close

(42:43):
and behind the scenes of how things work.

Speaker 14 (42:45):
And just learn a lot what's the biggest thing you
learned or those important thing you learned by working with
her or being friends with her.

Speaker 9 (42:51):
She has a really great ability to be a boss
but also just be kind. And you're an only child, right, Yeah,
I was born an only child, but I've discovered I've
met my dad in my twenties, and I discovered that
I have a sister, So I'm not only.

Speaker 14 (43:05):
Tell have you met her?

Speaker 9 (43:07):
Yes, I was beautiful, really hard at first because it's
new information, where Like she was surprised, and it was
just a whole thing.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
You know, y'all know my sister.

Speaker 9 (43:20):
You know what, when we met, no one was checking.
So it's kind of like we've grown together, and so
she's super supportive and it's a lovely sisterhood even though
she lives in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
And you also went to a performing arts school.

Speaker 9 (43:31):
Right, Yes, I begged my mom to go. I literally
we didn't live in the district. She bought five acres
of property, so we lived on like a little modular home,
but on this big land. But it was far away
from my school, so I had to beg my mom
to use someone else's address in order to go to
my performing school. She lived down she rode for me. So, yes,

(43:53):
I returned high school.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Yeah, everything worked out, it did, you know?

Speaker 9 (43:57):
But also my mom, I went to performing our school,
but she made me play golf my freshman year. She
thought I could get a scholarship because I was black
and nobody was playing golf. I was like, so freshman year,
I was like, they're holding a golf golf bag. People
were like, look at Tager was sister. I was like, no, please,
let me just dance.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Literally she was, but she was listen. She just thinking, Yeah,
that was very toxical of her.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Victoria Monette is here and we got more with her
when we come back, we'll be talking about her new
album that's coming out this month, plus her tour, plus
everything else that got her to where she is today.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
It's way up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
You Angela ye?

Speaker 3 (44:36):
What's Up's way up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
I'm Angela Yee And Jasmine from the Jasmine Brand is
here and we're talking to Victoria Monette. And I also
remember you had done an interview a while ago where
you said that you couldn't wait to have a kid,
like it.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Was on your vision.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Then I sure did so when you found out you
were pregnant. What was that like, because that was something
you wanted.

Speaker 9 (44:54):
Really crazy, it was unexpected. But the first thing I
started feeling was my breast. I was like something tender,
new and different. When it first said positive, I was
like like laughing. It was like no, So I took
another one and it was in a pandemic. I was
trying to find a nice way to tell my boyfriend

(45:14):
because he had literally just asked me to be his
girlfriend the day before.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
She was like, whoa perfect timing, right.

Speaker 9 (45:19):
I was like, you must have felt something because you
asked me the right time. So I wrote him a
card that I just had in the house. You know,
we couldn't go to the store at the time to
get anything, so I was like, I'm just gonna right
in here. I was like, June third, you made me
your girlfriend. June fourth, I made you.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
It waste no time, not literally one day.

Speaker 9 (45:36):
So but it was really cool.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
So he asked you to be his girlfriend.

Speaker 9 (45:41):
So he wrote something on a mirror. He was asking
me something about what I'd like to be called, and
then he something like would you like if I called
you my girlfriend? And he wrote like a heart, and
then our initials on a mirror. It was really cute
and innocent.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
That is so sweet of people don't ask that anymore,
you know, people are like, we just go together.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Yeah, did your mom?

Speaker 4 (46:06):
Did?

Speaker 3 (46:06):
She always like him?

Speaker 9 (46:07):
She met him pretty early on in our dating and
she liked him. Yeah, she was like, we ca.

Speaker 14 (46:14):
Yeah, how do you manage being busy and being a mom?
How do you manage not feeling guilty?

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Or do you feel guilty?

Speaker 9 (46:21):
I sure do feel guilty. I feel guilty all the time,
but I think my family reassures me that what I'm
doing is it's for her. It's for the family, it's
for the long one, for her future. So I try
to snap out of that really quick. And I also
try to bring her most places that I can so
I can combine my work and family life. So I

(46:42):
do plan to bring her on tour.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
She's on the album right, She's on the album.

Speaker 9 (46:45):
She's on with earth Wind and Fire. Yes, yes, she's
on there with earth Wind and Fire. It's really full.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
So she tell me that's one of her favorite groups
of all the time. She's gonna be like you.

Speaker 9 (46:55):
I think she's going to care a little bit later.
Now she has no idea she actually she when she
hears her part, she her ears perk up. So yeah,
since actually the part that she's on on the song
was from when she was four months old and it
was the first time I heard her laugh, so she
knows that it's hers to this day. Amazing, and she

(47:16):
gets the royalties because I gave her a publishing So
we're being paid out here.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Now, Jaguar too. The album comes out this month, right.

Speaker 9 (47:26):
Yes, August twenty fifth. How you feeling in the world.
It's August now, So I'm just like, we've made it.
The countdown has begun.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
I'm going to be doing a lot of this when
we definitely, trust me, that day we're going to be
having a little listening up here car and everything, because
as you know, we are big fans.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Tell you, I'm like, I have to go out of
town today.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
I was like, no, we got to make sure we're
here because I never get to have a real sit
down with you.

Speaker 9 (47:51):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
The timing is great, that's right, But honestly, thank you
so much for coming to sit with us. I know
we're going to do more of this. Congrats as you
know on the tours selling it immediately on an amazing album.
From what we've heard so far, there's three singles.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
You know, I am, Oh, trust me, I am amazing.

Speaker 9 (48:10):
Okay, listen, okay.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
But the three singles so far have all been bangers
that are out right now, you know. So congratulations on
your whole entire journey. I've been watching you for over
ten years now, as you know, so I'm definitely happy
for you and anything I could ever do, I'm there.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
You know that.

Speaker 9 (48:26):
I appreciate you so much. I just want to give
you flowers right now. I wish I had some. But
thank you so much for supporting me all this time.
It just means the world. It actually gave me a
lot of glimmers of hope. You were always mentioning my name,
you like, but Victoria Monette when you have interviews with
Tip and everything. So thank you.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Yay, we had some good times. Yes, I actually hope
to her first listening party and.

Speaker 9 (48:48):
We got to yes, yes, history.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
All right, it is way up with angela ye, Victoria money,
thank you so much, y'all know.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
August twenty fifth, YEP, Jaguar two.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
When we come back, we have ask ye eight hundred
two ninet two fifty one fifty is the number any
question that you have. I'm here, and my award winning
advice giving friend Mano is here on day five of
him wearing the same outfit as Way up At Angela.

Speaker 7 (49:11):
Ye.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
Everybody six, whether.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
It's relationship or career advice, Angela's dropping facts.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
So you should know.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
This is ask ye what app it's way up at
Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee and the award winning wearing
the same clothes everyday advice giver.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Mayo is here.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Yes, I am the greatest.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
The greatest of all time, the greatest advice giver. And
we have asked ye eight hundred two nineteen fifty one
fifty Hello, anonymous caler, how are you?

Speaker 4 (49:37):
Hello? Angela yee. I'm happy to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
I'm happy to hear from you. Mayno's here too. What
is your question for asking you today?

Speaker 4 (49:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (49:45):
My question is I'm born in Africa.

Speaker 8 (49:48):
Rais Africa.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
I'm not gonna.

Speaker 7 (49:50):
Name the country because they just passed the law to
kill get people over there, so but unlikely I'm now ye.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
So my question was I was born gay?

Speaker 7 (50:04):
Now I know I'm gay because before I couldn't believe it,
Like you know, I couldn't come out though I have
a girlfriend, I call her girlfriend, but she's a mother
of my child. My child is going to be fourteen
years old. So this lady still loves me. But I
haven't told her nothing, nothing at all. Whenever I go

(50:27):
back in the country, like I've never been out for me,
I'm still in the closer. I don't want to tell
her that I don't like her anymore because so I
meet with her.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
I want the relationship to be of my kid. But
I feel I should come out and tell her that,
you know what, I'm gay.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Well, the problem is this that, like you said, it's
against the law, and I do have a lot of
they passed that includes the death sentence. So when you
go back home, you don't want to have to be
concerned and worried about things like that. It's very unfortunate.
But you don't love this woman, whether or not you're gay.
That's not who you want to be with, right.

Speaker 7 (51:06):
Yeah, because I want to I want to leave her
her to be free and get another man.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
She does not need to know that. That's the reason.
She just needs to know that you don't want to
be with her. It's not going to work. It's not
going to happen. And I do feel like until you're
ready to come out, then you know it's not necessary.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
But he wants to come out the closet. What you
want to do?

Speaker 7 (51:28):
I think the first to come out to only my girl,
not to everybody.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
You want to stay. You want to stay in the
closet a little bit.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (51:39):
I already see her because when they were before, they
passed a lot to kill, like like in prison. So
she was among the people running this campaign. Yes they
should be killed, yes, not knowing that.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
That the boyfriend the father of her kids, it's gay.

Speaker 7 (52:01):
I'm trying, like, I was like, should I tell her
so that she knows that you people may look like me?

Speaker 12 (52:08):
Right?

Speaker 4 (52:09):
She will? Again. The reason why I was like should
I tell her?

Speaker 8 (52:12):
Right?

Speaker 2 (52:13):
I get it because this is your family, and this
also affects your son and your relationship with your son.
And I'm sure it hurts you that she feels like
that really about you, right, because in her head she
has this whole other perception and now it's affecting her.
So you want to be able to tell her so
that she can see these laws that you are supporting.
That you wanted to pass that would give me the

(52:33):
death penalty, is what you're saying.

Speaker 7 (52:35):
Yeah, already they passed it again. I got to see
in me, I'm like, what if I tell her, then
maybe she's gonna deny me the right to my son.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Right, that's the high part.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
I'm confused.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
You know what, maybe you.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Want to wait till your son is old enough, right,
because he's fourteen now you said yes, So maybe when
he can make his own decisions and you can talk
to him. Also, that might be a good idea when
he can travel by himself, because he's only fourteen, so
it might be harder for her to let him come
and travel to see you and do those things.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
I never got taught being gay. It is something that
I grew up with.

Speaker 7 (53:12):
I was born in Muslim, so I changed from Muslim
to spiritual like to spiritual Christian, thinking that they're going
to pray for me and then this thing goes away
from me. But I've been in church all from my
teenager up to now when I'm.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
Forty years old. Okay, nothing changed, nothing change.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
I am so sorry to hear that, and I know
it must be really hard for you, and life must
have been difficult for you growing up knowing who you
were and how you identify, and people are not accepting that,
and I am concerned for your safety. So because of that,
I would say, when your son is old enough, I
just would hate for you to go there. And you know,
like you said, anti gay legislation does include the death sentence.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
It's very harsh. You could die from that.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
And so that's the reason why I feel like you're
more concerned about your son than anything else.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
Yeah, and I want you to live.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
All right. Yeah, I appreciate it, but this.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Could be something that at some point you can be
an advocate for it. But if you want to continue
to see your son when he's old enough to travel,
and you may not be able to go home unfortunately.

Speaker 7 (54:15):
Yeah, I appreciate you guys for even accepting me and other.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
People up one like me.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
All right, Well, we thank you for feeling like you
had the strength to come and call us. We appreciate
that because I know that's not an easy thing to
to have these conversations.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
Yeah, thank you so much. I appreciate for your device.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
All right, Well, that was a tough one, that was
asking And when we come back, we have last word
that is eight hundred and two nine two fifty one
fifty anything that you want to say, any comments that
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Speaker 3 (54:42):
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The phone, tapp being to get your voice heard.

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What the word is is the last word?

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On way up with Angela Yee?

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Speaker 6 (54:58):
I'm just laughing because you just your people don't know you.
They don't know you. Yo, you are crazy. It's crazy.
So today's my last day, it's not.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
You have the weekend and we will be going live
with you to make sure you're still wearing the same
outfit that you have on. Okay, we had a bet.
The bet was for a week, not for a work week.
It was for a whole entire week of you wearing
the same clothes. And you've been doing all kinds of
things changing.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
You've been I've not been changing. I put the sweater
on over.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
I've seen you in a convertible with a different outfit.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
On, with that mart.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
All over the place.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
You halfway did the bet Okay, but you what.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
I came in.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
I got up every morning and came to this job
with the same outfit.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Here, and you're riding around with the top down and
day that day too many.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Okay, but we're.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Gonna let that slide. So yeah, Saturday and Sunday and
then Monday when we see.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
You can change, just keep it on. You should. It's
part of your brand now.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
No, man, we're gonna auction it all.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Oh yeah, don't action it.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Nah, not at all. We're gonna auction it off on Monday.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Well, again, thank you you guys. We had a great week.
Shout out to Victoria Monette for joining us. Her album
Jaguar two will be out later this month. But again,
she's going on an amazing So That tour. Thank you
guys for calling us, for asking for tell us a secret,
for shine a light, for everything that we have going on.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
We are really super appreciative. Everybody. Be safe over the weekend.

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You can always call us eight hundred two ninety two
fifty one fifty and leave a message even if we're
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we'll check back in with you on Monday. Be safe
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Speaker 10 (56:43):
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Speaker 9 (56:49):
I think the.

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Chemistry betwe you may know jazz friend and you if
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time priory listen to. I love you, You're doing your things.
I'm so proud of you.

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Never mind, I'm scared

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