Going Way Up With April Showers CEO Of Afro Unicorn + Tell Us A Secret

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

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ye, it's way up and Angela yee. I'm Angela yee.
The gang's are here, okay, Yeah, Jasmine brand is here.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'm not just any brand. I'm my own brand.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Mana is here on the radio.

Speaker 5 (00:25):
Am I on the radio?

Speaker 4 (00:26):
As you are?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
You are?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Turn his mic on on the radio.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Okay, it'll be one of those days.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
And one of these days.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I was up late last night, okay, doing what I
was actually watching Love is Blind Binge watching. I'm gonna
talk about that later. But I was also up here
for a long time. I had a town hall. I
would past the aar Bernard.

Speaker 6 (00:46):
Oh okay, Praise Lord, praise look God.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
It's good all the time. Won't he do it?

Speaker 5 (00:53):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
He will, won't he do it?

Speaker 7 (00:56):
Won't he?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Mana? We've been watching your Challenged, Yes, watching.

Speaker 8 (01:03):
Kaya Baby say went and stepped all.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Over waiting for that one.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
They've been running that song up, Yeah, run it up,
run it up.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Who's the other person? What's his name?

Speaker 9 (01:16):
Mayo?

Speaker 10 (01:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, yeah, official, mister Mayo.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Mister Mayo.

Speaker 6 (01:21):
Yes, I'm gonna I'm gonna go through it and pick
out some of my favorite really good Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
All right, Well we have a great show for you today.
Now you see these little unicorns, afro unicorns around the room.
Now the founder of afro Unicorn, abol Showers is going
to be joining us.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
It is a wealth Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
And she has a brand that's actually all of the
major retailers in Walmarts is where she first got her brand.

Speaker 8 (01:49):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
And she has all kinds of she has books, she has,
she has oh, she has these toys, she has merchandise,
she has. Everything is already supplies, no is it for
yeah kaus? Remember a unicorn used to always be you know,
white unicorns. Can you describe afro unicorns a brown unicorn

(02:10):
with natural hair?

Speaker 8 (02:11):
Nice?

Speaker 5 (02:11):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (02:12):
And they're so cute and so we love got it?
All right?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
So April Showers will be joining us, the founder of
afro Unicorn. And in the meantime, let's shine a light.
Eight hundred nine fifty one fifty is a number. Call
us up, let us know who you would like to
shine a light on its way up with Angela.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Ye're gonna.

Speaker 11 (02:31):
Turn your lights on, y'all, spreading love to those who
are doing greatness, shine a light on.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
It's time to shine a light on them.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yes, it is way up. But Angela yee, Angela yee.
Jasmine Brand is here.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yes, I'm here.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Mana is here, No, man absolutely absolutely, and I'm gonna
shine it light today. I'm my mom because it was
her birthday yesterday, birthday. Yes, we're still.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
China between the two of us, flickering what date we
can go to dinner? Whe're you gonna go? I had
a couple of different things.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
I was thinking about taking her to perhaps Tatianas, that's
your go too, because she's never been there.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh, she would like that.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
So I thought that might be nice. And I think
she'll like the food a lot. So that's kind of
what I was thinking. But I do have other options,
so it just depends on She's more downtown. Tatianas is
in midtown. But my mom is a very funny person.
She's amazing. But ever since I was young, I remember
one of my favorite things that she used to do

(03:28):
is when I would come home from school, if she
brought me something new, like a new little outfit, it
would be laid out on the bed as seem as
like he mused to be so excited, and to this day,
the first thing I do whenever I buy new clothes
is go home and try them on again.

Speaker 12 (03:42):
You do.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
And also when you get me things bed for me,
you do that to me, Angela. You know that right
when she gives me something.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
You know what a great feeling that is to walk
into your room and there's something new on the bed.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Is that where you get shopping from your mom?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yes, my mom loves to shop to this day, my
mother's and she's a she is a habitual shot, a
chronic by the same type of look all the time.
I'm like, man, you don't have this already, you know
how some person, some people would buy the same type
of look all the time, over and over again.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
That's my mom.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
So everything that she buys, I'm like, I feel like
you have this, but okay, did you do that? So
oddly enough I wanted to send her a cake to
work and she was like, please.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Don't, please don't.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, why I.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Don't know some people now you're not. I don't respect
it when Maino says it. But it's my mom, so
it's different, Like I don't want to make you know
if I have a cake in front of me.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Oh okay, gotcha. I thought maybe she didn't want people
so she did.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
She didn't want one, but yeah, so shout out to
my mommy happy birthday. Now, who do you guys want
to shout a light on somebody special in your life,
somebody who's done something positive, whether it's a person you
know in real life or a stranger. Eight hundred two
nine fifty one fifty Matt, How are you?

Speaker 4 (04:53):
I'm good? Thank you? Would you like to shine a
light on?

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh myself?

Speaker 13 (04:57):
I just started my job today.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Oooh day what baby, let's go out?

Speaker 13 (05:04):
Yeah, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
What's this new job?

Speaker 13 (05:07):
I'm in the warehouse doing some light labor.

Speaker 14 (05:11):
Been in a while since I started working, So I'm
trying to take advantage of this running all the way up.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
That's right, running up, baby, Get in there, get to work.
You know what I'm saying. Have you met all your
co workers yet?

Speaker 4 (05:22):
No?

Speaker 15 (05:23):
I'm going in today at three thirty, so you know
I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
All right, we'll have a good time, okay, all right,
thank you so much. Get this money, baby, get that
over time and everything.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
That's sure.

Speaker 13 (05:36):
That's say.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
No, all right, all right, have a go on you too,
all right?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, that would shine a light eight hundred nine fifty
fifty in case you couldn't get through, and we have
a ute when we come back, and we'll talk about
an NFL player who is thinking about his next career,
which could be in the porn industry.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
It's a way up at Angela Yee says.

Speaker 11 (05:55):
In the rooms from industry shade to all the gossip house, Angela's.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Feeling that, all right, well let's get into some yet.
Jasmine brand is here.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yes, I'm not just I'm my own brand.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Mana was here. It's way up.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
And Tyreek Hill from the Miami Dolphins is already thinking
about what he's planning to do after football. He was
on a Twitch stream with Mike Evans from the Buccaneers
and here's what he had to say about his plans
post NFL.

Speaker 8 (06:27):
When I retire, Bro, I really want to be a
porn startup, bro, Len serious, Like you think I got that?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Whatever you want?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Bro?

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Why would that?

Speaker 5 (06:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Do you know what he looks like? Angela? Do you
know what he looks like?

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, but I don't know if that matters imporing so much.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
No, I'm trying to see if he looks like.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
You cannot look at somebody and tell.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Sometimes sometimes you can't really looks like deceptive.

Speaker 8 (06:58):
You can't.

Speaker 14 (06:58):
I have.

Speaker 6 (06:59):
I have missed a few where I'm like, oh, that's
not what I'm s expecting.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Man, this is a career you're thinking about to yeah, right,
if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 8 (07:11):
I can't even get.

Speaker 9 (07:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
I thought about that for so many for so long.
This is not a real place. I thought about that
for so long. Like, man, I think you.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Could because I think like you have a catalog already.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
You probably do that, you could roll out you thought about.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
I don't have. I don't have. I don't think I
got the heart to do it what I think you do, Like,
I just don't.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
I thought he was going to say something else.

Speaker 8 (07:42):
I just like, man, how can I get into this?
Like and I thought about starting a company. I was like,
you know what, I'm gon I'm gonna be a business own,
I'm gonna start.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
A company like to like, I feel like the poor
and ster who you ridiculed would block you from.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Enter hilarious hilario.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Okay, let's move on, all right, Okay, all right, And
Brianna Stewart has been named the w NBA MVP for
a second time.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Shout out to our New York at Liberty.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
All right, she ranked second in scoring for the season,
averaging twenty three points per game, and third in rebounding.
And in her first season with the Liberty, she led
New York to one of the best ever regular season
records thirty two and eight.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
So here's what she had to say.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
I'm really proud to be here and to have come
back from injury and taking some big risks, and to
have my wife, Marta and Ruby here means the world
to me. To be a role model to you, Ruby
is really what keeps me going. And today you get
to see your mommy win MVP.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
That's dope.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
That is huge.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
That's really By the way, she's amazing. You know, I
like to go to the Liberty games.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
You do, because when I saw her on the news
this morning, I was like, Angela, that's her girl, right yep?

Speaker 4 (08:53):
All right, now let's talk about Jay Cargill.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
I mean, I love that we are doing all these
sports news and also highlighting women in space and WWE
has announced the signing of j car Gill.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
She has signed a multi year deal.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
If you guys remember I've actually interviewed her a couple
of times. She's a former All Elite wrestling star and
she's going to start training at the WWE Performance Center
starting now. So ESPN initially broke the news of that
signing and they said it remains unclear if she will
be heading straight to the main roster or if she'll
start her WWE journey on the WWE Next brand.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
And here's what she had to say.

Speaker 16 (09:27):
Why the move, the leadership and I'm the first signing
under the TKO umbrella. I mean there's so many different things.
Where else can you go to get the best quality training?
Nowhere else? The PC here is one on one. There's
nothing else like it. The machine is behind you, the platform,
just the overall history, the legacy. I'm creating a household names.

(09:49):
I mean I can go on and on. I mean
why not? The question more so is why not?

Speaker 3 (09:54):
What I do love about her? Also is she's an
ak Okay.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Most importantly yeah, ye, but that's just Jacksonville. That was
big for a w DOT to have j Car gill So,
but congratulations her for making whatever move is best for her.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
And John Moran.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
He's been laying low, but he just recently made an
appearance surprising kids at a Memphis basketball court, and he
gave everybody his signature Nike sneakers during a session of basketball.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Here's what happened.

Speaker 11 (10:22):
Believe in yourself, you know, having confidence in yourself and
be a lot of outside stuff that.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Can distract you from the ultimate goal. Just stay locked in,
tune it out and say I also got everybody else
a prayer job.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
One stuff over the air that's exciting for the kids.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
And in the back of the nigger it says, yeah,
we ain't ducking no smoke.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
I feel like you've said that before too.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
That's just that's just different things.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, that could be the title for your first porn.

Speaker 8 (10:47):
I'm not there yet, okay, part two.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Before we got all right, well that is your yet,
And when we come back, we have about last night.
That's where we discussed what we did last night. You
guys know, I did a town hall with Pastor ar Bernard,
But I also was when I went home binging on
Love is Blind.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Finally. Yeah, this is not a real place. It's way
up with Angela Yue.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, night, So about last night. Last night, last night I.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Went down, Yes, it is way up with Angela Yee.
I'm Angela Yee. And Jasmine Brand is here. Good morning Angela,
Good morning jazz Mano is here.

Speaker 7 (11:34):
No may not.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
On the radio, Yes, you are on the radio, all
right now it's about last night now may No.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
I saw you've been posting a lot of these challenges.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
And that's very challenging. Yeah, that is very challenging.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Because there's a lot of people right.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Now, a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
How are you how if you have a team that
you guys are going through all.

Speaker 8 (11:54):
Of them or doing it most of it myself because
it's coming directly to me in real time.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
And this is the for my City challenge.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
In case you're listening, you don't know Maatos song for
my City. He took his verse off the first part
of the song, and you guys get to do your
own for my city, representing the city right.

Speaker 8 (12:13):
And the thing is, everybody from every city. I'm picking
the best in each city. So you got the best
verse in each city, then you're going up on all
platforms as the official remix for that city.

Speaker 6 (12:23):
Oh okay, there gonna be one for Omaha in New
York for New York.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
You know what I'm gonna do for New York.

Speaker 8 (12:30):
I'm gonna break it off into the borough boroughs because
every borough is like a city.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
And even every neighborhood is like a city too, in
every borough. But that's tough.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's a lot.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yes, what about you, Jazz when you came to New York.

Speaker 6 (12:42):
Yeah, I came to New York. I got here late
last night and uh, expect you know.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
What I was doing. I was watching Love Is Blind.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
You were up when I came in, and I was
expecting you to be sleeping.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
You were up watching Love Is Blinding and Detroit.

Speaker 9 (12:54):
No.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
I came from Washington, d C.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
And before I did that, though, I had a town
hall with Pastor a ar Bernard about relationships.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
I've never all you can do?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
You want to do one, I'll set it up, like
he says he wants when I feel like you have
a town hall all the time in Chelsea House.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
But yeah, so we did a town hall up here.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
I heard that is that was streamed live and you
can also still watch it now after the fact. But
people were writing in a lot of relationship questions, and
what was good is that Pastor a ar Bernard and
I definitely have different views about different things, respectfully, but
you know, I think some things we did agree on
like when people were somebody asked, you know, when we

(13:36):
get into me and my my significant other get into
an argument, how do we de escalate it so because
we get so angry, and so just tips on things
like that.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
And he's been married for a long time.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, he's been it'll be fifty one years. Escalate Yeah, yeah,
no matter fact, I'm going to clip that and send
it to you. But there were some great questions that
people were asking, you know, so you guys should check
that whole thing out. And then after that, I went

(14:07):
home and I was cleaning because I came back from
Vegas and I have not had a minute. I've been
working on a stop. So I was like, let me
do some laundry, let me unpack. And then I was
watching Love's Blood and I got very into it. And
this season is very messy, but there was one thing
that I wanted to talk about. And it's okay if
you haven't watched the show yet, it's not a spoiler.
But there was a couple that were in the pods, right,

(14:28):
and if you don't watch Love is Blind, basically you
can't see the other person you're talking to them behind
the wall, So that way. Looks don't matter, ethnicity, all
of those things don't matter. People are just getting to
know each other personality wise and seeing who they like
in that way. And he asked her if she's ever
cheated on anyone. Whosha is his name. He asked if she's.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
Ever cheated and she said, yes, she did.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
She said she cheated on her ex because she wasn't
satisfied in their relationship, and he started tearing her up.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Oh, she said it was two years ago. He was like, oh,
so you're a recent cheater.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
I don't like him.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
It made me really not like him the way that
he was they were having it.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
He was like, well, I cheated when I was eighteen,
but that's because I was like, oh my god.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
That's about don't ask questions that you can't and not
accept the answers to.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
And you went honesty, right, You guys are getting to
know each other. She was crying, and everybody, that's terrible. Yes,
that's a crying. That's a red flag. If someone is
going to tear you apart from you being open and
being honest with.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Them, that means I can't even tell you any.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
You can what's a green fat?

Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't know. It ain't that though, agreed.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Let me tell you something, man know, it made me
think about you because you know we we always talk
about no judgment. Tell us the secret is coming up next,
and he was judging her. I was like, is this
amazing her?

Speaker 3 (15:47):
You are a verb? He wasnoing her?

Speaker 5 (15:49):
Wow, just verb?

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Meuse Mayo and tell us the secret is about to
come up. Y'all know Mano loves this segment. He does,
but he loves calling y'all so what you I.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
Really it hurts.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Segment is no judgment.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
It hurts them.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
And I'm gonna tell you why. He gets fueled up
because y'all be in the comments. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
I stand with Mayn. No Mano or a real one. The
whole segment is no judgment, okay.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
And then they get mad at us for doing what
we're supposed to do, which is not judge fifty tell
us the secret.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
It's way up with Angela ye eight hundred two ninety
two fifty one fifty way.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
This is a judgment free zone. Tell us a secret.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
It's way up at Angelaye. I'm Angela Yee. Jazzmine brand
is here.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
It's not just any brand on my own brand.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
MANO is here, good morning.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
Tell us a secret.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty is the number.
Tell us a secret?

Speaker 9 (16:49):
Now?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
This segment recently, Jasmin, I don't think you were here,
but we had a secret that.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Had MANO very upset.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
On One man got his friend's girlfriend pregnant, had a
child with her, and his friend thinks that it's his baby.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
Oh wow, he's a sucker.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
It's not his fault. Man that he was.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
He told me he was a sucker and the guy
and then the guy was like, actually we're not that
tight yo.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Okay, but we want to hear your secrets.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Eight hundred two ninety two fifty fifty anonymous caller, how
are you?

Speaker 11 (17:20):
I'm well, how are you good?

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Thank you? You want to tell us a secret? Yes, it's
kind of nasty, know, okay, we want to hear it.

Speaker 17 (17:27):
So I was my main boyfriend and he was trying
to say that he don't do oral mm hm.

Speaker 15 (17:33):
So I had sex with another guy and maybehim.

Speaker 8 (17:36):
Oh see that's disgusting. That's not nasty. That's a whole
other level of debauchery right there.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
But say your man, so your man does do oral?

Speaker 5 (17:43):
It's disgusting. Now made him do it though?

Speaker 4 (17:46):
So the other guy didn't use protection?

Speaker 5 (17:48):
No, of course not all right, that's not him doing
that's disgusting. Why would you do that?

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Gosh? Did he could? He tell?

Speaker 17 (17:55):
No?

Speaker 5 (17:55):
You can tell?

Speaker 4 (17:57):
So now how do you move forward?

Speaker 5 (18:01):
Amore?

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Okay? All right, Well you showed him, Thank you, thank
you for calling.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Taught him a lesson?

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Hun Hey what tepon on him? Is? Callor? How are you?
I'm doing good, I'm good, thank you. Jasmine's here, manos here?
Of course?

Speaker 5 (18:20):
What's that? Then?

Speaker 4 (18:20):
You want to tell us a secret?

Speaker 15 (18:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (18:24):
Well I've been married to my wife about five years
and I wanted to say that I left with another
woman before my wedding day.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Okay, before you go all was it the day before
my wedding?

Speaker 13 (18:38):
Before the wedding?

Speaker 8 (18:39):
Yeah, I mean you're supposed to do that. That's like
your bachelor party.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Right, not supposed to the night before.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
You can do whatever you want to do.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
No, you cannot. You're still engaged, you still have a commitment.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
Right, but it's your bachelor party, right, It's like that.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Did you know this woman that you had sex with
before your wedding? How well did you know or were
like she an x or something.

Speaker 13 (18:58):
Or like a coworking.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
Are you still doing it now?

Speaker 17 (19:03):
No?

Speaker 4 (19:04):
No, no, So what what actually happened? Like, how did
this go down?

Speaker 13 (19:09):
Like five years ago?

Speaker 4 (19:11):
How did it happen?

Speaker 9 (19:12):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (19:12):
It was just you know one of things. You know,
you go out, you know, you're getting ready for your wedding.
You know, you just hear it cute touch and everything,
and I don't know it just it was in one
of those things that just happened.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
Did you feel bad?

Speaker 13 (19:25):
Yeah, I feel bad. Like I said, I think it
part of the line. But it's like, you know, I
love my wife too. At the same time, we have
our you know what I'm saying. We just had our
first child.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
Congratulations, don't tell her, do not sell her.

Speaker 8 (19:38):
Leave it alone, forget about it. It didn't happen. Year me,
it didn't happen.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
He's like, no, trust me, No, it didn't listen.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
It did not happen. Leave it like that.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Well, thank you for sharing with.

Speaker 13 (19:51):
Us, no problem, Thank you all for having me.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
All right, what's eponymous?

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Calor?

Speaker 4 (19:55):
How are you? How are you good? Thank you? You
want to tell us a secret?

Speaker 18 (20:00):
Yes, I said I was intimate with someone that my
sister was intimately and I did tell her at the
time because I felt like it would everyone I buy forever.
And basically it turned out he didn't either end up
but either one of us. So it was like, you know.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
What, did your sister mess with him first?

Speaker 15 (20:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (20:20):
And then you went behind it and you went behind
your sister back.

Speaker 18 (20:24):
It was a long it was a long time ago,
a long time ago, like six years ago.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
We're not judging it.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
It's no judgment here.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Can you imagine you would have ruined your relationship with
your assistant for somebody who not the one of y'all
care about.

Speaker 18 (20:38):
Literally, because we both got our own work person on
our own relationships.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
So yeah, and you would have never you would never
do that again, right, no.

Speaker 18 (20:45):
No, no, no, no, no, no, Okay, she.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Learn her listen, so she went behind her sister back.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
All right, Well that no one, Okay? For sharing.

Speaker 13 (20:56):
I love you.

Speaker 18 (20:57):
I listened fet on it every day.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
So I'm glad.

Speaker 18 (20:59):
I'm family chance to calling you know if I took
a petty of your show, and I'm proud that you
were going at your home shows, fast club and everything.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Thank you so much. I appreciate you. You're welcome, good nicest,
stop it all right? Well that was tell us a secret.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Eight hundred two nine fifty fifty is a number in
case you couldn't get through. And when we come back,
let's talk about this Love and Hip Hop Atlanta Colorism
round Table.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
It's way up at Angela yee.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Sure she's about to blow the lead ab off this pot.
Let's get it.

Speaker 11 (21:28):
Oh yeah, Angela's feeling that yee tea, Come and get
the tea.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yes, it is way up at Angela yee. I'm Angela yee.
And Jasmine brand is here. I'm I'm my own brand,
new mano new mana. Right now, let's get into some yet.
So there was a Love and Hip Hop Atlanta a
roundtable discussion on racism and colorism following the season finale.
And this is all because of remarks that Erakammena made

(21:54):
about Spice while she was angry during an episode. And
by the way, they've said that she's not returning for
future seasons.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Where's what was said?

Speaker 19 (22:02):
Yes, sont you love cute blue love?

Speaker 4 (22:08):
All right?

Speaker 2 (22:08):
So Spice told her your son hates you, huh, and
she responded, you monkey, you blue monkey ouch. And so
clearly we all know that calling someone a monkey is
a racist thing to do. Calling a black woman, calling
a black woman a monkey is unacceptable, and we've seen
many instances where any type of reference in any way

(22:30):
you know that gets canceled out right. Yep, And so
Love and hip Hop posted immediately following the season finale,
Love and Hip Hop Atlanta. The conversation continues with Love
and Hip Hop Atlanta, Racism, colorism, and the uncomfortable truth,
and this roundtable discusses the recent events that aired on
the show before MTV decided to stop filming with Ericamena.
Now Rikamnna responded to the announcement of that happening, and

(22:52):
she said, I think it's absolutely fair that I speak,
especially because I was indeed filming NonStop for seven months
after the actual incident happened between me and that other individual.
The network toast to still film with me NonStop, which
is why I was used as the base storyline for
the whole second half of this actual season. They had
this footage for months, they chose to edit it. I
think she meant edit how they wanted and aired it.

(23:15):
It's only now they are desperate trying to save face
and using me to sew if I'm being used to
say it and I'm just feeding you, If I'm being
used to set an example, why was I not a
part of this round table discussion?

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Why are they so desperate to film NonStop?

Speaker 9 (23:27):
Now?

Speaker 2 (23:27):
This is an prime example of not taking accountability for
what you did. And Yandy actually tried to get her
to take accountability. And here's what she said. Happened when
she approached her.

Speaker 20 (23:36):
Was it wrong, yes, But at the same time, Pop
she crossed the line.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
She violated me by coming.

Speaker 21 (23:43):
For my son, and I will do it all over
the gain if she.

Speaker 7 (23:46):
Does it again.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Period. I'm Puerto Rican, a Dominican, I have black in
my family, I have black children, I'm married a black man.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
My sister's the same color as you.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
We came out with safe.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
There's not a racist bone in my body.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
I'm just as black as probably all of it.

Speaker 6 (24:00):
You know, it's always weird when a person tries to
say they're not racist by saying I have black friends.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, some of my best friends are black.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
And then and to be clear, you know, there's this
narrative she was coming from my son. She was talking
about you as a mother, and an appropriate response would
be let me, you know, come back at you as
a mom, not a racist statement.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
She never actually said anything about her son.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
She said your son, that's more of an insult to you.
That's not saying something's wrong with your son. It's just
and clearly she heard that from somewhere, which was said
on the episode too.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
And you know, sometimes things like that can make you
more angry.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
If you feel like because if I said, jas whine,
your daughter hates you, you would be like.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah, I'll be angry. Yeah, well you know what, I
wouldn't care because my daughter doesn't hate me, right, So
it'd be like, okay, that's funny.

Speaker 8 (24:48):
It's no way really around us, even if she thinks
in her mind that she was saying it because she
might feel like she looks like that, it's no way
around us.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
And so she's really trying to say, you know, love
and hip hop, I think we're the goalposts here. It's
not about what the network did. What the network did,
because it might be the network, it doesn't necessarily have
to be love and hip hop. There's a network that
they're on that they answered to, right, And so instead
of saying, you know what, I was wrong because she's
saying she would do it again.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
Well, and so I watched I watched clips on Instagram
and so so and Eman Yandy said you would say
that again.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
She was like, well, no, but I would still go
for her or whatever.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Oh she said she wouldn't say that again.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, she said I would do it again, but keep it. Yeah,
yeah they did, and then she did still continue to film.
We did, and it's the show, not the network, so
the production company, you know. And then there was a
lot of backlash afterward. And when you do get backlash
like that, it's important, I think to say I was
wrong and I take accountability. But she's still not saying
It's like she's mad at Spice for what she said

(25:48):
about Spice.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
You know what I'm saying. And so here's what Spice
had to say about all of this.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
It's not just about me.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
Ericak came for an entire race.

Speaker 19 (25:58):
It's okay to say Spice was wrong for saying whatever
I said, But it's a whole different thing when someone's
response is to be a racist, or someone's response is
to come for black women and dehumanize them.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, and you know that is a hurtful thing. Someone
calls you a, why does.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Your mind go to that?

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Though?

Speaker 3 (26:20):
You know, like, why would you? I don't that's weird.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Okay, Well, you know, I'm sure she's not going to
be done and at some point maybe she'll learn that
you can't go around calling black people monkeys.

Speaker 6 (26:31):
And there's a lot of things you can say. There's
a lot of things you could have said. Yeah, okay
one of them.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
And I think if you watch that particular episode, the
whole issue that they had was that when Spice was
in the hospital almost dying, because she also told Spice,
you should have died. Yeah, and yeah, I means, but
that's not what people are matter racist though.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
That is going low.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
It's not that bad.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
I'm just saying it ain't racist, but it's not racist.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Right, So she told her that.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
But the main thing, it seems that she was jealous
that Safari was concerned about Spice while she was in
the hospital, and she was like, well, when I was
in the hospital, he wasn't.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Like, you can't compare the two things.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
That's what she was, you know, really mad about and
then to tell someone you should have died. But you know,
that's not even what the issue is. It's not about
what did you know? Love and hip hop decide to
do what d VH one do. It's about what you did,
and none of this would be happening if you wouldn't
have said that, right, yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
All right now. Usher is planning to announce a global tour.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
According to reports following his super Bowl performance, Usher has
been having an amazing file.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
This amazing time.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Isn't he tired?

Speaker 4 (27:35):
He has a new album coming out?

Speaker 2 (27:37):
You know, he has super Bowl performance residency, residency that
everyone loves.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
It's always sold out.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
He has an album called Coming Home on the same
day of his performance.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
This is organized.

Speaker 6 (27:48):
Yeah, I just very like it is very smart. I
know he's making a ton of money. I'm like that,
isn't he tired of performing every night?

Speaker 15 (27:55):
You know?

Speaker 2 (27:55):
What's great to be performing in Vegas. I've heard people
say they like the fact of doing a because they
don't have to travel and your family can be The
tour is different. You know, tour is going to be different,
a global tour. But you know what, he's going to
be so ready after this residency and then he's going
to add new songs from his album and his album's
going to go up.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
You love to do what you.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Then they say he has an album coming out after
the super Bowl performance.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Possibly now they said it's going to be the same day,
the same day. Yeah, all right, and.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
That is your yet and when we come back, we
have under the radar. These are the stories that are
not necessarily headline news. They are flying under the radar,
but still very important. It's way up with Angela.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yee.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Got news.

Speaker 11 (28:32):
This in the news that relates to you. These stories
are flying under the radar.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yes, it is way up with Angela. Ye, I'm Angela Yee.
Jasmine brand is here.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yes, I'm here.

Speaker 6 (28:42):
Angela is Jimmy hey, Dwayne.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
All right, now let's get into some under the radar stories.
These are not necessarily headline news, but they should be,
especially this one.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
All right.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
They're talking about nearly fifty school children miss Cleveland in September,
and over one thousand have vanished so far this year,
and caps in Ohio are baffled, how can this happen?
Last year, sixteen hundred kids were reported missing, and please
say the number of runaways and missing kids is unusually high,
and in Georgia and North Carolina, which have similar populations,

(29:19):
and number was less than seven hundred so police are
concerned the youths are being trafficked, are becoming involved in
gain activity.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
That's crazy.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
Remember that's the same place where that dude had those
people there Locktown Girls for years.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
So for some reason, according to police, in twenty twenty three,
we've seen a lot more than we normally see, which
is troubling in part because we don't know what's going
on with some of these kids.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
And I know.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Sometimes the police can treat these kids like they're just
runaways or not care about them, but their trafficking is
still and continues to be a huge issue. As a
matter of fact, I was just talking about this with
Pastor aar Bernard yesterday about the amount of trafficking that
does happen, and he was talking about the trafficking being
really bad in Brooklyn and haven't got even worse during

(30:05):
the pandemic because a lot of places that normally are
very populated weren't because people were inside.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah, this is so hotware it was happening, but it's awful.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Sometimes when you're in the airport, you see the signs
or you hear the speaker loudspeaker announcements about if you
see something or if it looks like someone's being traffic
trafficked in the bathroom and detroite. On the back of
the door, it even says here's the number to call
if you're being trafficked or if you see something, please
call this number. That's how serious of an issue it is.
But that's a lot.

Speaker 6 (30:32):
That's so heartbreaking. First of all, one child is a lot.
These are alarming numbers.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Right, and one woman, Sharis Snowden, her fifteen year old son,
Becausehewan is missing, said, it's been over forty days without
my child.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
I just went him back home. I missed my child
every day. I'm worried. I don't know if he's eating
or sleeping. I just went him back home.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
He hurts.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, because it's a huge money business, but I don't
even understand how humanity wise you could feel like a
you know, y'all going to hell.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
That's what I have to say, all right.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Tender is offering a four hundred and ninety nine dollars
per month invites only subscription plan. There's several unique features
that come if you pay this money. Increase visibility, the
ability to direct message users without matching with them, and more.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
And so it's called Tender Select.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
It sounds expensive.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
I guess the point of it is though, usually when
some of these platforms cost more, that means people are
more serious. You know. Sometimes people will go on Tender
it's free just to master people for random hookups.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
This is a car note.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, it's it's expensive, but FYI, if you're really looking
for love in that way, you'll invest in it if
you have it, and.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Then also if you have money, you might find you
a man with an option.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
I think you should try it.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
Think I should think I should go on Tender and
find me. It's four hundred and ninety nine dollars. I'm
a little cheap, I said, there's I'm a budget.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
There's another app right which charges users up to one
thousand dollars per week. And this is I guess has
been working because it's a smaller it's a smaller number
of subscribers.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, it's you know, and it's a certain tax bracket.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
You should try it for real, But what does that
come with?

Speaker 5 (32:16):
Though?

Speaker 2 (32:17):
I mean, I guess I'm highly engaged in active users.
If you're paying all that money, you're definitely going to
be using it. You're going to be active, and it
does have a certain tax bracket that comes with that
people who are very serious. Yes, also, I guess so
that kind of helps vet people out a little bit more.
And yeah, it's just a smaller pool of people to
choose from.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
Okay, maybe I'm a gone tender for a stack a month,
all right now. This story also made me really mad
and rainier. Washington, one man and his dog are living
out of his van because even though he has a home,
he has a renter there that he cannot get out
of the home who has not been paying rent, who's
also been airbnbing part of the house and making money
while he's not paying rent. And so it's the city

(32:57):
is investigating.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
But Airbnb did say that person was able to airbnb
the property by lying and so forcing certain documents because
you do have to have permission, and I guess he
presented himself as the owner. But the landlord said it's
frustrating and he cannot wrap his head around it that
this person is living there.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
And now I'm living in my van but I can't
even go into my own home.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Now, if it was me, what would you do ange
make a call not.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
To go about this the not legal way. Jermaino right. Well,
that is you're under the radar stories.

Speaker 12 (33:29):
You know.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
We got the way Up mixed to the top of
the hour. Plus we have a special Wealth Wednesday with
April Shower. She is the owner and founder of Afro Unicorn.
You may see some of their products and Walmart and
many of the other huge stores, but she's going to
talk about how she got started and how she was
able to get her product in stores and why it's
important to her.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
It's way up with Angeline.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
It's like the talk like they Angelie Jean, like they
Angelie Jean.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Man, she's spilling it all. This is yet way off.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yes, it is way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee.
Jasmine brand is.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Here, not just any brand on my own brand.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Mano is here, No man Yeah, And let's get into
some yet now. First of all, rest in peace to
nation and breed love. He's an actor who portrayed Lotto
in eight Mile. He's only forty six years old and
according to reports, he died in his sleep, but they
do not have a cause of death. According to his family,
he lived in New Jersey and here is Nashan in

(34:27):
eight Mile as Lotto.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
I'll spit a racial slur. Hoky Suvie.

Speaker 22 (34:31):
It's a hall of flat, but a black dog doesn't
die in this movie. You've gotta be kidding, And that
makes me believe you womans don't have an interest in living.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Who think this?

Speaker 22 (34:41):
Chickens don't feel to say I got a better chance
the KKK.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
I like you.

Speaker 22 (34:47):
That's why I didn't want to have to be the
one you commit suicide too.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Oh well, well, Canno listens to his family.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, absolutely, and he performed under the Monica Acts. In
real life, he previously belonged to a group called The
Now and he also appeared on the soundtrack for The Wash,
starring Snoop Dog, Doctor J DJ Pooh, and George Wallace.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
Okay, yeah, he really was a rapper.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
I've never seen eight Mile, What Angela relaxed?

Speaker 5 (35:14):
That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
You have to watch it. It's a great movie.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
No, everyone loves I've just never seen it before.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
What okay?

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Okay, everybody relax? All right, all right?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
And speaking of Eminem, he just made it onto the
list the top ten most album sold of any artist ever.
He's the only hip hop artist in that top ten list.
Now Number one is the Beatles.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Number two is Michael Jackson. Number three is Elvis, Number
four is Queen, five is Madonnas, six is The Rolling Stone,
seven is Pink Floyd, eight is Frank Sinatra. Number nine
is Elton John At number ten now is eminem most
album sold ever. He actually overtook led Zeppelin, So now
they're at number eleven and he's at number ten. A
shout out to the only black man on this list,

(35:58):
Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. All right, all right, Now, Boozy
is saying that he turned down two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars they offered him to perform at an event
in support of the LGBTQ community.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
Here's what he had to say on the Danza project.

Speaker 21 (36:11):
I've been offered a quarter million to go to perform
at LBGT community thing.

Speaker 15 (36:17):
Man.

Speaker 21 (36:18):
You know, I told him I have nothing against it
at all, but that's not what I push and that's
not what I believe in.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
I'm good, bro.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Boosy.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
I'm going to just say this, I don't know if
I believe him.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 6 (36:33):
May no, would you perform at an LGBTV right there
and we'll be with him.

Speaker 8 (36:38):
Yes, absolutely, I'm performing in front of Martians. It don't
matter what they got going on and got to do
with me. It's come to do a job. I'm coming
to perform on music.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
Yeah, I don't know if I believe the two hundred
fifty thousand. That's a lot of money to turn out.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yes, I actually definitely hosted LGBTQ events during five week
and everything like why not?

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Yeah, all right now?

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Joining Lucas has teased that he and Will Smith have
a joint album on the way you know. He went
on Instagram to share a moment between him and Will Smith,
who celebrated his fifty fifth birthday earlier this week.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
He said, dear hero, I never thought I meet you.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Still tips me out that I grew up idolizing you
to then me making a record about my admiration and
respect for you, to then you asking me to create
a whole album with you.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
Can I say I need to do a deeper dive
when Joiner Lucas because I'm not familiar with him, but.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
I see I see and headlines and stuff.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
We saw the last video that wrote to me starting.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Okay, I gotta see how to watch that.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
I actually hosted Joining Lucas's first album release party.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
He sign seems like a cool DUDEO.

Speaker 8 (37:36):
And he put a lot into his visuals though, like
his videos and his music is really autistic and it's
really creative.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah, yeah, really okay cool?

Speaker 17 (37:46):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Indeed?

Speaker 4 (37:47):
All right? Actually Echo is the one that was representing him.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
I know Echo, yep.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Back then go in La, all right, Cardi b Is
going to be on Hot Ones and yeah, I cannot
wait to see that. I feel like I would do
really great on that show, just because I love spicy.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
So that's gonna be online tomorrow right for everybody who
wants to watch. But another thing that she recently talked
about was that there's a ghost in her mansion in
La that is trying to have sex with her. And
here's what she said on Big Boys Neighborhood.

Speaker 20 (38:16):
I start hearing a like a fly sound. Right then
I start hearing this sound in the whole way. It
sounds like somebody's on a phone. I call my security
guards to come in my house. Tell me how the
sound is gone. There's a ghost or a spirit in
this house. The ghost with me, because when OFFSET is

(38:37):
in this house nothing ever happens. But when I'm alone,
it always want to fool me. Mind you, this house
in la is always some weird vibe when I'm here.
And at this point, I feel like if I go
to sleep, the ghost is gonna.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
She means like, and this was on Live.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yeah, she said this on Live actually, but she first
talked about this ghost on Big Boys Neighborhood. By the way,
that's a movie that country starting called Strange Love that.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
You can watch.

Speaker 6 (39:02):
I think if your sexual, a ghost is gonna want
to do sexual things with you. But a ghost with
me probably would just want to eat with me because
I like to eat.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Okay, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (39:10):
Like a ghost probably with May would want to fight
or something, probably have sex, have sex, and then with
and what what what would a ghost want to do
with Ange?

Speaker 3 (39:19):
I cracked jokes?

Speaker 5 (39:23):
Want to fight with me?

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (39:24):
I don't because you like you're a little violence.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
But anyway, that is your yee te And shout out
to Pastor A. R. Bernard who was here yesterday. You
know he's performed exorcisms before.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
It's a real thing, all right. Uh With ye.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
And when we come back, I want to talk about
Love is Blind. Have you ever regretted telling somebody some
information about you? I'm gonna tell you what happened on
Love is Blind that had furious all right.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
Told you'll talk about it.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Yes, it is way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee.
Jasmine brand is here, yes, Mayno is here? Well may
how you getting because I'm just laughing at how upset
you were, because I said I was upset about this,
and then when you heard it, you gotta do angry.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
I got real, man, this is about Love is Blind.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Now, this show the first I think five episodes are
out now and then they'll have the rest later. But
one of the biggest plot twists, right, this is the
first time this has ever happened, because this is season five.
Ousha and Aaliyah they're dating, they're in the pods, and
from the beginning it was like they really liked each other.
They both weren't talking to anybody else, just to two

(40:35):
of them. It felt like that was it. But on Uh,
there was a little bit of a plot twist. Now
they were trying to be honest with each other. That's
the main thing on Love is Blind. It's all about conversation,
getting to know each other. You don't see what the
other person looks like. You're in these pods. You don't
know anything about their ethnicity, So it has nothing to
do with any of those things. It's just dating somebody

(40:56):
strictly based off a great conversation and attraction, right, but
more like a mental attraction.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
The two of them were doing so well.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Together and then they decided to share things that they've
done in the past that maybe were not so great now.
He asked her if she's ever cheated, and she did
admit that at one point, at one time, she did cheat,
and it made me think he was so judgmental of her,
that have you ever regretted telling somebody something when they
asked you and wish you would have never told them

(41:25):
because they kept on throwting in your face or they
judged you about it. What about you, Mane or have
you up here? We're not dating, all right, but I've
said things up here and I just put it out there.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
We put it on put it on the radio. All right.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Well, let's hear what happened when Aliyah admitted that a
couple of years ago she did cheat in a relationship.

Speaker 23 (41:47):
You've done things.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
Have you ever cheated in.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
A relationship once two years ago?

Speaker 23 (41:52):
Oh boy, you're a recent cheater that relationship.

Speaker 6 (41:56):
I really really tried, and I did everything and even
orally correct ways.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
Why didn't you just break up with him?

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Did you tell him about it?

Speaker 23 (42:04):
No, I cheated in a relationship right when I did cheat,
it was when I was eighteen years old.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
I only kissed somebody else.

Speaker 6 (42:12):
He's very That's why his voice is absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
What he's doing I feel like, is very.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Yeah, you answer her a question. She was honest with
you about something that happened a couple of years. If
I didn't even know you, then pole definitely change.

Speaker 5 (42:26):
Into everybody cheats.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Here's what else had to say to Eliah.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
I didn't want to hurt him, and I knew I
was wrong.

Speaker 23 (42:34):
Do you think it was about not wanting to hurt
him though, or was it more about you?

Speaker 4 (42:38):
I mean, it wasn't about me.

Speaker 23 (42:40):
You don't feel embarrassed or ashamed of what you did.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
I dealt with that guilt for a long long time, and.

Speaker 23 (42:47):
If you actually told him about it, you would have
had to confront that embarrassment and guilt and you would
have felt even worse. So you said, it's not about
hurting him, but really it might have been about your god.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
Dare you try to sit here and Annaly?

Speaker 3 (43:00):
He is so whack. Yo yo yo Oush is his name.
You're whack for this?

Speaker 4 (43:05):
You want to hear the craziest part?

Speaker 2 (43:06):
What this is not a spoiler because this has been
out and there's been articles about it, So when you
guys watch it. How About for the first time ever
in Love is Blind history, there was another woman in
the pods, Lydia, who was comforting Aliyah when she went
back crying after he was so rude to her, saying, oh,
you don't need him, you don't, you know, you deserve
more than that. How About they used to date and

(43:29):
they found out, No, they found out on the first
day when they were in the poe together that they
were both on the show. So they didn't, you know,
end up continuing to talk. But yeah, how crazy is
that he didn't reveal that, So you're a liar.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
I don't let Also, I don't feel like first of
all I had they weren't together.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
It wasn't it's a relationship something she did.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
I'm trying to share something with you that I am
not proud of that I had to deal with. And
by the way, I've heard that if you cheat on
somebody and they don't find out, you should not tell
them because that's only a way to relieve your own guilt.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
And now it makes somebody else feel terrible, So he's whack. Yeah,
don't get caught.

Speaker 6 (44:08):
You don't ask someone a question if you can't, you
can't handle the answer, right, And if you want someone
to be honest with you can't.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
Have you ever been regret somebody some information?

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Definitely, just things I did not need to share.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Get we'll have it again on lip service.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Sometimes people are very comfortable and tell stories and then
people judge them all over social media based up as
something that they did that they tried to be honest about.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
I share something very you took it secretive. Yeah, y'all
had to take it one time. Y'all didn't.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
Well you didn't ask us to know.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
It's not your fault.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Yeah, but you know, all right, Well that's it.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
If y'all want to tell us a secret, you can
always hit us up and we'll play it at the
end of the show. But it is a wealth Wednesday.
We have April Showers joining us.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
All right.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
She is the CEO and founder of Afro Unicorn, and
you're gonna love her story of how she managed to
get into all of these big ticket stores like a Walmart.
Imagine how difficult that is. But she is in there
and she's thriving. We got to make sure we support.
It's way up at Angela yee.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Yeah, she's back at it in the way up with
Angela is on.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
Yes, it's way up at Angela.

Speaker 7 (45:20):
Ye.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
I'm Angela yee. Jasmine brand is here, yes, Mano is here.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yeah, And I have to be completely honest, right, Jasmine
and I are getting ready to interview Tony Tony Tony.
I am so excited for this and we are having
a whole concert in here.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
My name is Jim Maine.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
What is your favorite Tony song?

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Jazz Mo, lay your head on myllo.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
I just told you all a little secret about that song.
Just relax, relax, relxus.

Speaker 17 (45:52):
Man.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Who would I be in the group, not the main singer.
My favorite Tony Tony Tony song is just Me and you?

Speaker 3 (45:59):
How's that go? Just me and you?

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Oh bab my god friend. Boys in the hood, ye
that and boys in the hood. Yeah, yeah, right, let
me think.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
My favorite ones I was, I was playing it, what
is it?

Speaker 4 (46:14):
Let me see if that was really that's.

Speaker 17 (46:16):
The one when he said, show shows my name is Jimmy,
this is your note you should be here.

Speaker 8 (46:30):
Okay, the game on you just shows my name is Jeremy.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
I'll think I think.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
They Okay, let me let me this moment, all right,
But then ask of You that was some higher learning
and we will never forget Dage's name because of the
song ask of You.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
I love you day.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Ski me all your loving.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
They got some they do.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Yeah, I'm so excited. This is their first time going
on tour in twenty five years. Big deal, right, that's
how long.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
I can't even believe that was twenty five years ago.

Speaker 5 (47:02):
They haven't been on so since then.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
They've been touring separately.

Speaker 17 (47:07):
Before they got their steps together and they the steps out.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
So make sure y'all listen for when this interview. But
I'm really really excited for this one. Yeah, all right,
So that's just a little spoiler of what's happening up
here behind the scenes. There's all kinds of people in
the hallways up here always because all the radio stations
are up here and all the different shows.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
It's an active building.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
So when I come in, usually whoever's on the Breakfast
Club they're you know, in the hallway or stop yeah
Z one which is another station Elvis Duran, they're up
here and there's a lot of activity always in this building.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
So yes, excited for that.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Just that I will share that with you because these
Tony Tony Tony's tour just started, so.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
I might get a new bag today that has talking
about like what I like that for you.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
I'm excited about you know what.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Any excuse and you know what, let's get me into
a cake I don't want.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
Okay, all right, well listen you guys.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
When we come back, it is a Wealth Wednesday in
April shower which is going to be joining us. He
is the CEO and founder of Afro Unicorn. You're gonna
love her whole story because she is in all the
big ticket retailers and that's not an easy thing to accomplish.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
She'll tell us how she did. It's way up with Angela. Ye,
I had a dream.

Speaker 8 (48:12):
Of wealthy, and I don't mind sharing my wealth dogs.

Speaker 11 (48:15):
Getting you straight financially, mentally and physically. This is Wealth
Wednesday on Way Up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
What Up's Way up with Angela Yee? Angela Yee.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
And you know, one of my favorite things to do
is talk to entrepreneurs and then on top of that
a woman entrepreneur, and then on top of that a
black woman entrepreneur. We have April Showers here with USA,
the founder and CEO of Afro Unicorn.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
Thank you Angela for having me. I'm so excited to
be here.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
And if you're watching, you can see my little cute
Afro Unicorn sitting on top of the mic. You can
see you're always fairst Afro Unicorn apparel and also the books. Okay,
so I want to talk about before we even get
into how you've become this multi hyphen it with a
brand that is in all large departments store including Walmart,
by the way, which was that was that the first call?

Speaker 4 (49:03):
That was the first call.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
That was the first call was Walmart, which is a
huge first call. But before we do that, I want
to talk about the power of manifestation because you knew
from a young age that.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
This was what you wanted to do.

Speaker 14 (49:14):
Well, from a young age, I knew I was going
to be a boss I never even played with unicorns,
knew about a unicorn, none of that. A friend kept
referring to me as a unicorn because I have multiple
businesses and I am a single mother of two amazing
young black boys, and he kept calling me a unicorn.
I put a lot of thought into once I got
that idea of Afro Unicorn, because there was no unicorn

(49:36):
that looked like me. I kept using that emoji in
our phone, and one day I was like, why is
it only white? Like who determined that unicorns are only
supposed to be white?

Speaker 4 (49:43):
They don't even exist?

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Well they do, but you know, I don't want to
ruin anyone's dreams.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Yes they do, Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 14 (49:50):
So then so then I couldn't find one. So instead
of complaining about it, I wanted to be the change
that I want to see. And that is why I
created Afro Unicorn.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
And when we talk about now the details that get
you to that end result, right, knowing that you were
studying this Afro Unicorn brand, what were the steps that
you took that even had Walmart knocking on your door?

Speaker 14 (50:07):
So the very first step is always trademark you guys,
if you have an idea, if you have a thought,
you got to get it copywritten, trademark, patent, whatever that
might be. I've built the brand to sell the brand.
I knew it was going to be as big. I
saw the end of it being big, but I thought
would have to sell it to somebody to get it there. Okay,

(50:28):
Walmart introduced me to the world of licensing, and that's
how I'm able to have five hundred different skews and
over twenty thousand doors nationwide and I don't have a
warehouse for fulfillment.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Right now, I'm talking to April Showers, the founder and
CEO of AFRO Unicorn. All right, now, talk to us
about the difference between because some people do and a
lot of people who you know have successfully created different brands,
have started a brand in order to sell it, like
you said, but what is the difference now for people
who are listening between selling your brand but just licensing it, Like,

(51:01):
how does that work?

Speaker 4 (51:02):
Okay?

Speaker 14 (51:02):
So for one, for me, I still own one hundred
percent out for uniforms, which is huge, and it's all
about information that we do not have. So basically, every
business that you build, you should be building it to
sell because there's just certain aspects of the business. If
you're building it to sell it, that will attract other

(51:24):
opportunities to you.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Even I said, you want to have a strong valuation,
So the way that you're building your business so that
somebody would want to buy it because it's so valuable
and brings in money. So you're building it in a
way that even if you didn't sell it, which you
didn't have to, it still has a great attraction and value.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
Right exactly. And make sure you have an accountant.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
That is so important because let me tell you a
lot of businesses end up not working out because of
you know, the management of the funds. We've said it
having time and time again, and then once that starts snowballing,
it's hard to get out.

Speaker 4 (51:59):
Of it, exactly.

Speaker 14 (52:00):
So that's what I mean by building it to sell
those principles. It's not always just I'm building this dope brand, No,
But what's the backside, like massage your money and orders
your credit and or are you paying the employees above
the table like you're supposed to be So if you're
trying to franchise the business or like you said, sell it,
are the book straight.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
Right, because if not, there's no conversation.

Speaker 14 (52:22):
To be had, right, Okay, I get that, so we
could talk about licensing if.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
You yeah, Now, let's talk about licensing.

Speaker 14 (52:29):
Understand, I'm the first black woman to have a license
brand character in major retail and what that means is
that my direct competitors are like Disney, Marvel, and Nick.
When you go into these stores, you will see Afro
Unicorn next to all of the Disney characters, all of
the Marvel characters.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
That is the.

Speaker 14 (52:47):
Position that I hope. The licensing world is a very
small knit community. I spend a lot of time in
New York because most of them are here. But it's
very small and if you don't know someone in licensing,
you probably won't ever discover licensing. So I'm tasked now
that I'm in it, to be able to learn it,

(53:09):
to go find others and pull them because there's a
better way to do it. There's a way where you
don't have to lose all this capital.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
How did it work for you? It's working great? I mean,
how did you get How did I get into it?

Speaker 5 (53:21):
Right?

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Walmart?

Speaker 14 (53:23):
So Walmart called me will They emailed me and asked
me would I consider doing like party supplies with them?
And then they introduced me to my first two licensees.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Now what had you been doing prior to that that
Walmart wanted to do that with you?

Speaker 14 (53:39):
So just building my brand, my e commerce brand, Shopify
on Instagram.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Shopfy coffee, up list people. We got to pop up
shopping there too.

Speaker 14 (53:48):
Okay, I love Shopify, but it's very important when you
build a brand that you build a community with that brand.
So Afric Unicorn, because I was being referred to as
a Unicorn for bands to entrepreneur, I still not launched
this brand. I'm going to highlight other entrepreneurs. Okay, so
from day one, anybody will rock my shirt, I would

(54:08):
post them and saying, hey, check out Angelae rocking her
Afro Unicorn shirt.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
But be sure you stopped by and.

Speaker 14 (54:15):
Support cup Coffee, uplifts people and follow her and patronize
her business because this is what makes her unique, divine
and magical. So people saw that, they were like, oh,
if I just rock a shirt, she's gonna talk about
me and my business.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
And I did.

Speaker 14 (54:30):
So we got the likes of very On, Tiffany Hattish,
Alicia Keys, Sherry Shepherd, all of them saw what we
were building and they just gravitated to it and jumped
up on it. So with their audience, it just started
spreading like wildflowers. And I would just support businesses every Saturday.

Speaker 5 (54:45):
I still do so.

Speaker 14 (54:47):
One little girl, Cassie Brianna, she's a Brooklyn native. She
was wearing African Quarantine taking her photos and somebody walked
by her and said, I love your hair with all
the confidence in the world. She said, thank you, it's
an AFRO And that video went via from Viola Deva's
sharing it, you know, no sharing it, and then Oprah
shared it and that's when Walmart saw it.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
Wow, all right.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
April Showers is here with us for a Wealth Wednesday.
She is the founder and CEO of Afro Unicorn and
she has some great business advice for you if you're
trying to get your product in stores. It's Way Up
with Angela Yee more when we come back.

Speaker 8 (55:19):
I kind a dream of wealthy and I don't mind
sharing my wealth dog.

Speaker 11 (55:23):
Getting you straight financially, mentally and physically. This is Wealth
Wednesday on Way Up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
What's up as Way Up with Angela Yee and April Showers,
the founder and CEO of Afro unicorn is here. Now,
let me ask you this, being that you were building
your brand with the intention of selling it, did you
feel like that would create some backlash because I feel
like a lot of times in our community, people grow
in an affinity towards a brand, and then if that
brand tells and we've seen it happen on several occasions,

(55:51):
then there's the oh, you know, how dare you sell
a company? Because I think people also don't understand the
value and if you did decide to do that, you know,
sometimes people can look at you like you backstabbed them
after I've been supporting you all the time, and now
you went and sold your company.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
I see both sides of it.

Speaker 14 (56:08):
Look, I said from day one, I'm building an African
corner stuff, right, But the Lord saw another way and
now I'm so into this. I will not be removed
from this brand.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
Isn't that crazy? It's like your baby now.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
But in the beginning you were trying to make sure
that you're holding legacy.

Speaker 14 (56:25):
Yeah, that was it, but now it's like, I want
a real brand of representation. So it also depends on
the type of product. So to me, it makes zero
sense that someone that is not Black would be behind
Afro Unicorn, right. But when it comes to like hair
products and body products and coffee and anything that's a commodity,

(56:50):
if y'all could build it to sell it, and it
can take you to another level where you can build
more and invest more and that's more and help more people,
employ more people in your community.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
I'm all for it.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
And I want to talk about how you expanded the brand.
So when you went into Walware, what did you have first?

Speaker 4 (57:08):
So we launched in May twenty twenty two in one.

Speaker 14 (57:11):
Category which was party supply, okay, followed by apparel. Now
we're in nineteen different categories at Walmart.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
We can't go down to Island Walmare without seeing your parent.

Speaker 5 (57:21):
I can go to.

Speaker 14 (57:21):
Fruit snacks right now, go to the fruit sack and
right here your fruit snacks. But everything from bandages to
a new haircare line which is dropped magical trusses.

Speaker 4 (57:32):
I'll put you some edge control in there. Okay, thank you.
You trying to tell me something.

Speaker 14 (57:37):
I'm gonna give you the Cirl friend.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
That was a lot to pack, but I'll get you
some now. I appreciate it, like you know, I'm going
to support it. So you don't have to. I definitely
like to make sure that even when people are you know,
we get gifted a lot of things here, but I
do like to buy and support too as you do.
So I want to get to that because National Coffee
Day is coming up and we are partnering up that.

Speaker 5 (58:00):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
I'm very excited.

Speaker 14 (58:02):
My heart is to help enough people get to where
they want to be and in return, I will get
to where I need to be.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
And my life is evident of that.

Speaker 14 (58:10):
Every opportunity that I have every door, I always say
that I've never been qualified for, but I think it's
because of all the seeds that I've planted into other
people and other businesses that has blessed the Afro Unicorn business.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
So, yep, we are partnering with.

Speaker 14 (58:25):
Black owned, female owned coffee shops around the nation where
we are crafting Afro Unicorn coffees for National Coffee Day,
where we're giving it out fr.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
Ee, yes, that's right.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
We're going to be giving away free Afro Unicorn coffees
at Coffee Uplifts people and that's happening on Friday from
eight to ten, right is that?

Speaker 9 (58:47):
Right?

Speaker 4 (58:47):
From a to ten? Well, first fifty people, so relax.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
If you get there and it's nine forty, but even
fifty one, you may not make the cuts.

Speaker 4 (58:55):
And one per person, right, one one per.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Person you just time.

Speaker 14 (59:00):
I know how I might be feeling a little special
when I pull up on Friday, so we may extend it.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
I'm actually gonna extend.

Speaker 14 (59:08):
We're gonna do that, going to one hundred, We're gonna
do one hundred.

Speaker 4 (59:12):
We're gonna do one hundred.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
No, that's so acting, and I really appreciate it because
you actually came to me with this idea to partner.

Speaker 4 (59:18):
So you are about what you say you are.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
So I appreciate you so much for that, and for
my Afro Unicorn gifts and for everybody out there, you know,
for for your kids, for yourself. Afro Unicorn is just
an amazing It's an amazing brand what you've been able
to do and create and it hasn't even been that long.

Speaker 4 (59:35):
April Showers. How can people find you if they want
to contact you or see what else you have going on?

Speaker 14 (59:40):
So directly on Instagram it's got April Showers like got
milk glt April Showers after Unicorn Underscore Official and please
y'all support it and Target, Walmart, all the major stores.
I'm competing against the big dogs that have billion dollar
marketing budgets and movies and TV shows.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Which is probably I feel like that's the next natural
thing that's happening. We are definitely working on in the
meantime and in between time.

Speaker 14 (01:00:08):
I'm the first, but I don't want to be the
only one by I needs y'all help to go out
there and buy the stuff so that we can bring
other brands on the shows.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
I can attest to that because you know, for me,
even having my coffee and Target now, it's not easy
to get in, but what's really not easy is to
stay in. So once you get there, you have to
sell for the people at Target to see the value
that you have and to restock it.

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And once you are not in there anymore, it's hard
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Target to tell them where they can find your coffee.

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And right now we're in stores in DC and Philly,
in New Jersey and in New York. Okay, thank you
so much, April Showers for coming through and when we
come back, we have asked ye. Jasmine Brand is here
and the award winning advice giver Mayah is in the building.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
Its way up with Angela Ye, everybody since whether.

Speaker 11 (01:01:04):
It's relationship with Korea advice, Angela's dropping.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Facts, sho, you should know.

Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
What's epics? Way up with Angela Yee? I'm Angela Yee.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
And the award winning advice giver Maino is here as
well as Jasmine Brand.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
Hey, what's going on here?

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
And we have Crystal on the line for asking Hey Crystal, Hi,
how are you you? I'm good? How are you?

Speaker 15 (01:01:27):
I'm good?

Speaker 10 (01:01:28):
I have a question about my relationship.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
Okay, let's hear it.

Speaker 10 (01:01:31):
So I've been with this guy for about six months
and I really don't get along with his mom. She
doesn't know it, but we don't get along.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
Oh, she probably knows.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
So what does she do?

Speaker 10 (01:01:43):
She's weird, Like she makes comments about me going to school.

Speaker 18 (01:01:47):
She'll say that I'm never.

Speaker 10 (01:01:47):
Going to get a job in my field. Call me
a monkey.

Speaker 4 (01:01:51):
He said, Well, did you not watch his Love and
Hip Hop special?

Speaker 5 (01:01:55):
Okay, that's crazy, he says.

Speaker 10 (01:01:59):
Everything is just please full and innocent. But I'm the
darkest person they know, so it's just the offenses.

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
Okay, are you what's your ethnicity Dominican? Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Oh, Dominicans do have a lot of colorism issues. Yeah,
and they be brown, but there's like lighter skinned ones.
And then because trust me, you go to.

Speaker 10 (01:02:21):
You know, I also have like big curly hair and
I'm more like towards the Afro Latina side. And his
family their lighter skin and they're Puerto Ricans.

Speaker 4 (01:02:33):
Oh that's tough.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Well, listen, first of all, I think that when somebody's
mom and it's their family member doesn't get along with you,
he really does need to be the mediator in the
situation like that, because he needs to sit her down
and let her know when you're not present, and then
bring you into the conversation and be like I would
like for us to all sit down. He's got to
take it seriously because if it's something that bothers you
and he's not taking it seriously, it's only going to

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get worse.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
And I'm sure he's never this is not the first
time he heard this about his mom.

Speaker 5 (01:02:59):
How does he How does he treat you?

Speaker 10 (01:03:02):
He's great, just the people around him aren't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Yeah, and that's you know, and at some point like
and it sucks, but you know, if it gets that bad,
you might not be able to have to go to
family functions. And he has to explain to them, you're
gonna make us not be as close as we should
be because of how you treat my lady. And also
this is twenty twenty three, like y'all got to get
out of this old school mindset and stop being racist

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and colorists.

Speaker 10 (01:03:29):
I agree, But now could I deal with somebody if
I'm not going to their family functions? Like now, we're
not a family.

Speaker 4 (01:03:34):
Listen, I feel you. But if y'all love each other,
you can't never let it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Yeah, you can.

Speaker 5 (01:03:39):
I don't like going to family functions.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
We believe it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
I don't want to. I don't want to go to you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
By the way, my mom loves me, know, but it's
not We love your mom, but it's unfortunate.

Speaker 4 (01:03:49):
You know that it has to be that way.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
But I also want to stress that you do not
want to let outside factors affect your relationship. Your relationship
is you and him. If you and the family get along,
even better. But if y'all don't it can cause a
strain and it is difficult during the holidays, but you
guys have to make a decision that you stand together
as a team. He can do whatever he can, but
you can't hold him responsible for how his family is.

(01:04:11):
You know, look, I got some embarrassing people in my family,
like my dad. I don't bring him around.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
Cool, he's like he's like lit.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
But you know your mom needs to respect your relationship.
But again, do not let them ruin it.

Speaker 18 (01:04:27):
Well that's all that's hopeful.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 8 (01:04:29):
Well, just get your new mother in law, just that
simple throw the whole relationship.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Okay, all right, good luck.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Okay, we wish you the most luck though, thank you,
take care, God bless Jesus loved you.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Well that was ask ye And in case you couldn't
get through or you have a question, eight hundred two
nine fifty one fifty is a number.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
And when we come back, of course, you guys have
the last word. It's way up at Angela yee.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Take up the phone to get your voice heard with
the word bitch. He's the last word on way up with.

Speaker 4 (01:04:59):
Angel what's up this way up with Angela?

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
Yee?

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
I'm Angela yee, Jasmine brand is here.

Speaker 3 (01:05:04):
Yes, I'm here.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
Mano is here.

Speaker 5 (01:05:06):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
Mano likes to say the gang.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Is all here, but I have to remind him we
are not part of a gang unless it's like they
get along gang, or the or the care Beers where.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
They get along the care Beers gang. Especially you. You're
very soft, soft on the inside.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
Yes, since they say these softer sided Mayo's living his
soft life soft life era. All right, well, listen you guys.
I want to thank April Showers for coming through. It
is a wealth Wednesday. So we talked about Afro Unicorn.
She's the CEO and founder of Afro Unicorn and by
the way, a National Coffee Day. They will be at
my coffee shop coffee uplifts people on Friday and she's

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buying free coffee. And she definitely supports a lot of
small black owned businesses, So we appreciate that nice.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
I know you like to do that too, Jess, I
do like.

Speaker 15 (01:05:51):
To do that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
She bought me a sweater yep.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Probably she was like I was.

Speaker 4 (01:05:55):
Buying these black owned business She left it on the
chair in the laid out later here. I was like,
this is for you, friend, and man can people still
participate in that?

Speaker 8 (01:06:05):
Absolutely? Were just getting started. Were only four days in
get the open verse off of YouTube. Man O for
my city, jump on, do whatever you do, kill it,
post it, shoot a video, do whatever you do at me?
Hashtag for my city challenge. It's lit the winner and
every city goes up on all platforms. Let's get it
run up.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
You got to I think I got to. Omaha, I
think I got to.

Speaker 5 (01:06:28):
Yeah, Omaha.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
Man, I'm gonna get somebody to write.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Somebody gotta write my verse though.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
I let me get electronica.

Speaker 5 (01:06:32):
Yeah, perpendicular to the square.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
All right, Well you guys, as usual, you always have
the last word.

Speaker 4 (01:06:42):
All right, eight hundred nine fifty fifty.

Speaker 12 (01:06:45):
You know, one day I win a thousand dollars and
I see somebody we need to eat. You know, I
need to use myself too, because this person need to
just more than I did. I give you the war,
and I did nothing my wife about this. Then all
night she came off. But I know that in my
heart they did a ready ready who did?

Speaker 8 (01:07:05):
So?

Speaker 12 (01:07:05):
I just wanted to share that she did it with
the web, that I am a good person and that
everybody else can hopefully one day dudle shave. Thank you.
I'm a blood day.

Speaker 15 (01:07:16):
Hey, I'm gonna shine a light on my mama. Today
is also her birthday. She's six years old today. Nobody
in my life has ever been more solid and more
there for me than she has. I live at comorm
life now, but you know, for the first thirty years
my life, I was in and out of trouble, in
then out of prison. Just been a decade, been out

(01:07:36):
about a year, and she's just She's always been there
and always held me down. And I never found that
kind of love and trust in another human being. So
happy birthday, Mommy, I love you.

Speaker 12 (01:07:48):
I just got a job and I smith my general
minders to the first day I was praid at that team.

Speaker 9 (01:07:54):
I just wanted to shine a light on my mother,
my beautiful queen. She has done so much, has gone
through so much, yet always has been the anchor to
the family. I see her face in every woman that
works hard and loves her children and does everything she
can to make a day better and brighter for everyone
in life, not just her children and her family and friends.
You know, shine a light on not only my mother,

(01:08:15):
but every mother and you too, Angela Yee. Such inspiring woman,
you know, doing so many great things for so many
women and inspire man like me too. Just seeing everything
you go through no matter what you did, you know
you're always you know, just making your you know, making
sure everybody's smiling and everybody keeping their head up and
staying positive, you know. A big shout out to Shine
out to Angela Yee too, Love you, mommy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Going way out with Angela Yee