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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You are what I call ye.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's way up. But Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee on.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A Friday, and I got my guy John Alastair with
me today.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
What's happening? Happy to be here, comedian.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I see you got your Dapper Dane Gap edition sweatshirt on.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I like that, that's right. And this came from a
pop up, So don't think everybody got one of the joints.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I've never seen that one.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
That's right. You never seen this one.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yes, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's one of one.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
John Last and I have been friends for quite some time.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But what I love is that it is Black History Month,
day two and everything that you do centers around black businesses.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Everything that I do now with this app, yeah, it's
it's and it's Black History Month. You know what though,
can I just tell you this fun fact? Let's do
this right up top. Do you know that the average
person spends a little less than two percent of their
income on black owned businesses?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And we wonder why we're in this hole? So I
just want to get that out there. We lost forty
seven percent of all storefront businesses during lockdown. Some of
those are coming back. Forty seven percent of black owned businesses.
So can you imagine if white owned businesses went under
at that rate? A little under two percent of people's
income they spend on black owned businesses, can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Glad you're here with us today.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes, yes, that's a comedian, but a walking book of information.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'm old, so walking encyclopedia.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
All right, Well, we're gonna get this show started. Smoked
Dizzit and stoles p are going to be joining us today.
Smoke Disnes's fortieth birthday celebration is actually tomorrow. It's going
to be a big deal. We'll talk about it. But
in the meantime, let's shine a light. Eight hundred two
nine two fifty one fifty. Call us up and let
us know who you want to shine a light on.
It's way up.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Turn your lights on, y'all, spreading love to those who
are doing greatness.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Shine light.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's time to shine a light on them.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's way up. But angela ye, angela yee. And John
Last is here.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
He's a comedian. So we're gonna be here laughing all
day today for no reason. But we do want to
shine a light. And today I want to shine a
light on Jessica Lewis and Ibrahim Smith. They are the
founders of Mobile Enterprises. They're the newest black owned company.
They build disaster resistant homes using sustainable construction methods. So
they have the shipping container enterprise that's recognized for the
(02:30):
affordable housing approach. You know, housing is such an important
topic right now in the United It has been for
quite some time. But we've been having a lot of
issues when it comes to affordable housing and people feeling
like I can't even ever afford to buy home, you know,
and we're in New York.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, yeah, it's really bad. Yeah, really bad. But I
mean I like the shipping container thing.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
People have been doing that also for restaurants and for
a lot of different situations, and it's efficient, it's innovative,
they said. The company's team of contractors, engineers and terror designers.
They can complete a project in less than ninety days
and it's a one stop shot for build out.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Can you imagine because my house.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Been being worked on for four years, I could have
had a house in ninety days. All right, Well, shout
out to Jessica Lewis and Ibrahim Smith from Mobile Enterprises.
Now let's talk about who you want to shine a
light on eight hundred n fifty Linda, how are you?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
I am fabulous fifty and thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Thank you, Linda. Who do you want to shine a
light on? Fabulous?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Oh my, so okay, I'm not mad.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It is.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
So I needed to take time and call for me.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, come on continue, let us know.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
And so you know I'm fabulous.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
I'm feeling good and you know I'm here.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Okay, all right, Linda, how old are you?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
I am fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Fabulously fifty eight, Linda, Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Thank you all right, take care honey, all right, bye
bye bye. All right.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well that was shining light eight hundred and two nine
two fifty one fifty. And when we come back, we
have your EE team.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We could talk about Jack Queas and Trey songs, but
because it's Black History Month, let's also focus on white
on white issues. Britney spears versus justin Timberlake. Y e
t is next, they says in the rooms, from industry
shade to all of gossip out send Angela's spelling that
EyeT all right, it is way up at Angela ye.
I'm Angela ye, and I'm here with my guy John Laster,
(04:37):
what a do comedian and founder of.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
BLAP That's what I do.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
A tech company. We have to say tech company.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Let's start off, Let's get into some yet, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
We'll start off with Britney Spears versus Justin Timberlake. Now
Justin Timberlake recently had a pop up concert in New
York and he previously has apologized to Britney Spears a
Janna je but while he was on that stage, he
was really feeling himself.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I say, apologize.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Brittney Spears went on Instagram and says someone told me
someone was talking ish about me on the streets and
she had a picture of a moon frame decide the
basketball net? She said, do you want to bring it
to the court or will you go home crying to
your mom like you did last time?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I'm not sorry. Did she just challenge her to a
game of one on one?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I didn't even notice she had skills though, like that,
Like that's a weird that's a weird duel.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Right, And you know she had also shouted out his
album before that and everything and apologized for things that
she wrote in her book. If I offended any of
the people I genuinely care about, I'm deeply sorry. I
also want to say I am in love with justin
Timberlake's new song Selfish.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It is so good. So she says that, but then
he goes.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
He comes with the backhand.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, with that, I ain't ever sorry. All right, Now,
here's something else we did not anticipate happening. Jack Queeses
and Trey's Songs apparently had a physical altercation.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Here is what Jacqueese had to say about it.
Speaker 10 (06:14):
I want the web to know this chance Trey Songs
is a this came in the club talking about right
then you come outside the club and swing on your
little brother bottom.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That ain't even my You're a rapist and I don't
give a if you tell.
Speaker 11 (06:28):
Anybody anything about what we textured, putting the message on
the bro you can never come around.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So apparently they're out in Dubai and the I think
the craziest part, well, there's two crazy parts of this. Yeah,
there's security that worked there standing around and he's pointing
at the security and he's like, there wasn't even with me.
They was with the workers with the workers, and the
guys are standing there like, what do we have to
do this? And then he posted some of his dreads
(07:00):
the Tray songs allegedly yanked out and he said, f
Trey songs can't come back to Atlanta?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Have now? I do want to?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Can we spend the mic over to Navy who runs
our boards. He is currently bald, but previously he did
have dreads.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So he can tell us about He could tell us
about the trauma of when your dreads come out, it'll fight.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Have you ever had your your dreads yet? Because that
looks painful.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This it looks very.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
There's like five dreads on the table. So what happened?
So that happened to you twice? It's not something I
recommend ever, Well, we would never recommend that. So what
happened when they get pulled out? Did you have a
bald spot?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Pretty much?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It's like a patch of just where your dread was.
It's very painful. If your light skin light me, it
turns red. You gotta get it sewed back in the
lost dreads? Yeah pretty much?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
All right, Well you got so you got the dreads
sold back in so jaquis. Could I guess you can
get it back?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yo? Let me tell you something. I know that's got
to be crazy, because have you ever had one hair
pulled out?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm a woman. We had that done all the time,
so it's really nothing. I heard it wrong when it
came out of my head.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh yeah, it sounded like cloth being there was there blood, No,
but it was extremely red. Yeah, extremely all right, Well
I'm hurting right now. It's just like, you know what,
and I feel your pain. It's just like when guys
always talk about, oh, she kicked me in the oh yeah,
and then I'm like, ooh, but I don't know what
that feels like for real, but imagine it hurts. All right, Well,
(08:26):
that is your Yet when we come back, we have
about last night. That's where we discussed what we did
last night. I feel like I've been doing something every day.
But I did go see a Broadway play and we'll
talk about that. But in the meantime, she's having an
amazing twenty twenty four while everything else is a little crazy.
Victoria Monett on My Mama, Yea last.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Night, So about last night?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Last night?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Last night, I went down.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's way up at Angela Yee. I'm Angela ye my guy.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
John Laster, comedian and tech founder of Black is Here, John.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
What did you do last night?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Last night? You know what? It's crazy. I went to
a It was comedy and tech, but it was a roast,
so it was people pitching new tech businesses. And then
there was a bunch. Yes, yes, it was a roasting.
I was at a roasting shark tank.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So did you host or were you?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know what? I just went to support my my
business partner. My business partner created Venmo and he has
a new app called jelly Jelly, and he was pitching
jelly Jelly.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
What is jelly Jelly.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Jelly Jelly is an audio app that will transcribe conversations
that you have and then you can send it to people.
It's really dope. Make sure you download jelly Jelly.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I like that?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, but he created Was it funny at least? No?
It was brutal. They lit him up. No, it was
not funny. So you oh my, I wanted to tackle
some of the people because I'm sitting there rooting for
him and there was people slicing and dicing it.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Have you ever been roasted?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I have been roasted. Yeah, I've been in roast.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I don't know if I could want to do that
if you want to roast somebody or get roasted.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I don't know. I think that's how we all kind
of started as comedians. Definitely black comedians. We all snapping
on each other. That is a fact. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, yesterday I went to go see Wicked on Broadway.
And you know, Wicked has been on Broadway for a while,
and this is my first time going to see it,
and it was amazing. So the fact is, everybody, when
I told them I was going to see Wicked, wanted
to go.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And so my friend Kim Osorio, she came to me.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
She was so excited. She was like she was actually
up here and she was like, You're going to see Wicked.
Oh my god, can I come?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Can I come? I want to go with you. I
want to go see Wicked.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I was with Erika Alexander the other day we went
to go see The Lion King, and she was talking
about Wicked while we were there and how much she
loves Wicked and the music that's in there, and I
want to say, it is amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Do you know what it's about.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I don't know what it's about, but I've heard from
a number of people that it's really, really dope.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh, it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It's basically the story of the two witches from the
Land of Oz, you know, Glenda, the good Witch and
then the wicked Witch of the West Alpha Alpha, and
so it kind of puts a twist to the story.
But it is really really amazing. And when I tell
you like, they did an amazing job. Everybody Broadway is
amazing to me because you really can't mess up.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's not you get to shoot it again.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You have to be on on that percent all the time,
and if you do mess up, the audience does not know.
So if anything didn't go right, I had no idea.
But it was amazing. Like the stage design. It was
sold out on a you know, and it's been there
for so long, so clearly quite a popular play.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All right, you said you're gonna go see it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm definitely going to see it.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, it was really really good. So shout out to
everybody from Wicked on Broadway. When we come back, though,
you're gonna love this. Tell us a secret eight hundred
two nine two fifty one fifty years a number you
can call us up and tell us a secret.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
The other day, A keen Woods was here, Yes, well,
tell us a secret. And somebody called in and ruined
his friend's toilet. He did, I guess he lifted the
top of the toilet the tank and he pooped in there.
It's called the upper decker, which I never knew, but
it ruins your toilet. And I saw people in the
comments like, yeah, I put shrimp in someone's I didn't
know that ruins your toilet.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
What type of white boys decker?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I had no idea. All right, well eight hundred two
fifty one fifty. Call us up and tell us a secret.
We're not here to judge you.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We just want to listen and laugh. It's way up.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
This is a judgment. Free ze own, tell us a secret.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Its way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee, and
John Laster is here with me today. John, you ready
for tell us a secret.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I'm very ready for tell us a secret.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Now, listen. It don't always got to be about relationships.
It could be all kinds of things. We've heard people
call up and tell a secrets that they've never told
anyone before.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But we are not here to judge you.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Eight hundred nine two fifty one fifty Anonymous Carlair, what's
your secret?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
You to date this guy? Everything was good. I don't
know if he knew, but he had a major.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Problems with bed buzz.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
I didn't realize this. How went to his crib, you know,
were having a good time and then like the back
of my ankles just started itching like real mad, and
I'm like the hell, So I go, I go home,
and I see I got a bunch of like bite marks.
I don't say anything. I keep this secret for like
two three months. And he starts saying some new girl
and she gets eating up and she blames him for
(13:20):
giving her skapies or whatever, and I spent quiet ever since.
I always act like I didn't know. Say, I don't
know if he ever changed that mattress, but I hope.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So I'm just saying the bed bugs died.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But now, but what what made you not tell him?
Speaker 13 (13:37):
Like?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Why didn't you want to tell him?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Because like how you fringer bad like crip.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
And you over here netflix and biting.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
But why would you want to leave other people out
for that?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
And listen, I don't care he didn't tell me. I
ain't telling nobody else.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I was been babrassed yea, because you know what, it
probably was crabbed in there too with the bed bugs.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It was a whole community.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I've never had bed bugs or like experience that. I
can't even imagine what that would be like.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
I never had that in my life.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Did you ever see him again after that? Or was
that at the end of the relationship.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
No, that was the end of it. I broke up
with him.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
I never told him nothing. The next girl he was daying,
she was a battie like me, and she got bit
the hell up too?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well, how you out of here?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Told everybody?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So she ended the bug saga way.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
He didn't know, Blake, I hope you changed the sheet.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Oh okay, okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Shout out to all the baddies.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yes, shout out. Shout out to people that killed bed bugs.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, shout out to the bed bug baddies.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
This is the bed bug batties.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Mis call it. How are you?
Speaker 8 (14:47):
How much your soul?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
How good is me? And John?
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Last?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Did we want to hear your secret?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
My secret is that my my current girlfriend doesn't know
that I slept with her son.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh whoa, so you said for her side? So she
doesn't know that you even know she has a side piece.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Yeah, she doesn't know that I and I know that
she had the piece.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
How did you find out?
Speaker 8 (15:09):
One night I was going through her phone and I
saw that she starts talking to some boy and I
had texted him off of my phone, and I asked them, like,
are you guys messing.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Around or like what's going on?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
And he said yeah, I've been sleeping with us. So
I was like, okay, you want to try to get
her called up? And we do?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So you don't mind, you do men and women?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Yeah, I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I do any So did y'all continue to pursue like
your thing with the side piece?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Did you like it was a good?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Now he don't want to leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And you don't want to leave him alone?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
E there, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh, so you like this guy?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Now I do like this guy, and I'm going to
get rid of her.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Wow, imagine that your main piece link up, but your
side piece and now you single?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Now she the side piece?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Are you going to tell you?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Just you just you about to piece.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
I was on some of her because me and him
been messing around for like over over two three months.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Wow, it's messy, but we like it. Thank you for
calling no judgment, no judgment?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Well that was tell us a secret eight hundred and
two nine fifty one fifty in case you couldn't get through.
And when we come back, we have your yee tea
and let's talk Wendy Williams. I did not expect this
chairler to come out. We'll talk about it. It's way up.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh, she's about to blow the lid ab off this five.
Let's get it. Oh angelus feeling that yeeee come and
get your tea.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
All right, it is way I put it into he
on a Friday, I'm here and John Laster is.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Here with me.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, make sure y'all check him out to what's your Instagram?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
My instagram is? He was funny?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He was funny.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
He was funny, Yes, he was funny.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
All right.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Well, Wendy Williams is in a documentary, A lifetime documentary
is called Where Is Wendy Williams? And this is where
she has the opportunity to finally tell what's been going
on her own mouth about alcohol abuse and financial problems
that she's having her guardianship. Here's what that trailer sounds like.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I really want to be back on television.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
My mom has done a great job making it seem
like everything is okay, but in reality, there's something going on.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Did you see a neurologist to find that if I'm crazy,
I have no money.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
If it happens to me, it could happen to you.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
As her family, we were all sitting on the sidelines
watching and she was crying out for help.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Did you drink this whole thing today? I miss my family?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Woo. All right.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, that documentary will be released as a two night
event and as you can see, some of her family
members are on the documentary as well, detailing everything.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What do you think, John, why do you look like that?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah? I think it's funny that she said if it
could happen to me, it could happen to you. No, everybody,
don't sit around try to kill careers all day. Good day. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Well, she does have a sickness, so you know I
have a sickness. That is true.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, so don't do that. Don't do that. I've been
to rehab four times.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Okay, you're right, and you're right, and you know I
do know, yes, because I was like, you need to
go to rehab.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yes, I've been to detox rehab, been patient, out patient,
up patient, down patient. Have you been cleaned almost five years?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
That's great?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yes, yes, almost five years.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And it's always one day at a time.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Still you right about that?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well, Victoria have Monet was on with Gil King and
you know the Grammys are this weekend, by the way,
so Gil King asked her some questions also dealing with
the LGBTQ community, because Victoria Money has openly said that
she does like men and women.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
The thirty four year old is believed to be making
history with the most Grammy nominations of an openly queer
black woman artist in a single year.
Speaker 14 (19:02):
It took so long to feel comfortable enough to say anything,
so I feel now is the time to stand my
ground and be proud of what I am and who
I am.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
All right, see, congratulations. People love Victoria Mooney's album, and
she's just a sweet person in general when you meet
her in real life. And speaking of the Grammys, Rock
Nation is not going to host their annual pre Grammy
brunch this year. I don't know what was behind that decision,
but that Rock Nation brunch used to have people in
a tizzy. Okay, when I tell you people posting their
(19:36):
pictures walking up to the brunch. In the brunch, jay
Z in the background, Beyonce there.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You know what's upsetting to me about this. I finally
got to invite you did not cancer, But that's what
I would be telling people. Yo, you know, I got
to invite this, and then they gazzled it.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You know they've been doing this since twenty eleven. There
was a hiatus because of COVID. I've been to the
Runch before. I feel like I went before.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
It became humble brag.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
The huge to do that, it is no because this
was before it was like everybody like rock Nation Brunch.
So yeah, but now we don't have to worry about
people hating from outside the club.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
N No, I guess I'm not gonna make it all
right with that. We take that suit back, Oh take
my back.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I know you would have looked so nice there too.
You're right, all right, you're not even gonna be in LA.
But that's a different story. But that is your Yet
when we come back, we have under the radar. These
are the stories that are not necessarily in the headlines.
They are flying under the raidar. And I know the
first question that you have guys. You guys have for
us today? Did the groundhog see his shadow? We'll talk
about it when we come back.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's way up.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
It's in the news that relates to you. These stories
are flying under the radar.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
It's way I put angela ye, I'm angela yee, and
John Last is here with me today.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You're ready for these under the radar stories totally? All right?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well, the groundhog today is the day he had to
wake up and we have to see whether or not
he saw his shadow. Why are you laughing already because
of groundhogging?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Because a ground hoogging?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You didn't know what groundhogging was anyone else? Yes he did.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I'll just have you know neither did anyone else.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
All right, Well, groundhogging is when the definition that I
have a groundhogging. It's kind of like when the groundhog
peaks out whether or not he sees his shadow. Is
when you have to go to the bathroom and do
a number two, but you have to hold it so
maybe it goes out, but you suck it back in.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's like that. That's groundhogging.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
This is what annoys you said it like it was
like a normal thing, like like like in everyday conversation.
People are like, yo, you know I was groundhogging.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I ex everybody when you're trying to put the key
in the door and no one.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Talks about it, that's not like common vernacular.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
All right, Well, if you all want to know if
the groundhog was ground hogging, apparently he walked up and
did not see his shadow this morning means that it
will be in early spring.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So that's what that means. Okay, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. That's when ground hogging.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Goes right, goes right.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Now the rock he is expected to become a billionaire
because of his to kill the brand Teamana. You know
how much that brand is valued at three point five
billion dollars, So congratulations to him for that. Member George
Cooney when he sld Casamigos, he sold it four billion dollars.
And so now they're saying Tea Mana is valued at
(22:31):
three point five billion dollars. And we don't know what
his ownership steak is in Tea Mana. It's not publicly
known because he does have other partners in that. But
say he had a thirty percent equity steak, then.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
He would be a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, a billion, a billion just from that alone.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
That's a good chunk.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
And right now they're saying his net worth is eight
hundred million dollars and so this could really take him
over the top. All right, well that is you're under
the radar. Now we do have the way of coming
at the top of the hour. Plus, we got two
special guests joining us today, styles Pe and Smoke Dizza.
Smoke Dizza is having his fortieth birthday this weekend, the
(23:08):
Smoker the Smokers Club. A lot of big guests are
going to be coming through, like Big Cret Conway of course,
styles Pe, Beanie Siego, Freeway, Pete Rock. We'll talk about it.
It's way up. She's like the like they Angela Jean
like they Angela Jean Man.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
She's spilling it all. This is yat way.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yes, it is way up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I'm Angela Yee and my guy, comedian and tech founder
of Black John Lester is here with me today.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I'm sorry, I'm looking at ourselves talking about tell us
a secrets on Instagram. But you know it's time for
some ut plus some new music Friday. So let's start
it off with Ea Ray. She is planning two new
shows with HBO on the network, and even though she's
had some missues, you know, rap Ish, which was my
show after two seasons, got canceled, but she does have
(24:00):
two other shows on the way, so she'll create, write
and start in.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You know, we'll see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I missed seeing her in a show too, because Insecure
was my Yeah, you know, she was.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
She was recently talking about that. She you know, she
felt some kind of way about a lot of the
shows that were picked up and being pushed that she
feels like a lot of the black led shows are
being pushed out.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
That the George Floyd effect was kind of short lived.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
So we see that all over with corporate America too.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You had all these.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Plans and the money and then now they're like, all right,
back to business.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Now. DMC has announced two run DMC biopics in the works.
So DMC previously was against the idea, but he told
All Hip Hop in an interview that was published yesterday
that he didn't like the idea of jumping into that
crowded lane, but working on the new docu Memory Kings
from Queens got him to see things differently.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I'm excited to see this.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
By the way, translation they went up on the money.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
You think that's what that means?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
You translate that for you.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Check And honestly, like NWA straight out of Compton, it
was amazing and I think we need more of those biopics, you.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Know, absolutely, those are my favorite movies to watch.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Honestly, Run DMC is arguably arguably the most consequential group
of all time.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah so, and we've never had a chance to see
them like this, so I think it's going to be
really groundbreaking. All right, Well, let's get into some new music.
Shout out to my guy, I swear Vezzo. Live from
the Six is out today, and here is a snippet
from a song that he actually premiered up here on
Way Up with angela Ye when he guests hosted It's
Perfect featuring the Baby Something Perfect.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
All right.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Another thing that he's doing in Detroit today is he
is making uh the six mile line the free all
day today. So Live from the six comes out, came
out today, and you can ride all day for free
on that line. So shout out to ice Wear Vessel
Solja Boy Swag six is out to your kurn almost there.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Her EP is out today.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Also new Usher, as we're gearing up for the super
Bowl next week. Here's Usher featuring Fields with Ruin.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Good.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
That is a vibe.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Like it. USh is timeless, I know, and his album's
coming out next week. Also it's called Coming Home.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
JT has a new song out called Sideways Down Tulliver
Were Banded, Cash Doll has Big One out.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You know, I love some Cash Doll.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Daniel Caesar has Waiting in Vain off that uh one love.
Bob Marley soundtracks a lot of new music at today.
Shout out to Pretty Braa. She has Dirty Fantasies out
but it's so dirty we could not play it at all.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And she's on lip service right now. But when I say.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Dirty, okay, Pretty Brea, and you get to hear Mary J.
Blige wrapping all right here and Vado on Beautiful Life.
Speaker 12 (27:08):
Show you how to win because with me on a
cheat cold, then move out.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
A cheat okay, Mary all right?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
And that is your yet slash New music Friday, and
when we come back. Since John Laster is here, he's
telling us so many stories behind the scenes, we got
to bring some of these to the air. I mean,
we've talked about bed bugs, cocaine, crabsgen all right, it's.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Way up, fab way up with Angela Yee more now.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yes, it's way up with Angela Ye. I'm Angela Yee
and John Laster is here with me on a Friday. Friday,
the second day of Black History Month. And you, John Laster,
every single day of your existence right now, are focused
on making sure that people shop with black owned businesses.
So I want people to know you're not just a comedian,
but you're also a tech founder.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I am a tech founder, and I was saying earlier
that people don't realize that, like just under two percent
is what the average person spends their income on black
owned businesses. And we gotta up that help is not coming,
you know what I mean. I have a clip it's
really sad of Martin Luther King, and I know this
is gonna freak people out, saying that the things that
(28:20):
he tried had failed, and that's when he died. Martin
said that the legislation that he had passed, the sit ins,
the marches, he said, had failed. He at the end
of his life. Wow, they show us the nonsensical stuff,
and I wish we could get away from that. And
what he says is we need an economic solution to
these problems.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That's a fact.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yes, this not me, don't take my word for me.
Tech founder Martin Luther King said that that other stuff
that he had tried, waiting on white folks to wake
up and say, oh, what was done to them is wrong.
Let's find a way to correct it is never gonna happen. Stop.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
So that power is gonna come within us.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That power is gonna come today at lunch. Where do
you order lunch?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Where did you buy your toothbrush? Where is your who's
your dentist, who's your doctor, who's your lawyer? That is
the answer, period, full stop.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And we were talking off the air, and we were
discussing how you like to talk in front of audiences,
but like I like the young people, I like to
energize them. But I was also saying that it is
important to make money for the purpose of being able
to empower other people.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Like.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Part of why I think we should want to make
money is that it does. Money does influence a lot
of things. It influences elections and laws to be passed
and being even able to run for office or support
somebody who's running for office. But it also allows you
the ability to be able to invest in other people. Yes,
so once you have your successful people investing in you,
(29:48):
people investing in your business, that's when we can pay
it forward to Right.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
But let me tell you why I think there's I
have a slight problem with that. Yes, we do need money,
and I totally agree with that, but take for example,
a lot of folks that we have in the black
community that have money. If you don't know what to
do with the money, what does it matter. If we
don't understand that, the importance of rental properties, the importance
(30:13):
of life insurance, the importance of putting money in the
stock market, what does it matter? Right, We're going to
be stuck in the same place.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And that's why I love when we had I saw
you were excited that we had Ireland up here, arlin.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Oh yes, yes, I never met her first million.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
And she has a fund and she's able to help
invest in other people. And I like the Fearless Fund,
all of these different funds that people are able to
create that actually helps businesses so to be more organized like.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
That, And she understands that. But that's what I mean
about the knowledge. If we don't have the knowledge, then
even if you have money, what does it matter, you
know what I mean. That's why I said I don't know.
I take a lot of pride in talking to younger
people because they get it and we can change the
way that they think about things early on, letting them know.
Trying that Martin path is never gonna get the car
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out of the ditch if you do not change, if
we do not change our spending habits. You know, they
say that the wealth in the black community is going
to dwindle to zero by twenty fifty three.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, I keep it.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The circulation of the black dollar has reached a crawl.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well listen, Black Okay is the app.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
People can download it now and that will show you
some black owned businesses that you can spend your money at,
Amazing black owned businesses like cup coffee, up lifts people.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yes, all right, listen, when we come back. We have asked.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Ye eight hundred two nine fifty one fifty is a number.
Call us up, let us know anything that you need.
We are here to help you out. It's me, It's
John Lasser. It's way up everybody.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Since, whether it's relationship or career advice, Angela's dropping facts.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You should know. If this is ask kee, what's up?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Is way up? But Angela yee.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I'm Angela Ye and my guy John Lasterer is here
with me and it's time for ask ye. Eight hundred
two nine two fifty one fifty is a number any
question you have, we want to help you out.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Today. We have a Lisa on the line with that. Lisa, Hi,
how are you good? How are you? It's me and
John las Yar.
Speaker 9 (32:06):
Why y'all?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yo, how's it going? Thanks for calling in?
Speaker 8 (32:10):
It's no problem is bad?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Well tell us your question, Lisa.
Speaker 13 (32:14):
You all were just talking about supporting black businesses.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
But in my experience, and.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
I'm a black woman, I when I try to support
I always run.
Speaker 13 (32:23):
Into the unfriendliness, the poor customer service. We have to
change that narrative as well. It can't just be black
business let's go support them. In my experience, I'm not
speaking for all black businesses.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
We have as black business owners.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
Appreciate the customers that do support them.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
And a lot of times, you know, they say people if.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
You treat them bad.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
They tell everybody to treat them good.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
They don't tell.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Anybody, so all we hear about is the bad customers.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
So how do we change that narrative?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I would disagree with that there's bad customer services across
the board. There's over sixty thousand businesses on my app,
and there's no way in the world that there's sixty
thousand places that have bad customer service. You may just
need to find some other places to shop.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
And Lisa, I do want to say this because I
do feel like there is this narrative right that black
owned businesses aren't as professional, Like we hear it all
the time, but I want to say that a lot
of times I can go into a business that's not
a black owned business and have a negative experience.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
But I feel like black owned.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Businesses are held to a different standard totally, because sometimes
we go to a white establishment or you know, something
other and we don't expect to be treated We're like,
oh my god, they were rude. But you know what,
I'm gonna just be quiet and my my business. Everybody
wants to come to this restaurant eat it. Yeah, I'm
just gonna eat it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Customer service is okay, the bathroom's dirty, we don't say
nothing right, but the cd.
Speaker 12 (33:42):
I generally bad customer service is across the board. But
what you all are talking about, I heard you say
that money in the black community will be dried up soon.
And we have to take that knowledge and we all
have to do better. We as the consumers do have
to support.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yes, Yes, as a small business owner, we have to
appreciate the people that do come.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And you know what, Lisa, oftentimes, unfortunately we as black people,
think that there needs to be these wild, sweeping, dramatic changes.
It's not true. Think about it. If we consciously thought
about where we ate lunch once a week, or if
we own a small business, when we order flowers, when
we order wine, we order cupcakes, you could do all
of that on black. But if we thought about it
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and made an effort to buy a black on toothbrush.
There's dish washing detergent, there's laundry detergent, the things that
we normally do. There's cleaning supplies. But even if we
started to do those things and we were cognizant of it.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
When you go to Target, when you go to the
supermarket and you're like, you know what this is Patty
Labelle's brand.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yes, this is Angela's coffee uplifts people?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Well, yeah, well the coffee like Angela has coffee. We
all drink coffee every morning. What if we decided, you
know what, I'm gonna spend my money every morning just
with the coffee to remind me in the morning, with
my toothbrush or my coffee, to try to support some
black owned businesses during the day because help is not coming.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
What city are you in? I okay, shout out to Arlington, Virginia.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Well, you know what, everybody from Arlington, Virginia, just tag
us with your black owned business on way up with
you and Lisa, go take a look at some of those.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
When people start with you, I need.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You to follow black the app and everybody tag Keith
Lee because we're gonna try to get Keith Lee to
promote black owned restaurants during.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Three months and it helps a lot.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Because I'm gonna tell you what else too, Lisa, we
do have some different types of circumstances when we own businesses.
A lot of times we have to fund our own businesses,
we have to bootstrap, we have to work in our
own businesses. We don't have enough employees because we don't
get access to that capital that gives us the ability
to be able to you know, hire and spend on
marketing and spend on different things.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
So we do have a unique set of challenges.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
But I will say I have been to some amazing
some of my favorite places. I don't even think about like,
oh this is black owned. I just go there because
I love it. And that's what we really want, right
and that's that's always the goal. So you know, I
see you said with your experiences, so hopefully you'll try
out some new things and change it. You know, I'm
gonna be looking at Arlington, Virginia now to see what
y'all got at.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Hopefully you jump on blap and find some find some
doper places to check out. Listen, Yes, thank you so much,
thank you for your insight.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Okay, thank you all right, Well that is ask ye.
That was perfect for you, John, that was perfect eight fifty.
In case you couldn't get through it, you could leave
a message and we'll still answer your question. And when
we come back, we have a special gut well, two
special guests Smoke Dizza and Stoles p. They're black owned
business owners the Smokers Club Okay, Pharmacy for Life and
(36:33):
Smoke dis is having his fortieth birthday party this weekend,
so make sure you guys listen.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Smoke Disney and stoles P is next. It's way up,
Turn up you vibing.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Way up with Angela Yee more now what's up? It's
way up with Angela Yee and I mean way up
and we gotta stop ping. Smoke dizzit here with me today.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Right right right.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
First of all, thank you all for coming through. I
appreciate it. This is my new show and not the
one of you have been here yet.
Speaker 11 (36:59):
Look, it's the first time for everything. I'm just happy
I'm in the building.
Speaker 10 (37:03):
I said, I was waiting after I didn't know what happened, right,
that's crazy, you know.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Congratulations, it'll be one year for my show. Yeah, February sixth, Wow, birthday,
and let's talk about your birthday because you have a
big party.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
I feel like I need to be there.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
You definitely need to be there. You know.
Speaker 11 (37:22):
This is a personal invite, okay, and it's all it's
at Urban Plaza with my big brother Styles P, Big
Craig Conway, the Machine and start studying, start studying.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Freeway.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Oh, Pete Rock is going to be there by the
way you and Pete rock together amazing.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Look, I say you got your braces.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
How is that affecting you as an artist now too?
Speaker 10 (37:49):
I had to just performing and going into booth. I
just couldn't do Venias. I felt like I felt like
I knew I would get a big pair, like you
know what I mean. I just didn't want a big pair,
Like I'm like, I know my luck, it's not gonna
And then I could have did the in visit line,
but I smoked too much. Right, I'm definitely gonna lose it,
forget it, drop it, and keep having to do it.
(38:10):
So I'm like, let me just get my time over
with and just put my teeth in jail for a.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Couple of months.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Okay, So it's not that long.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
You have to have the money now, I have about
I think eight months left right now.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Smoke does it? And Style's per here.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Well, listen, I want to ask you guys with so
much going on right now, and of course I'm gonna
ask you about Megan thee Stallion versus Nicki Minaj and
when it comes to battles, is there anything that's off
the table Because I hear people saying that they're upset.
They don't like the fact that NICKI brought up you know,
Meghan's mother and things like that, and that's where you
draw the line.
Speaker 11 (38:40):
I think it was light, to be honest, I mean
the eraor that I grew up watching like these guys,
you know what I mean, Like it was you know,
it was cool, But I don't think it was. I
think people were blowing it out of proportion because it's
too sensitive nowadays.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
I didn't hear it.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Oh you didn't even listen to it.
Speaker 10 (38:59):
I mean in my own world. But it's like a fight.
You can't tell a person how to fight. You have
to expect the person to go all out and want
to win the altercation by all means necessary. So I
get wanted to see. I personally would like to see
a lot more unity within the ladies of rap, because
nobody wants to see black queens going at each other
(39:19):
like that. I'm forty nine, so the new generation is
soft to me with everything in life, Like everything in
life is kind of soft. Like I don't like that
everybody gets a trophy era. Okay, it's not cool, Like
you suck, Yeah, you suck. You don't deserve the trophy.
The winner gets the trophy, Like, do better next time
and get the trophy.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
But you know, that's my personal opinion.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
In the midst of all of your beast, what was
the time that you were most offended?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Were you?
Speaker 10 (39:45):
Like, well, man, our partners with I guess we're funny
because we would play the disrecords.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
It'd be like that was.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Funny, Okay, so that was good, Like we.
Speaker 10 (39:53):
Would go about it like he said that that was funny.
That was that was hilarious, Like you know what I mean,
And then you get back in the studio and go
back to at it. I think if they go hard
enough at some point, then they will meet the middle
ground and become cool.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (40:06):
That's what's wrong with lady hip hop beef. I don't
think they know when to squash it and then make
the best of it.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I do feel like when women beef, it's like forever,
it's forever, Like.
Speaker 10 (40:15):
They don't it's getting back, it's no noning, like like uh.
The only beef I ever felt personal was with Rocketfeller,
because I really we were pretty much in the same
places all the time and we had a certain type
of relationship, so it felt more personal plus we were
way more egotistical and prideful and stupid, right, so.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
It kind of just felt different.
Speaker 10 (40:40):
But like with you and It, I used to be
like I used to laugh, like I used to be,
Like Yo, fifty is a funny guy in the studio,
Like Yo, he is hilarious. Hopefully they're at some point though,
because they I think what they should realize and what
people should say is it's not about drawing the lines,
because once it's on and on, it's about having a
(41:02):
healthy respect for each other and watching who's coming up
behind you and then you guys together are stronger.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Than probably a part.
Speaker 10 (41:11):
But a lot of people are not going to tell
you that because they're gonna want to see y'all y'all separate.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
I'm gonna give this a.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Listen, Yeah, please, because you're, like I feel like you
are the beef connoisseur, the vegans beef connoisseur.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
At be pretty much pretty much pretty much, I'm gonna
give it.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
I'm gonna give it a listen.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
All right, Smoke Dizzit is here for his fortieth birthday
party that's going to be going down tomorrow at Irving Plaza. Also,
my guys styles Pe. We have more with them when
we come back. It's way up with Angela Yee.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Five, way up with Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
More. Now what's up this way up at the Angela Yee.
I'm Angela Yee and Styles Pe and Smoke Dizza are
here with me today. Now, Styles, I know you've been
doing a lot of things in the community.
Speaker 10 (41:55):
I actually just left city Hall before I got here
on a meeting. And how to upgrade more parks, how
to find centers for the youth, getting the kids involved
in jobs that are landing with you know, for one
kid's benefits. So we're you know, we're working on making
sure we change and hold the people in power responsible
(42:18):
and make them share the power, not ask them to
share the power, but yeah, make them power when the
city's going to change.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah, that's why it's important for us to be involved
when it comes to elections.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Everything.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Like we can say this is they don't do anything,
but what are we doing to make sure that they're
doing what they have to do?
Speaker 9 (42:35):
It?
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Smoked is it?
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Let's talk about you for a second. I see you
said that you and Pete Rock are working on doing
a part two.
Speaker 11 (42:42):
Yeah, me and Pete been working on that for a
little minute. Now be about to roll out of project
with Common.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah, I saw Common talking about it.
Speaker 11 (42:49):
It's crazy, that's huge, and then we're probably going to
release I think maybe like.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
The summer when I first started, when I was younger,
I wanted to be a DJ. He told me HE'SDJ
and he actually gave me a whole bunch of records too. Yeah,
so he was like, I do still I still have
the records. I got my turntables from DJ mugs from
Cypress Hill. I helped him do it. I helped him
(43:15):
do a deal and he was like, what can I
do to thank you? And I said, I want to
get some turntables and he had a deal with new Mark,
so he got me turntables. And then look Special K
and Teddy Ted and Pete Rock gave me vinyl.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I remember.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
It was a bunch of different DJs that actually helped
me out, and they were like, just come, I got you.
I'll give you some records. And that's really how it happened.
I'm gonna be honest. The only reason I didn't DJ
fully back then was because carrying the greats it was
so hard to do because it's not like today where
you have serato and you can just you know, put
everything on the laptop.
Speaker 10 (43:48):
And I respect that was born for this.
Speaker 11 (43:52):
We need that in an atmosphere one time.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
But anyway, listen you guys.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
I know everybody's got things on their schedule, but I
wanted to make sure y'all came up here before the party,
so smoke doesn't forty at the Smokers Club.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
You know, I love the Smokers Club.
Speaker 11 (44:04):
I already know, already know, and you better be there, and.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Al forty never looked this high. I'm nervous, were sweat.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
You don't care about a little smoky in there. Holy smoky.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
It's happening this Saturday, and thank god, I'm gonna be
here this Saturday.
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Thank god.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Take an uber, guys, because you know, we want to
make sure everybody, for sure, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
I would definitely take an uber or you the driving.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Was everybody, And make sure y'all listen to a calm
wolf is still a wolf?
Speaker 4 (44:35):
I forgot that was that my last album?
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Oh thank you?
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Yeah, and I think you have one more before you Yeah.
Speaker 10 (44:43):
I just started working again. Okay, yeah, so I'm in
the lab working morning right now. Yeah, I feel I
forget to be honest with you, I work a lot.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
I work a lot.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
All right, Well, thank you so much to SASP and
Smoke Disner for joining me. You can watch the full
interview on my YouTube channel a Way Up with Ye. Also,
make sure you get those tickets for Smoke Business fortieth
birthday party. Everyone's going to be there, including Pete Rock, Statics,
select A, Beanie Siego, Freeway, Conway, Big krit All right,
there's gonna be a lot of special guests and I'm
(45:15):
sure if you smoke you'll have a good time when
we come back.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
We have the last word. It's way up with Angela yee.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Take up the phone, tappying to get your voice heard.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
What the word? He's the last word on Way Up
with Angela?
Speaker 4 (45:28):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
What's up? His Way up with Angela?
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (45:31):
I'm Angela Yee. And thank you so much to John
Last for guest hosting today.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yoh, it's always good hanging with you.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Why are you left me?
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Love me?
Speaker 2 (45:39):
You know, we were just looking at this new Joe
Rogan deal.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
He just did a new deal with Spotify that's worth
up to two hundred and fifty million dollars baseball money.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Yeah, what do you study your podcast tonight. What are
we doing? Heyady?
Speaker 9 (45:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Tonight?
Speaker 2 (45:58):
All right?
Speaker 3 (45:59):
Well again, thank you to smoke Dezzi and to styles
Pifa joining us today.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Thank you to you.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Guys, the real stars of the show. Make sure y'all
download Blap the.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
App, download and follow Blap the app on Instagram. Please,
I'm only like fifty follows away from ten thousand, so
let's try to get into ten thousand follows value? Yes? Please? Yes,
please the.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Value from all of our pages.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Yes, lay up and then maybe get to ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Yeah, follow from your fake pages. Whatever you need to do,
whatever you do, we'll take it all right. Well, you
guys always have the last word.
Speaker 9 (46:32):
I slept with my dand's wife after I was the
best man in this wedding, and since then I have
district for myself and my father because I feel a
shame for having sex with his wife on numerous occasions.
I hate him even again with her.
Speaker 7 (46:47):
Good morning, and this is Elizabelle Folly, Madam Montjomery, Alabama.
I'm gonna stand the light on my silf cause today
is February second, National Heart Day. I have had living
in heart surgeries and I'm still here, going.
Speaker 6 (47:03):
Hard as ever. Yeah, I have a good weekend and
make sure you put on your reds and support Angela
Ye's Way Up, Way Up,
You are what I call ye.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's way up. But Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee on.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A Friday, and I got my guy John Alastair with
me today.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
What's happening? Happy to be here, comedian.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I see you got your Dapper Dane Gap edition sweatshirt on.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I like that, that's right. And this came from a
pop up, So don't think everybody got one of the joints.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I've never seen that one.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
That's right. You never seen this one.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yes, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's one of one.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
John Last and I have been friends for quite some time.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But what I love is that it is Black History Month,
day two and everything that you do centers around black businesses.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Everything that I do now with this app, yeah, it's
it's and it's Black History Month. You know what though,
can I just tell you this fun fact? Let's do
this right up top. Do you know that the average
person spends a little less than two percent of their
income on black owned businesses?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And we wonder why we're in this hole? So I
just want to get that out there. We lost forty
seven percent of all storefront businesses during lockdown. Some of
those are coming back. Forty seven percent of black owned businesses.
So can you imagine if white owned businesses went under
at that rate? A little under two percent of people's
income they spend on black owned businesses, can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Glad you're here with us today.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes, yes, that's a comedian, but a walking book of information.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I'm old, so walking encyclopedia.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
All right, Well, we're gonna get this show started. Smoked
Dizzit and stoles p are going to be joining us today.
Smoke Disnes's fortieth birthday celebration is actually tomorrow. It's going
to be a big deal. We'll talk about it. But
in the meantime, let's shine a light. Eight hundred two
nine two fifty one fifty. Call us up and let
us know who you want to shine a light on.
It's way up.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Turn your lights on, y'all, spreading love to those who
are doing greatness.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Shine light.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's time to shine a light on them.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's way up. But angela ye, angela yee. And John
Last is here.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
He's a comedian. So we're gonna be here laughing all
day today for no reason. But we do want to
shine a light. And today I want to shine a
light on Jessica Lewis and Ibrahim Smith. They are the
founders of Mobile Enterprises. They're the newest black owned company.
They build disaster resistant homes using sustainable construction methods. So
they have the shipping container enterprise that's recognized for the
(02:30):
affordable housing approach. You know, housing is such an important
topic right now in the United It has been for
quite some time. But we've been having a lot of
issues when it comes to affordable housing and people feeling
like I can't even ever afford to buy home, you know,
and we're in New York.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, yeah, it's really bad. Yeah, really bad. But I
mean I like the shipping container thing.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
People have been doing that also for restaurants and for
a lot of different situations, and it's efficient, it's innovative,
they said. The company's team of contractors, engineers and terror designers.
They can complete a project in less than ninety days
and it's a one stop shot for build out.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Can you imagine because my house.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Been being worked on for four years, I could have
had a house in ninety days. All right, Well, shout
out to Jessica Lewis and Ibrahim Smith from Mobile Enterprises.
Now let's talk about who you want to shine a
light on eight hundred n fifty Linda, how are you?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
I am fabulous fifty and thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Thank you, Linda. Who do you want to shine a
light on? Fabulous?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Oh my, so okay, I'm not mad.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It is.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
So I needed to take time and call for me.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, come on continue, let us know.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
And so you know I'm fabulous.
Speaker 9 (03:49):
I'm feeling good and you know I'm here.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Okay, all right, Linda, how old are you?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
I am fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Fabulously fifty eight, Linda, Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Thank you all right, take care honey, all right, bye
bye bye. All right.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well that was shining light eight hundred and two nine
two fifty one fifty. And when we come back, we
have your EE team.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We could talk about Jack Queas and Trey songs, but
because it's Black History Month, let's also focus on white
on white issues. Britney spears versus justin Timberlake. Y e
t is next, they says in the rooms, from industry
shade to all of gossip out send Angela's spelling that
EyeT all right, it is way up at Angela ye.
I'm Angela ye, and I'm here with my guy John Laster,
(04:37):
what a do comedian and founder of.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
BLAP That's what I do.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
A tech company. We have to say tech company.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Let's start off, Let's get into some yet, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
We'll start off with Britney Spears versus Justin Timberlake. Now
Justin Timberlake recently had a pop up concert in New
York and he previously has apologized to Britney Spears a
Janna je but while he was on that stage, he
was really feeling himself.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I say, apologize.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Brittney Spears went on Instagram and says someone told me
someone was talking ish about me on the streets and
she had a picture of a moon frame decide the
basketball net? She said, do you want to bring it
to the court or will you go home crying to
your mom like you did last time?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I'm not sorry. Did she just challenge her to a
game of one on one?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I didn't even notice she had skills though, like that,
Like that's a weird that's a weird duel.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Right, And you know she had also shouted out his
album before that and everything and apologized for things that
she wrote in her book. If I offended any of
the people I genuinely care about, I'm deeply sorry. I
also want to say I am in love with justin
Timberlake's new song Selfish.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It is so good. So she says that, but then
he goes.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
He comes with the backhand.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, with that, I ain't ever sorry. All right, Now,
here's something else we did not anticipate happening. Jack Queeses
and Trey's Songs apparently had a physical altercation.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Here is what Jacqueese had to say about it.
Speaker 10 (06:14):
I want the web to know this chance Trey Songs
is a this came in the club talking about right
then you come outside the club and swing on your
little brother bottom.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That ain't even my You're a rapist and I don't
give a if you tell.
Speaker 11 (06:28):
Anybody anything about what we textured, putting the message on
the bro you can never come around.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So apparently they're out in Dubai and the I think
the craziest part, well, there's two crazy parts of this. Yeah,
there's security that worked there standing around and he's pointing
at the security and he's like, there wasn't even with me.
They was with the workers with the workers, and the
guys are standing there like, what do we have to
do this? And then he posted some of his dreads
(07:00):
the Tray songs allegedly yanked out and he said, f
Trey songs can't come back to Atlanta?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Have now? I do want to?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Can we spend the mic over to Navy who runs
our boards. He is currently bald, but previously he did
have dreads.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So he can tell us about He could tell us
about the trauma of when your dreads come out, it'll fight.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Have you ever had your your dreads yet? Because that
looks painful.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This it looks very.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
There's like five dreads on the table. So what happened?
So that happened to you twice? It's not something I
recommend ever, Well, we would never recommend that. So what
happened when they get pulled out? Did you have a
bald spot?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Pretty much?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It's like a patch of just where your dread was.
It's very painful. If your light skin light me, it
turns red. You gotta get it sewed back in the
lost dreads? Yeah pretty much?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
All right, Well you got so you got the dreads
sold back in so jaquis. Could I guess you can
get it back?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yo? Let me tell you something. I know that's got
to be crazy, because have you ever had one hair
pulled out?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm a woman. We had that done all the time,
so it's really nothing. I heard it wrong when it
came out of my head.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh yeah, it sounded like cloth being there was there blood, No,
but it was extremely red. Yeah, extremely all right, Well
I'm hurting right now. It's just like, you know what,
and I feel your pain. It's just like when guys
always talk about, oh, she kicked me in the oh yeah,
and then I'm like, ooh, but I don't know what
that feels like for real, but imagine it hurts. All right, Well,
(08:26):
that is your Yet when we come back, we have
about last night. That's where we discussed what we did
last night. I feel like I've been doing something every day.
But I did go see a Broadway play and we'll
talk about that. But in the meantime, she's having an
amazing twenty twenty four while everything else is a little crazy.
Victoria Monett on My Mama, Yea last.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Night, So about last night?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Last night?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Last night, I went down.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's way up at Angela Yee. I'm Angela ye my guy.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
John Laster, comedian and tech founder of Black is Here, John.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
What did you do last night?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Last night? You know what? It's crazy. I went to
a It was comedy and tech, but it was a roast,
so it was people pitching new tech businesses. And then
there was a bunch. Yes, yes, it was a roasting.
I was at a roasting shark tank.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So did you host or were you?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know what? I just went to support my my
business partner. My business partner created Venmo and he has
a new app called jelly Jelly, and he was pitching
jelly Jelly.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
What is jelly Jelly.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Jelly Jelly is an audio app that will transcribe conversations
that you have and then you can send it to people.
It's really dope. Make sure you download jelly Jelly.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I like that?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, but he created Was it funny at least? No?
It was brutal. They lit him up. No, it was
not funny. So you oh my, I wanted to tackle
some of the people because I'm sitting there rooting for
him and there was people slicing and dicing it.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Have you ever been roasted?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I have been roasted. Yeah, I've been in roast.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I don't know if I could want to do that
if you want to roast somebody or get roasted.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I don't know. I think that's how we all kind
of started as comedians. Definitely black comedians. We all snapping
on each other. That is a fact. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, yesterday I went to go see Wicked on Broadway.
And you know, Wicked has been on Broadway for a while,
and this is my first time going to see it,
and it was amazing. So the fact is, everybody, when
I told them I was going to see Wicked, wanted
to go.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And so my friend Kim Osorio, she came to me.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
She was so excited. She was like she was actually
up here and she was like, You're going to see Wicked.
Oh my god, can I come?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Can I come? I want to go with you. I
want to go see Wicked.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I was with Erika Alexander the other day we went
to go see The Lion King, and she was talking
about Wicked while we were there and how much she
loves Wicked and the music that's in there, and I
want to say, it is amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Do you know what it's about.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I don't know what it's about, but I've heard from
a number of people that it's really, really dope.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh, it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It's basically the story of the two witches from the
Land of Oz, you know, Glenda, the good Witch and
then the wicked Witch of the West Alpha Alpha, and
so it kind of puts a twist to the story.
But it is really really amazing. And when I tell
you like, they did an amazing job. Everybody Broadway is
amazing to me because you really can't mess up.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's not you get to shoot it again.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You have to be on on that percent all the time,
and if you do mess up, the audience does not know.
So if anything didn't go right, I had no idea.
But it was amazing. Like the stage design. It was
sold out on a you know, and it's been there
for so long, so clearly quite a popular play.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All right, you said you're gonna go see it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm definitely going to see it.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, it was really really good. So shout out to
everybody from Wicked on Broadway. When we come back, though,
you're gonna love this. Tell us a secret eight hundred
two nine two fifty one fifty years a number you
can call us up and tell us a secret.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
The other day, A keen Woods was here, Yes, well,
tell us a secret. And somebody called in and ruined
his friend's toilet. He did, I guess he lifted the
top of the toilet the tank and he pooped in there.
It's called the upper decker, which I never knew, but
it ruins your toilet. And I saw people in the
comments like, yeah, I put shrimp in someone's I didn't
know that ruins your toilet.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
What type of white boys decker?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I had no idea. All right, well eight hundred two
fifty one fifty. Call us up and tell us a secret.
We're not here to judge you.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We just want to listen and laugh. It's way up.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
This is a judgment. Free ze own, tell us a secret.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Its way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee, and
John Laster is here with me today. John, you ready
for tell us a secret.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I'm very ready for tell us a secret.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Now, listen. It don't always got to be about relationships.
It could be all kinds of things. We've heard people
call up and tell a secrets that they've never told
anyone before.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But we are not here to judge you.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Eight hundred nine two fifty one fifty Anonymous Carlair, what's
your secret?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
You to date this guy? Everything was good. I don't
know if he knew, but he had a major.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Problems with bed buzz.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
I didn't realize this. How went to his crib, you know,
were having a good time and then like the back
of my ankles just started itching like real mad, and
I'm like the hell, So I go, I go home,
and I see I got a bunch of like bite marks.
I don't say anything. I keep this secret for like
two three months. And he starts saying some new girl
and she gets eating up and she blames him for
(13:20):
giving her skapies or whatever, and I spent quiet ever since.
I always act like I didn't know. Say, I don't
know if he ever changed that mattress, but I hope.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So I'm just saying the bed bugs died.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But now, but what what made you not tell him?
Speaker 13 (13:37):
Like?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Why didn't you want to tell him?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Because like how you fringer bad like crip.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
And you over here netflix and biting.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
But why would you want to leave other people out
for that?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
And listen, I don't care he didn't tell me. I
ain't telling nobody else.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I was been babrassed yea, because you know what, it
probably was crabbed in there too with the bed bugs.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It was a whole community.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I've never had bed bugs or like experience that. I
can't even imagine what that would be like.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
I never had that in my life.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Did you ever see him again after that? Or was
that at the end of the relationship.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
No, that was the end of it. I broke up
with him.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
I never told him nothing. The next girl he was daying,
she was a battie like me, and she got bit
the hell up too?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well, how you out of here?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Told everybody?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So she ended the bug saga way.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
He didn't know, Blake, I hope you changed the sheet.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Oh okay, okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Shout out to all the baddies.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yes, shout out. Shout out to people that killed bed bugs.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, shout out to the bed bug baddies.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
This is the bed bug batties.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Mis call it. How are you?
Speaker 8 (14:47):
How much your soul?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
How good is me? And John?
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Last?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Did we want to hear your secret?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
My secret is that my my current girlfriend doesn't know
that I slept with her son.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh whoa, so you said for her side? So she
doesn't know that you even know she has a side piece.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Yeah, she doesn't know that I and I know that
she had the piece.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
How did you find out?
Speaker 8 (15:09):
One night I was going through her phone and I
saw that she starts talking to some boy and I
had texted him off of my phone, and I asked them, like,
are you guys messing.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Around or like what's going on?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
And he said yeah, I've been sleeping with us. So
I was like, okay, you want to try to get
her called up? And we do?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So you don't mind, you do men and women?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Yeah, I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I do any So did y'all continue to pursue like
your thing with the side piece?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Did you like it was a good?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Now he don't want to leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And you don't want to leave him alone?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
E there, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh, so you like this guy?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Now I do like this guy, and I'm going to
get rid of her.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Wow, imagine that your main piece link up, but your
side piece and now you single?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Now she the side piece?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Are you going to tell you?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Just you just you about to piece.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
I was on some of her because me and him
been messing around for like over over two three months.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Wow, it's messy, but we like it. Thank you for
calling no judgment, no judgment?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Well that was tell us a secret eight hundred and
two nine fifty one fifty in case you couldn't get through.
And when we come back, we have your yee tea
and let's talk Wendy Williams. I did not expect this
chairler to come out. We'll talk about it. It's way up.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh, she's about to blow the lid ab off this five.
Let's get it. Oh angelus feeling that yeeee come and
get your tea.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
All right, it is way I put it into he
on a Friday, I'm here and John Laster is.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Here with me.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, make sure y'all check him out to what's your Instagram?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
My instagram is? He was funny?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He was funny.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
He was funny, Yes, he was funny.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
All right.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Well, Wendy Williams is in a documentary, A lifetime documentary
is called Where Is Wendy Williams? And this is where
she has the opportunity to finally tell what's been going
on her own mouth about alcohol abuse and financial problems
that she's having her guardianship. Here's what that trailer sounds like.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I really want to be back on television.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
My mom has done a great job making it seem
like everything is okay, but in reality, there's something going on.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Did you see a neurologist to find that if I'm crazy,
I have no money.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
If it happens to me, it could happen to you.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
As her family, we were all sitting on the sidelines
watching and she was crying out for help.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Did you drink this whole thing today? I miss my family?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Woo. All right.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, that documentary will be released as a two night
event and as you can see, some of her family
members are on the documentary as well, detailing everything.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What do you think, John, why do you look like that?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah? I think it's funny that she said if it
could happen to me, it could happen to you. No, everybody,
don't sit around try to kill careers all day. Good day. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Well, she does have a sickness, so you know I
have a sickness. That is true.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, so don't do that. Don't do that. I've been
to rehab four times.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Okay, you're right, and you're right, and you know I
do know, yes, because I was like, you need to
go to rehab.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yes, I've been to detox rehab, been patient, out patient,
up patient, down patient. Have you been cleaned almost five years?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
That's great?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yes, yes, almost five years.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And it's always one day at a time.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Still you right about that?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well, Victoria have Monet was on with Gil King and
you know the Grammys are this weekend, by the way,
so Gil King asked her some questions also dealing with
the LGBTQ community, because Victoria Money has openly said that
she does like men and women.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
The thirty four year old is believed to be making
history with the most Grammy nominations of an openly queer
black woman artist in a single year.
Speaker 14 (19:02):
It took so long to feel comfortable enough to say anything,
so I feel now is the time to stand my
ground and be proud of what I am and who
I am.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
All right, see, congratulations. People love Victoria Mooney's album, and
she's just a sweet person in general when you meet
her in real life. And speaking of the Grammys, Rock
Nation is not going to host their annual pre Grammy
brunch this year. I don't know what was behind that decision,
but that Rock Nation brunch used to have people in
a tizzy. Okay, when I tell you people posting their
(19:36):
pictures walking up to the brunch. In the brunch, jay
Z in the background, Beyonce there.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You know what's upsetting to me about this. I finally
got to invite you did not cancer, But that's what
I would be telling people. Yo, you know, I got
to invite this, and then they gazzled it.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You know they've been doing this since twenty eleven. There
was a hiatus because of COVID. I've been to the
Runch before. I feel like I went before.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
It became humble brag.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
The huge to do that, it is no because this
was before it was like everybody like rock Nation Brunch.
So yeah, but now we don't have to worry about
people hating from outside the club.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
N No, I guess I'm not gonna make it all
right with that. We take that suit back, Oh take
my back.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I know you would have looked so nice there too.
You're right, all right, you're not even gonna be in LA.
But that's a different story. But that is your Yet
when we come back, we have under the radar. These
are the stories that are not necessarily in the headlines.
They are flying under the raidar. And I know the
first question that you have guys. You guys have for
us today? Did the groundhog see his shadow? We'll talk
about it when we come back.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's way up.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
It's in the news that relates to you. These stories
are flying under the radar.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
It's way I put angela ye, I'm angela yee, and
John Last is here with me today.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You're ready for these under the radar stories totally? All right?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well, the groundhog today is the day he had to
wake up and we have to see whether or not
he saw his shadow. Why are you laughing already because
of groundhogging?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Because a ground hoogging?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You didn't know what groundhogging was anyone else? Yes he did.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I'll just have you know neither did anyone else.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
All right, Well, groundhogging is when the definition that I
have a groundhogging. It's kind of like when the groundhog
peaks out whether or not he sees his shadow. Is
when you have to go to the bathroom and do
a number two, but you have to hold it so
maybe it goes out, but you suck it back in.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's like that. That's groundhogging.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
This is what annoys you said it like it was
like a normal thing, like like like in everyday conversation.
People are like, yo, you know I was groundhogging.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I ex everybody when you're trying to put the key
in the door and no one.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Talks about it, that's not like common vernacular.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
All right, Well, if you all want to know if
the groundhog was ground hogging, apparently he walked up and
did not see his shadow this morning means that it
will be in early spring.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So that's what that means. Okay, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. That's when ground hogging.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Goes right, goes right.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Now the rock he is expected to become a billionaire
because of his to kill the brand Teamana. You know
how much that brand is valued at three point five
billion dollars, So congratulations to him for that. Member George
Cooney when he sld Casamigos, he sold it four billion dollars.
And so now they're saying Tea Mana is valued at
(22:31):
three point five billion dollars. And we don't know what
his ownership steak is in Tea Mana. It's not publicly
known because he does have other partners in that. But
say he had a thirty percent equity steak, then.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
He would be a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, a billion, a billion just from that alone.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
That's a good chunk.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
And right now they're saying his net worth is eight
hundred million dollars and so this could really take him
over the top. All right, well that is you're under
the radar. Now we do have the way of coming
at the top of the hour. Plus, we got two
special guests joining us today, styles Pe and Smoke Dizza.
Smoke Dizza is having his fortieth birthday this weekend, the
(23:08):
Smoker the Smokers Club. A lot of big guests are
going to be coming through, like Big Cret Conway of course,
styles Pe, Beanie Siego, Freeway, Pete Rock. We'll talk about it.
It's way up. She's like the like they Angela Jean
like they Angela Jean Man.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
She's spilling it all. This is yat way.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yes, it is way up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I'm Angela Yee and my guy, comedian and tech founder
of Black John Lester is here with me today.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I'm sorry, I'm looking at ourselves talking about tell us
a secrets on Instagram. But you know it's time for
some ut plus some new music Friday. So let's start
it off with Ea Ray. She is planning two new
shows with HBO on the network, and even though she's
had some missues, you know, rap Ish, which was my
show after two seasons, got canceled, but she does have
(24:00):
two other shows on the way, so she'll create, write
and start in.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You know, we'll see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I missed seeing her in a show too, because Insecure
was my Yeah, you know, she was.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
She was recently talking about that. She you know, she
felt some kind of way about a lot of the
shows that were picked up and being pushed that she
feels like a lot of the black led shows are
being pushed out.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
That the George Floyd effect was kind of short lived.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
So we see that all over with corporate America too.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You had all these.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Plans and the money and then now they're like, all right,
back to business.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Now. DMC has announced two run DMC biopics in the works.
So DMC previously was against the idea, but he told
All Hip Hop in an interview that was published yesterday
that he didn't like the idea of jumping into that
crowded lane, but working on the new docu Memory Kings
from Queens got him to see things differently.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I'm excited to see this.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
By the way, translation they went up on the money.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
You think that's what that means?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
You translate that for you.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Check And honestly, like NWA straight out of Compton, it
was amazing and I think we need more of those biopics, you.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Know, absolutely, those are my favorite movies to watch.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Honestly, Run DMC is arguably arguably the most consequential group
of all time.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah so, and we've never had a chance to see
them like this, so I think it's going to be
really groundbreaking. All right, Well, let's get into some new music.
Shout out to my guy, I swear Vezzo. Live from
the Six is out today, and here is a snippet
from a song that he actually premiered up here on
Way Up with angela Ye when he guests hosted It's
Perfect featuring the Baby Something Perfect.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
All right.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Another thing that he's doing in Detroit today is he
is making uh the six mile line the free all
day today. So Live from the six comes out, came
out today, and you can ride all day for free
on that line. So shout out to ice Wear Vessel
Solja Boy Swag six is out to your kurn almost there.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Her EP is out today.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Also new Usher, as we're gearing up for the super
Bowl next week. Here's Usher featuring Fields with Ruin.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Good.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
That is a vibe.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Like it. USh is timeless, I know, and his album's
coming out next week. Also it's called Coming Home.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
JT has a new song out called Sideways Down Tulliver
Were Banded, Cash Doll has Big One out.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You know, I love some Cash Doll.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Daniel Caesar has Waiting in Vain off that uh one love.
Bob Marley soundtracks a lot of new music at today.
Shout out to Pretty Braa. She has Dirty Fantasies out
but it's so dirty we could not play it at all.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And she's on lip service right now. But when I say.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Dirty, okay, Pretty Brea, and you get to hear Mary J.
Blige wrapping all right here and Vado on Beautiful Life.
Speaker 12 (27:08):
Show you how to win because with me on a
cheat cold, then move out.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
A cheat okay, Mary all right?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
And that is your yet slash New music Friday, and
when we come back. Since John Laster is here, he's
telling us so many stories behind the scenes, we got
to bring some of these to the air. I mean,
we've talked about bed bugs, cocaine, crabsgen all right, it's.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Way up, fab way up with Angela Yee more now.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yes, it's way up with Angela Ye. I'm Angela Yee
and John Laster is here with me on a Friday. Friday,
the second day of Black History Month. And you, John Laster,
every single day of your existence right now, are focused
on making sure that people shop with black owned businesses.
So I want people to know you're not just a comedian,
but you're also a tech founder.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I am a tech founder, and I was saying earlier
that people don't realize that, like just under two percent
is what the average person spends their income on black
owned businesses. And we gotta up that help is not coming,
you know what I mean. I have a clip it's
really sad of Martin Luther King, and I know this
is gonna freak people out, saying that the things that
(28:20):
he tried had failed, and that's when he died. Martin
said that the legislation that he had passed, the sit ins,
the marches, he said, had failed. He at the end
of his life. Wow, they show us the nonsensical stuff,
and I wish we could get away from that. And
what he says is we need an economic solution to
these problems.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That's a fact.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yes, this not me, don't take my word for me.
Tech founder Martin Luther King said that that other stuff
that he had tried, waiting on white folks to wake
up and say, oh, what was done to them is wrong.
Let's find a way to correct it is never gonna happen. Stop.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
So that power is gonna come within us.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That power is gonna come today at lunch. Where do
you order lunch?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Where did you buy your toothbrush? Where is your who's
your dentist, who's your doctor, who's your lawyer? That is
the answer, period, full stop.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And we were talking off the air, and we were
discussing how you like to talk in front of audiences,
but like I like the young people, I like to
energize them. But I was also saying that it is
important to make money for the purpose of being able
to empower other people.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Like.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Part of why I think we should want to make
money is that it does. Money does influence a lot
of things. It influences elections and laws to be passed
and being even able to run for office or support
somebody who's running for office. But it also allows you
the ability to be able to invest in other people. Yes,
so once you have your successful people investing in you,
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people investing in your business, that's when we can pay
it forward to Right.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
But let me tell you why I think there's I
have a slight problem with that. Yes, we do need money,
and I totally agree with that, but take for example,
a lot of folks that we have in the black
community that have money. If you don't know what to
do with the money, what does it matter. If we
don't understand that, the importance of rental properties, the importance
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of life insurance, the importance of putting money in the
stock market, what does it matter? Right, We're going to
be stuck in the same place.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And that's why I love when we had I saw
you were excited that we had Ireland up here, arlin.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Oh yes, yes, I never met her first million.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
And she has a fund and she's able to help
invest in other people. And I like the Fearless Fund,
all of these different funds that people are able to
create that actually helps businesses so to be more organized like.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
That, And she understands that. But that's what I mean
about the knowledge. If we don't have the knowledge, then
even if you have money, what does it matter, you
know what I mean. That's why I said I don't know.
I take a lot of pride in talking to younger
people because they get it and we can change the
way that they think about things early on, letting them know.
Trying that Martin path is never gonna get the car
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out of the ditch if you do not change, if
we do not change our spending habits. You know, they
say that the wealth in the black community is going
to dwindle to zero by twenty fifty three.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, I keep it.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The circulation of the black dollar has reached a crawl.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well listen, Black Okay is the app.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
People can download it now and that will show you
some black owned businesses that you can spend your money at,
Amazing black owned businesses like cup coffee, up lifts people.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yes, all right, listen, when we come back. We have asked.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Ye eight hundred two nine fifty one fifty is a number.
Call us up, let us know anything that you need.
We are here to help you out. It's me, It's
John Lasser. It's way up everybody.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Since, whether it's relationship or career advice, Angela's dropping facts.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You should know. If this is ask kee, what's up?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Is way up? But Angela yee.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I'm Angela Ye and my guy John Lasterer is here
with me and it's time for ask ye. Eight hundred
two nine two fifty one fifty is a number any
question you have, we want to help you out.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Today. We have a Lisa on the line with that. Lisa, Hi,
how are you good? How are you? It's me and
John las Yar.
Speaker 9 (32:06):
Why y'all?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yo, how's it going? Thanks for calling in?
Speaker 8 (32:10):
It's no problem is bad?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Well tell us your question, Lisa.
Speaker 13 (32:14):
You all were just talking about supporting black businesses.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
But in my experience, and.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
I'm a black woman, I when I try to support
I always run.
Speaker 13 (32:23):
Into the unfriendliness, the poor customer service. We have to
change that narrative as well. It can't just be black
business let's go support them. In my experience, I'm not
speaking for all black businesses.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
We have as black business owners.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
Appreciate the customers that do support them.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
And a lot of times, you know, they say people if.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
You treat them bad.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
They tell everybody to treat them good.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
They don't tell.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Anybody, so all we hear about is the bad customers.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
So how do we change that narrative?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I would disagree with that there's bad customer services across
the board. There's over sixty thousand businesses on my app,
and there's no way in the world that there's sixty
thousand places that have bad customer service. You may just
need to find some other places to shop.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
And Lisa, I do want to say this because I
do feel like there is this narrative right that black
owned businesses aren't as professional, Like we hear it all
the time, but I want to say that a lot
of times I can go into a business that's not
a black owned business and have a negative experience.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
But I feel like black owned.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Businesses are held to a different standard totally, because sometimes
we go to a white establishment or you know, something
other and we don't expect to be treated We're like,
oh my god, they were rude. But you know what,
I'm gonna just be quiet and my my business. Everybody
wants to come to this restaurant eat it. Yeah, I'm
just gonna eat it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Customer service is okay, the bathroom's dirty, we don't say
nothing right, but the cd.
Speaker 12 (33:42):
I generally bad customer service is across the board. But
what you all are talking about, I heard you say
that money in the black community will be dried up soon.
And we have to take that knowledge and we all
have to do better. We as the consumers do have
to support.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yes, Yes, as a small business owner, we have to
appreciate the people that do come.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And you know what, Lisa, oftentimes, unfortunately we as black people,
think that there needs to be these wild, sweeping, dramatic changes.
It's not true. Think about it. If we consciously thought
about where we ate lunch once a week, or if
we own a small business, when we order flowers, when
we order wine, we order cupcakes, you could do all
of that on black. But if we thought about it
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and made an effort to buy a black on toothbrush.
There's dish washing detergent, there's laundry detergent, the things that
we normally do. There's cleaning supplies. But even if we
started to do those things and we were cognizant of it.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
When you go to Target, when you go to the
supermarket and you're like, you know what this is Patty
Labelle's brand.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yes, this is Angela's coffee uplifts people?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Well, yeah, well the coffee like Angela has coffee. We
all drink coffee every morning. What if we decided, you
know what, I'm gonna spend my money every morning just
with the coffee to remind me in the morning, with
my toothbrush or my coffee, to try to support some
black owned businesses during the day because help is not coming.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
What city are you in? I okay, shout out to Arlington, Virginia.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Well, you know what, everybody from Arlington, Virginia, just tag
us with your black owned business on way up with
you and Lisa, go take a look at some of those.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
When people start with you, I need.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You to follow black the app and everybody tag Keith
Lee because we're gonna try to get Keith Lee to
promote black owned restaurants during.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Three months and it helps a lot.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Because I'm gonna tell you what else too, Lisa, we
do have some different types of circumstances when we own businesses.
A lot of times we have to fund our own businesses,
we have to bootstrap, we have to work in our
own businesses. We don't have enough employees because we don't
get access to that capital that gives us the ability
to be able to you know, hire and spend on
marketing and spend on different things.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
So we do have a unique set of challenges.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
But I will say I have been to some amazing
some of my favorite places. I don't even think about like,
oh this is black owned. I just go there because
I love it. And that's what we really want, right
and that's that's always the goal. So you know, I
see you said with your experiences, so hopefully you'll try
out some new things and change it. You know, I'm
gonna be looking at Arlington, Virginia now to see what
y'all got at.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Hopefully you jump on blap and find some find some
doper places to check out. Listen, Yes, thank you so much,
thank you for your insight.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Okay, thank you all right, Well that is ask ye.
That was perfect for you, John, that was perfect eight fifty.
In case you couldn't get through it, you could leave
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we come back, we have a special gut well, two
special guests Smoke Dizza and Stoles p. They're black owned
business owners the Smokers Club Okay, Pharmacy for Life and
(36:33):
Smoke dis is having his fortieth birthday party this weekend,
so make sure you guys listen.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Smoke Disney and stoles P is next. It's way up,
Turn up you vibing.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Way up with Angela Yee more now what's up? It's
way up with Angela Yee and I mean way up
and we gotta stop ping. Smoke dizzit here with me today.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Right right right.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
First of all, thank you all for coming through. I
appreciate it. This is my new show and not the
one of you have been here yet.
Speaker 11 (36:59):
Look, it's the first time for everything. I'm just happy
I'm in the building.
Speaker 10 (37:03):
I said, I was waiting after I didn't know what happened, right,
that's crazy, you know.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Congratulations, it'll be one year for my show. Yeah, February sixth, Wow, birthday,
and let's talk about your birthday because you have a
big party.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
I feel like I need to be there.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
You definitely need to be there. You know.
Speaker 11 (37:22):
This is a personal invite, okay, and it's all it's
at Urban Plaza with my big brother Styles P, Big
Craig Conway, the Machine and start studying, start studying.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Freeway.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Oh, Pete Rock is going to be there by the
way you and Pete rock together amazing.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Look, I say you got your braces.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
How is that affecting you as an artist now too?
Speaker 10 (37:49):
I had to just performing and going into booth. I
just couldn't do Venias. I felt like I felt like
I knew I would get a big pair, like you
know what I mean. I just didn't want a big pair,
Like I'm like, I know my luck, it's not gonna
And then I could have did the in visit line,
but I smoked too much. Right, I'm definitely gonna lose it,
forget it, drop it, and keep having to do it.
(38:10):
So I'm like, let me just get my time over
with and just put my teeth in jail for a.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Couple of months.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Okay, So it's not that long.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
You have to have the money now, I have about
I think eight months left right now.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Smoke does it? And Style's per here.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Well, listen, I want to ask you guys with so
much going on right now, and of course I'm gonna
ask you about Megan thee Stallion versus Nicki Minaj and
when it comes to battles, is there anything that's off
the table Because I hear people saying that they're upset.
They don't like the fact that NICKI brought up you know,
Meghan's mother and things like that, and that's where you
draw the line.
Speaker 11 (38:40):
I think it was light, to be honest, I mean
the eraor that I grew up watching like these guys,
you know what I mean, Like it was you know,
it was cool, But I don't think it was. I
think people were blowing it out of proportion because it's
too sensitive nowadays.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
I didn't hear it.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Oh you didn't even listen to it.
Speaker 10 (38:59):
I mean in my own world. But it's like a fight.
You can't tell a person how to fight. You have
to expect the person to go all out and want
to win the altercation by all means necessary. So I
get wanted to see. I personally would like to see
a lot more unity within the ladies of rap, because
nobody wants to see black queens going at each other
(39:19):
like that. I'm forty nine, so the new generation is
soft to me with everything in life, Like everything in
life is kind of soft. Like I don't like that
everybody gets a trophy era. Okay, it's not cool, Like
you suck, Yeah, you suck. You don't deserve the trophy.
The winner gets the trophy, Like, do better next time
and get the trophy.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
But you know, that's my personal opinion.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
In the midst of all of your beast, what was
the time that you were most offended?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Were you?
Speaker 10 (39:45):
Like, well, man, our partners with I guess we're funny
because we would play the disrecords.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
It'd be like that was.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Funny, Okay, so that was good, Like we.
Speaker 10 (39:53):
Would go about it like he said that that was funny.
That was that was hilarious, Like you know what I mean,
And then you get back in the studio and go
back to at it. I think if they go hard
enough at some point, then they will meet the middle
ground and become cool.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (40:06):
That's what's wrong with lady hip hop beef. I don't
think they know when to squash it and then make
the best of it.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I do feel like when women beef, it's like forever,
it's forever, Like.
Speaker 10 (40:15):
They don't it's getting back, it's no noning, like like uh.
The only beef I ever felt personal was with Rocketfeller,
because I really we were pretty much in the same
places all the time and we had a certain type
of relationship, so it felt more personal plus we were
way more egotistical and prideful and stupid, right, so.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
It kind of just felt different.
Speaker 10 (40:40):
But like with you and It, I used to be
like I used to laugh, like I used to be,
Like Yo, fifty is a funny guy in the studio,
Like Yo, he is hilarious. Hopefully they're at some point though,
because they I think what they should realize and what
people should say is it's not about drawing the lines,
because once it's on and on, it's about having a
(41:02):
healthy respect for each other and watching who's coming up
behind you and then you guys together are stronger.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Than probably a part.
Speaker 10 (41:11):
But a lot of people are not going to tell
you that because they're gonna want to see y'all y'all separate.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
I'm gonna give this a.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Listen, Yeah, please, because you're, like I feel like you
are the beef connoisseur, the vegans beef connoisseur.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
At be pretty much pretty much pretty much, I'm gonna
give it.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
I'm gonna give it a listen.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
All right, Smoke Dizzit is here for his fortieth birthday
party that's going to be going down tomorrow at Irving Plaza. Also,
my guys styles Pe. We have more with them when
we come back. It's way up with Angela Yee.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Five, way up with Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
More. Now what's up this way up at the Angela Yee.
I'm Angela Yee and Styles Pe and Smoke Dizza are
here with me today. Now, Styles, I know you've been
doing a lot of things in the community.
Speaker 10 (41:55):
I actually just left city Hall before I got here
on a meeting. And how to upgrade more parks, how
to find centers for the youth, getting the kids involved
in jobs that are landing with you know, for one
kid's benefits. So we're you know, we're working on making
sure we change and hold the people in power responsible
(42:18):
and make them share the power, not ask them to
share the power, but yeah, make them power when the
city's going to change.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah, that's why it's important for us to be involved
when it comes to elections.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Everything.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Like we can say this is they don't do anything,
but what are we doing to make sure that they're
doing what they have to do?
Speaker 9 (42:35):
It?
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Smoked is it?
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Let's talk about you for a second. I see you
said that you and Pete Rock are working on doing
a part two.
Speaker 11 (42:42):
Yeah, me and Pete been working on that for a
little minute. Now be about to roll out of project
with Common.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah, I saw Common talking about it.
Speaker 11 (42:49):
It's crazy, that's huge, and then we're probably going to
release I think maybe like.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
The summer when I first started, when I was younger,
I wanted to be a DJ. He told me HE'SDJ
and he actually gave me a whole bunch of records too. Yeah,
so he was like, I do still I still have
the records. I got my turntables from DJ mugs from
Cypress Hill. I helped him do it. I helped him
(43:15):
do a deal and he was like, what can I
do to thank you? And I said, I want to
get some turntables and he had a deal with new Mark,
so he got me turntables. And then look Special K
and Teddy Ted and Pete Rock gave me vinyl.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I remember.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
It was a bunch of different DJs that actually helped
me out, and they were like, just come, I got you.
I'll give you some records. And that's really how it happened.
I'm gonna be honest. The only reason I didn't DJ
fully back then was because carrying the greats it was
so hard to do because it's not like today where
you have serato and you can just you know, put
everything on the laptop.
Speaker 10 (43:48):
And I respect that was born for this.
Speaker 11 (43:52):
We need that in an atmosphere one time.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
But anyway, listen you guys.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
I know everybody's got things on their schedule, but I
wanted to make sure y'all came up here before the party,
so smoke doesn't forty at the Smokers Club.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
You know, I love the Smokers Club.
Speaker 11 (44:04):
I already know, already know, and you better be there, and.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Al forty never looked this high. I'm nervous, were sweat.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
You don't care about a little smoky in there. Holy smoky.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
It's happening this Saturday, and thank god, I'm gonna be
here this Saturday.
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Thank god.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Take an uber, guys, because you know, we want to
make sure everybody, for sure, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
I would definitely take an uber or you the driving.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Was everybody, And make sure y'all listen to a calm
wolf is still a wolf?
Speaker 4 (44:35):
I forgot that was that my last album?
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Oh thank you?
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Yeah, and I think you have one more before you Yeah.
Speaker 10 (44:43):
I just started working again. Okay, yeah, so I'm in
the lab working morning right now. Yeah, I feel I
forget to be honest with you, I work a lot.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
I work a lot.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
All right, Well, thank you so much to SASP and
Smoke Disner for joining me. You can watch the full
interview on my YouTube channel a Way Up with Ye. Also,
make sure you get those tickets for Smoke Business fortieth
birthday party. Everyone's going to be there, including Pete Rock, Statics,
select A, Beanie Siego, Freeway, Conway, Big krit All right,
there's gonna be a lot of special guests and I'm
(45:15):
sure if you smoke you'll have a good time when
we come back.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
We have the last word. It's way up with Angela yee.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Take up the phone, tappying to get your voice heard.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
What the word? He's the last word on Way Up
with Angela?
Speaker 4 (45:28):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
What's up? His Way up with Angela?
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (45:31):
I'm Angela Yee. And thank you so much to John
Last for guest hosting today.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yoh, it's always good hanging with you.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Why are you left me?
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Love me?
Speaker 2 (45:39):
You know, we were just looking at this new Joe
Rogan deal.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
He just did a new deal with Spotify that's worth
up to two hundred and fifty million dollars baseball money.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Yeah, what do you study your podcast tonight. What are
we doing? Heyady?
Speaker 9 (45:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Tonight?
Speaker 2 (45:58):
All right?
Speaker 3 (45:59):
Well again, thank you to smoke Dezzi and to styles
Pifa joining us today.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Thank you to you.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Guys, the real stars of the show. Make sure y'all
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App, download and follow Blap the app on Instagram. Please,
I'm only like fifty follows away from ten thousand, so
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Speaker 3 (46:25):
Yeah, follow from your fake pages. Whatever you need to do,
whatever you do, we'll take it all right. Well, you
guys always have the last word.
Speaker 9 (46:32):
I slept with my dand's wife after I was the
best man in this wedding, and since then I have
district for myself and my father because I feel a
shame for having sex with his wife on numerous occasions.
I hate him even again with her.
Speaker 7 (46:47):
Good morning, and this is Elizabelle Folly, Madam Montjomery, Alabama.
I'm gonna stand the light on my silf cause today
is February second, National Heart Day. I have had living
in heart surgeries and I'm still here, going.
Speaker 6 (47:03):
Hard as ever. Yeah, I have a good weekend and
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