Going Way Up With Fab 5 Freddy + Celebrating 50 Years Of HipHop

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Yes, it's way up. But Angela Yee, I'm Angela Yee
Mano is here and we have a special guest host,
comedian actor host finess O, author Vaness Mitchell is here.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm in the building. I'm here.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yes, he's here.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
You.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
We're lucky to have you because you're going to actually
be in Nayak.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yes, I would be in West Nayak tonight tomorrow. The
comedy club is called Levity Live. It's in the Big Mall.
I think that's the only thing there in that city
to do.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Everybody goes to Levity. Every comedian who was here last
I'm then maybe Ida, Yeah, she was there, all right.
It's also the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop. Happy birthday
hip Hop Terrence fifty. We shouldn't even be at work.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
No, it's holiday, national should be an international holiday.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
But we are going to have a good time. Fab
five Freddy actually is going to be joining us later
alongside doctor Brandy mcnail. She works with the New York
Public Library and you know Fab five. Freddie was the
first ever host of Yo MTV Raps. He did the
movie Wild Style, which is a classic hip hop movie.
It might have been the first hip hop movie, right,

(01:10):
I think so. Yeah, so that's a special day. May No,
you wouldn't even be here for hip hop.

Speaker 6 (01:17):
Yeah, that's a scary thought for who, for us, for
what I could be doing.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
It saved a lot of lives, saved, saved a lot
of lives, saved my life.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I wonder when stand up comedy was born, A very.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Very very long time ago, when they came out with
the Ten Commandments and they said.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
You want us to not do what? And I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Let me see, I'm I'm gonna do a deep dive.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
In Lenny Bruson back back in the day. I don't know,
as old as I go, probably Flip Wilson. It's my
first recollection.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Of black in the eighties.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Eighteen forty menstrel shows what history. Yeah, that's when black
people use black face.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
You had to have you had to have a sense
of hum one o man, eighteen hundreds.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
I don't think they had no choice but to make
people laugh, laugh, make us laugh, or get out there
in that field.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
It has to be the worst thing you could say
to a comedian, make us make it.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Say something funny. That's the one thing I hate. Say
something funny, say something people people do that still to
this day.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
That's that can that can lead into a fight.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Look looks like you, U.

Speaker 6 (02:28):
Joe.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
All right, well, let's start the show off the way
we always do on the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop,
Shine a light on them. Eight hundred two nineteen fifty
one fifty it's a number. Call us up and let
us know who you want to shine a light on
it, and we have a world premiere for you guys. It
is DJ Khaled featuring Little Baby Future and Little Uzi
Vert supposed to be loved. It's way up with Angela. Ye,
were gonna up.

Speaker 7 (02:51):
Turn your lights on, y'all spreading love to those who
are doing greatness.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Shut it's time to shine a light on.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yes, it is way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela
Yee and Maina is here, you.

Speaker 6 (03:07):
Know, man, Yeah, my drop is unstoppable and.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
My friend Vanessa Mitchell is here too.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
You always hold me down. Thank you, Yes, thank you
for the invite.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I'm so glad to see you. And we're gonna shine
a light on him as you're our special guest today
because Maino's always here, He's like part of this So
sorry Mane Uh, Vanessa, would you like to shine a
light on?

Speaker 4 (03:25):
I'm gonna shine a light onto my baby. Mom's with
the barge.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, the wife. Well, I'm in New York.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
I was trying to you know, I wanted to feel Yeah,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
I was trying. You know, I've been watching Power and
you know all that stuff. Uh.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Anyway, Yeah, a great woman, two kids. She does everything
I don't do.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
And so he was telling us a great story about her.
Maybe he'll tell it later, but how she really really
holds him down. Yes, he was definitely talking about you
and saying how phenomenal you are and how you saved
his life.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yes, she did, and I didn't know, because that's how
got work.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
All right. Well, who do you guys want to shine
a light on? Eight hundred and two nine fifty one
fifty is a number? Joshua, how are you?

Speaker 8 (04:08):
I'm good?

Speaker 9 (04:08):
Angela? How are you, Felim this morning?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I'm good? Thank you? Who would you like to shine
a light on?

Speaker 9 (04:13):
I want to shine a light on my girl ash
between her twenty seventh birthday.

Speaker 8 (04:17):
She's twenty seventy and final like a glass of wine.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Oh what you gonna do for her?

Speaker 6 (04:21):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (04:21):
We got a lot planning.

Speaker 8 (04:22):
We got a trip going down the floor to coming
up soon.

Speaker 11 (04:24):
So you know I'm surprise you with a couple of
things out there.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Oh it is so sweet. Okay, I love it.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
All right.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, happy birthday, Ashley.

Speaker 12 (04:33):
All right.

Speaker 9 (04:34):
I appreciate Andrew.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
No problem, thank you?

Speaker 13 (04:36):
All right?

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Hey, Gabby, how are you?

Speaker 11 (04:39):
Hi? Angela?

Speaker 12 (04:41):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
What's good girl?

Speaker 5 (04:43):
How are you doing?

Speaker 6 (04:44):
I'm good.

Speaker 11 (04:45):
I actually that's you.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Like a few months ago at a uh, I know
Cassy was there.

Speaker 10 (04:51):
It was like a like a face okay.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
For that was he butter skincare got a.

Speaker 8 (04:56):
Better stink here. Yeah, And I was talking to you
when you was dropping down.

Speaker 11 (05:00):
I was really like grateful to the experience. Well, yeah,
I just want to give a shout.

Speaker 10 (05:06):
Out to you on the fact that you you know, you.

Speaker 11 (05:08):
Branched off and cubs bigger and bad days. And I
want to give a shout out to my to my family.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
All right, are you so dope? Well, thank you so much.
I'm glad I had a chance to speak to you
in person, and thank you so much for listening to
way you put Angela yee and calling in.

Speaker 11 (05:22):
Thank you so much. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
All right, make sure you come to Angela Yee day,
August twenty seventh, all the time.

Speaker 11 (05:28):
Time.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's a free event outside the Barclays. Okay, no problem,
all right, thank you, thank you, all right, all right,
Well that was shine a light out him. Eight hundred
two ninety two fifty one fifty is the number. In
case you couldn't get through. You can always call for
last word. And when we come back, we have yet.
Tory Lanez, he is breaking his silence and speaking out,
will tell you about the statement after being sentenced to

(05:51):
ten years in the Megan the Stallion shooting case. It's
the way you put Angela Yee just like.

Speaker 11 (05:56):
To talk like they Angela Ge, like they Angela.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Gee, and she's spilling it all.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
This is yet way up, Yes, it is way up
for Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee. Mano is here, Yeah,
Mitchell is here.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Faness, Mitchell's in the building. Comedian extraordinary.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Now finas, I gotta ask you the word finesse, right, yes,
so many.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
People take it now. I just can't nothing about.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
It right because that's really your name.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, oh yes, your boy name it is now I'm
saying it is. Don't google me off it isn't.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
But I feel like, did it always mean like to
finesse somebody? Was that always like, even from when you
first started in comedy? Was it always used how it
was used now?

Speaker 4 (06:38):
When I went to the University of Miami, it was
sort of like that that drum Line movie when I
approached the head aka and I was trying to holler
and it wasn't going nowhere because I.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Was she knew I was lying.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
I was like, y'all, y'all, ladies need a tour, and
she was like, yeah, right, what's that building. I was like,
that's the library, cess cafeteria. Shut up, you're a freshman.
But then somebody else walked up and said, who's this
and she said this mister finess.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, that's how it happened.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
And then when I was playing ball and you know Miami,
we was whooping.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
We was He's trying to figure out how to say it's.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
A list of words. You can't say list of words.
But we was dope in the nineties. Win the championship.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
And then I'm in the locker room and it's Texas,
Florida boys. I'm from Atlanta, and somebody said, yo, Budd
what's your name? And I want about to say Alfred,
I said, for mess I said what a question mark? I
said Finesse and I was like, oh that's moved.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Why I like that? And then once they started saying.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
It, okay, well Finesse is here, Fanesse is here? Transition
into comedy, was it all right? Well, let's talk about
Tory Lanez and the uteam now he is put out
a statement to the Umbrellas after he was sentenced in
the Megan the Stallion shooting the Umbrellas for you guys
that may not know are his fans. He said, I've
never let a hard time intimidate me. I will never

(07:51):
let no jail time eliminate me, regardless if they try
to spend my words. I've always maintained my innocence and
I always will. This week in court, I took responsibility
for all verbal and intimate moments that I shared with
the parties involved. That's it. In no way, shape or
form was I apologizing for the charges I'm being wrongfully
convicted of. So he just wanted to put that out
there because some people felt like he was saying, oh

(08:13):
he did it and apologizing, but no, he was just
saying I shouldn't have done the things that I did
after all, right, I.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Just walked.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Walked in here like a ghost anniversary or hip hop We.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Definitely relative just pulled up.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
I like, and t I here and two people who
are in the same field. He's in r in here
to a comedian and a hip hop artist.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
I was running the laugh Factory for a little while
and Tiya was out there and he was doing this
West Coast run and he he was like, yo, can
I get some stage time or whatever? And you know,
as as new comedians, you're like, yeah, you can go
up first. And he was like, yeah, I don't think
that's a good idea. And I was like, oh oh wow.
I said, yeah, just do ten minutes, because we got

(09:01):
booked comedians. They're gonna do the show. He was like, yeah,
I should go last. And I was like, why are
you gonna go last? He was like, I'm probably gonna
do about thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
In my head, I'm like, does he know how this
is supposed to go? But at the end, I was
just like, hey, man, do thirty minutes.

Speaker 14 (09:15):
You're going but check this that though, so so the
thing well, so I knew you know the first the
first joke, you know, how to how to get started
is usually like a tough thing for people to learn.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
But for me, my dismount, I ain't know how to
get off.

Speaker 9 (09:30):
You know what I'm saying, you know?

Speaker 14 (09:32):
And and I would and a lot of my my
caminding style is telling stories and so it gets, it
gets a little, it gets a little lifty.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Yeah, I'm a loquacious right, it's not a stop. Ah,
my God, is not a stop. No, I ain't had
no breaks.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, but I heard it's going well, you're selling out
on the road.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, how are you going to do? Like a whole special?
Are you ready for hour?

Speaker 14 (09:54):
I'm working on Yeah, I'm working on it. I'm working
on it right now. I'm working on it right now.
But we will being in Philly with me in Philly,
I think the seventeen eighteen nineteen Man at the Helium.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Okay, Yeah, I wouldn't want you to come out there
to night with me a levety line, but I know
I won't be on my own show if you come
out there.

Speaker 14 (10:12):
I actually got to go to Vegas tonight, man, But
I would take you up on that.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
You know, I'm hit you we'll do something.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
Absolutely love to man. I don't want to interrupt y'all.
No blood, it's all good, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Try to tell me man used to be a menace
and I said that I.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Ain't Google made and all this please stop it stopping.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
You have no ideativity? People know how close me?

Speaker 11 (10:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:44):
So close that he has no idea.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
No idea, absolutely no idea.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
What I mean?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
This man was at my wedding.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
That's right. Bubble Windson not tied.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Said, y'all have been in some spaces together.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
That's right, my guy.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
All right, well that is your u T. And when
we come back, we have about last night. That's what
we talk about hip hop tip man stopping by on
the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop already but maybe one day.
You know, it's way up.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
So about last night? Last night went down?

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, it is way up at Angela ye Angela yee.
And Mano is here, you know it. And that's Mitchell
is here, Vaness.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Mitchell was in the building.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Everybody, Yes, stand up comedian but also an actor and
an author. And this is about last night. Now, when
did you get in town Finesse last night? Okay, so
did you do anything or you just went to sleep.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
I went to sleep.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Is that a good feeling sometimes?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah? Absolutely at this age, definitely.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
You should try it.

Speaker 6 (11:49):
Mano doing what sleeping?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, go to sleep at night because you were out.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
This is crazy, but I really don't sleep that much
through the night. I was out.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
I went to Appley, met me and Jim Jones. Shout
out to my brother Jim Jones. I've went over there.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Lobby boys.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
Lobby boys hung out with a Tracy T. Shout of
Tracy T and cash it all.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Okay, oh I love it. Cute couple.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah, this time ran in a TT tourist. She told
me she listened to the show. Okay, I wanted me
to shout out. Shout out to T T taurists at
love all right, definitely.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
All right with us?

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Dope. What was the Apple event?

Speaker 6 (12:19):
Uh, fifty year hip hop event?

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Okay, all right? A lot going on. Yeah, yesterday. I
actually was on a two hour zoom but it was
an interesting one. It was. It was a good one.
So there's this prize called the Just Brooklyn Prize, and
so what they do is they pick five different small
businesses that have to do with social justice that actually
helped the community, and they give them grants. So each

(12:42):
of those businesses gets a twenty thousand dollars grant. So
I'm on the committee to help pick who's going to
get this money. And so they narrowed it down to
ten different organizations and then we chose the five. And
I want to say something like that is really hard
to do. I remember Angie Martinez was talking about how
she had the opportunity to be a judge on American Idol,

(13:03):
and that's hard because while it's exciting to give money
to people and for people to win, it's also heartbreaking
when you're like, man, this is a tough decision because
everybody in that top ten could have, you know, all
made it far enough that they deserved to get that money,
because I think like over six hundred people. Yeah, they
were all amazing. Like when you hear some of the

(13:25):
things that these organizations are doing, you know, as far
as helping people connect to lawyers when they get arrested
right away, so and that's a free service, or helping
people keep their homes. You know, a lot of times
when gentrification happens, they'll try to take your home from
you and trick you out of your home. So there's
fund set up to help people with that, just all

(13:45):
different kinds of services, black maternal health care, making sure
that doulas are paid for by insurance, or making sure
that you can have access to a doula if you're pregnant,
to help you throughout that process and after just all
these things that really are supportive to people. And so
it was so hard to choose who was gonna get
that money. But it was a committee of us, so

(14:05):
we had to come together and vote and figure out
who what five what five organizations we're going to get
those grants.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
But they haven't definitely know how to make it easier
next time.

Speaker 6 (14:16):
Kickbacks?

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Who gonna give you the kickback?

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Angela, you gotta get paid, baby, this at al baby,
we in the house.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
That's how we do it.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
In the eight I'm gonna tell you this part. If
you had any type of affiliation or anything with any
of them, you have to recuse yourself from that part
of the voting.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Yeah, and but see that's how my gosh, don't you
get tired of playing by the rules?

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Right, that's how the Republicans win all the time. They
don't care about.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Rules, all right, Well, that's why your name is Finesse.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, I'm definitely getting ten percent if I give you
a grant.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Man, we already know what it is.

Speaker 6 (14:51):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
We already know what it is. But that is about
last night. Now when we come back. This is a
segment that happens on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This actually
happens to be Mano's favorite segment and Finesse, I feel
like you're gonna grow to love this. But this is
tell us a secret, so people get to call in
and you know, just put some things out.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
Here, Darky's secrets.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
And we don't judge them. So that's the hard part,
right when someone calls up and tells you something and
you're like, you did what you can't do that. You
got to have the game phase and be like, all right, well,
thank you for sharing with us. Yeah okay, And it's anonymous, right,
so if you want to go another room and call in.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, no, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
I saw what you'd be doing to people on your podcast,
what they be showing and expressing, and I'm like, yeah,
I'm I'm just going.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh man, yeah, that little check out that latest moment before.
But I'm eight hundred two ninety two fifty one fifty
years a number. Call us up and tell us a
secret again. That's eight hundred nine two fifty one to fifty.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Sell us a secret, got no secrets.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
It's way up.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's a judgment free zone.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
Tell us a secret.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yes, it is way up. With Angela.

Speaker 11 (15:56):
Yee?

Speaker 1 (15:56):
What's up? I'm Angela yee. Mano is here?

Speaker 6 (15:59):
What's hadden it?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Finess Mitchell is here.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
I'm in the building, Angela. I gotta get me some
more chains to be hanging out with you. All the
dudes in here, got dj will just what everybody comes
will crazy the fiftieth anniversary holiday.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
We're feeling ourselves today.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
You know what it is. But let's see if y'all
feeling yourselves or right, because it is time for tell
us a secrets. Eight hundred two ninety two fifty one
fifty is a number. And y'all know the rules. Well,
I don't know if Finess knows the rules. But the
rules are you cannot judge anybody, and people remain anonymous,
so they can tell us absolutely anything, and they definitely
can and will. It's hard for me no not to judge.

(16:34):
He feels like it's his responcise.

Speaker 6 (16:35):
I'm not a judger. I just give him real talk.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
They want it, they want the real and plus a
lot of these people they want your response. They want
to know what you think about some of the things
that they've done.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Plus y'all be hyping him up in the comments. Okay
to oh gosh, fifty one fifty again anonymously, let's hear
what you have to tell us a secret? Anonymous call it?
How are you?

Speaker 8 (17:00):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (17:01):
What's good? You want to tell us a secret? No judgment, guys,
So I did what ahead.

Speaker 10 (17:15):
I with this girl that she burnt me.

Speaker 8 (17:17):
She had the committee, so I left her alone, but
she blocked me, So I don't know. She knows she
got it, so.

Speaker 6 (17:25):
She burned, she gave it to you and then blocked you.

Speaker 8 (17:28):
Yeah, I left her alone before I knew.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Oh, so she blocked because you stopped talking to her.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
And then she knew she gave it to him.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
And then afterward, when he found out he had it.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
You tried to get back.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
She might have blocked him.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
No, she knew, she knew. Did she know that she
gave it to you?

Speaker 8 (17:47):
I don't know. I ain't talked to her.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Did she black you because you ghosted her?

Speaker 10 (17:51):
Well, maybe that's what I think.

Speaker 6 (17:53):
She blocked me.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
So I don't know, go house, send her a cash
app request and then the cash at request be like
for the chamydia you gave me a.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Lot of women don't know they carrying a lot of
women don't know they carrying chlamydia.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Dudes know, that's how you find out if you give
it to some money and then I mean.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's what I heard. I don't you know. I don't
know how I did.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
How did you? Were you burning? Like that's how you
found out?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Now you don't burn? Well, No, I don't know, sir.

Speaker 10 (18:27):
No, you can tell. You can tell when you pee,
like it's just to be coming out like two different.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Like that that happened to you, finness, Is that how
you tell?

Speaker 4 (18:38):
I think I was a victim of this back in college.
And so if I remember correctly, yes, when you pee,
your your your spray can go different directions because you
you're a little pussy.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Up up top. Oh locks the urethra.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
And by the way, we can't say pussy.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
So I'm thinking, as I talked while.

Speaker 10 (19:00):
On DM Hull, I ain't trying to reach out.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Now, well, at least it was terrible.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
So yeah, get to take the pills for two weeks
once a day and cranberry juice.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
This is what I'm hearing.

Speaker 8 (19:14):
You and your butt.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
You could have kept that to yourself.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
A shot in your butt? Is that true?

Speaker 2 (19:22):
I have no clue.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Okay, that might have been something else you had too.
All right, well, thank you for sharing.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
And as you can see, you're not the only one. Hey,
Anonymous color, how are you.

Speaker 8 (19:36):
I'm good, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
We're good here. We're not gonna judge you. We're ready
to hear your secret.

Speaker 8 (19:41):
So a little while back, I had a girl that
keet it on me, and he lied about it the
whole time. So eventually I came up with the idea
that every time I see her car, I'm putting sugar in.
It might not be her car, but I don't care.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
It might not be her car.

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Teddy man, why would you do that?

Speaker 11 (19:59):
Now?

Speaker 10 (19:59):
Why would you?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
The problem I have is what about all these innocent
people's cars?

Speaker 2 (20:04):
It'd be all right, do you have a call?

Speaker 11 (20:08):
Jo?

Speaker 15 (20:08):
Do?

Speaker 6 (20:09):
And so? How would you feel if somebody put sugar
in your car?

Speaker 10 (20:12):
My car in the garage?

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Number you didn't have a license plate number or anything
to make sure you're at least you're targeting the right person.

Speaker 10 (20:20):
No, see, the only one person I know that got
like the steering will.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Okay, so let me ask you the question that we
all want to know. Are you just randomly walking around
with a pound of sugar in your pocket just in
case you run up on our car to a good point?

Speaker 8 (20:34):
Nah, I'm not a lie. I keep a pound of
sugar in the back feet of my car, so if
I'm dropping around, I do see the car, it's right there.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yes, it might be something wrong. All right, Well I
can't wait to you move on and find somebody else
so you could forget about this.

Speaker 10 (20:52):
Oh I did. It's just more fun to keep messing with.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
People, all right.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well, thank you for calling. You're welcome anything anytime. Hey,
anonymous color, how are you finesse Mitchell's hair Mayno's hair.
They're not gonna judge you. Do you want to tell
us a secret?

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (21:09):
Basically I had such one, of course with my b
and mother.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
How did you do that with his penis?

Speaker 5 (21:16):
Like? How did you get her to do that? Did
you do did you do them all both together?

Speaker 9 (21:20):
No?

Speaker 2 (21:21):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Actually, my BM told me to go drop some value
off her mother, and my mother smoke.

Speaker 10 (21:26):
So when I went to do it, one thing led
to another.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
She gave me a compliment.

Speaker 10 (21:30):
I'm a leo compliment, elite engagement.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, I'm not judge. Yeah, I'm not judge. You did
you did what you had to do.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
You know you only did it once.

Speaker 10 (21:39):
No, Yeah, my cousin now you car now so.

Speaker 6 (21:44):
She might have to give you a legendary status. Man,
you're a legend. Man.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
You introduced it to your cousin.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, yeah you did that.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah wow.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
Do your cousin know that you that you slammed up?

Speaker 10 (21:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (21:56):
I told him, I'm okay, I be married here.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
Okay, that's right.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Listen, man, sit family, right, they like That's right, they
like it.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
We love it.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
But thank you for calling.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Hope, I'm putting no sugar in your gas tank.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Thanks for sharing with all.

Speaker 10 (22:12):
Love y'all, man, appreciate.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Love you too. All right, Well, that was tell us
a secret. And in case you couldn't get through, eight
hundred two ninety two fifty one fifty is a number.
Y'all did a good job of not judging. Yeah, it
was nothing to Judge Mayne, I wish you would have
shared your story also about what Comydia.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
No, I don't have a story about this.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
All right, when we come back, we have yet, and
let's talk about Missy Elliott. It is the fiftieth anniversary
of hip hop and she has number one on the
list of one hundred and fifty best hip Hop music videos.
Will tell you what she had to say. It's the
way you put Angela yee.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
She's about to blow the lid about this fot.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Let's get it.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Angela's feeling that yet, come and get your tea.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes, it's the way you put Angela yee. I'm Angela Yee.
Mano is here, yeah, yes, And Vanessa Mitchell is here.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
I'm Morgan Freeman and I'm here comedian.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Whoa, I'm at that Levety Live this weekend people, Yes,
West Nya.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
West Nayak Friday, Saturday and Sunday in case anybody wants
to go, I'm trying to figure out which day I'm going.
But let's get into some yet, Missy Elliott. According to
the list of the best videos hip Hop videos of
all time, the one hundred and fifty greatest hit hip
Hop Videos of all time, Missy Elliott is number one,
and I think that's very well does it. Missy Elliott

(23:31):
used to movie like, honestly, she has the most creative videos,
her dancing and styling, all of that. Yeah, so congratulations
to her. Super Dupa Fly was the song of the
rain and she said, fun fact, I had to go
to a gas station in Brooklyn to get air in
this blow up suit and the super blew up so
big I couldn't fit in the car, so I had

(23:51):
to walk back to sit down the street in this
outfit in Brooklyn. Then people was riding past like she
must be high.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Wow, and it became an iconic scene that videos crazy classic.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
So this is all according to Rolling Stone. So shout
out to everybody.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
That was my favorite video.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
And yoh yeah, that's a great video too. Now, Dune
Ambrose said, wow, well deserved, and she shout it out Missy,
Hype Williams, Mona, Scott silvi Aron and all the creators
involved in this production because clearly, you know, June Ambrose
is like the best stylist ever, so she was involved
in that too, all right. So other people on that list,
Cardi B and Meg the Stallion made the list would wop.

(24:27):
They were number twenty three, Missy Elliott made it again
and number twenty five would work it just as a fyi.
So congratulations to everybody.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
That's when they used to spend like three million dollars
millions on video.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Man Hype Williams was caking out. Let me see that,
you see the whole list. Let me give me. Number
two was public Enemy fight the power buster rhymes, put
your hands where my eyes can see. Number four BC
Boys sabotaging, Number five outcasts Bob bombs of a bag dad.
All right, now, let's talk about your guy, one half
of the Lobby Boys, Jim Jones. He is saying that

(25:02):
the locks gave him COVID. Here's what he said on
the preview for Drink Champs. I called covid acting verses
after the verses on.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
Top everybody.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
I couldn't That's one of the funniest verses ever.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
That was the biggest verses.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
I think that was hilarious. Styles p was. There were
some moments in there.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
That was a real moment for Out of City.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Did you watch that fins.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
You know it gave me chills.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
When Jada Kiss did the whole talk intro of what
I'm on my block where they be at we outside,
and then went into the actual song.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Whatever that song was.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
It's a freestyle.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
And let me tell you something too. When I remember
we had the conversation right Dipset versus the Locks before,
and I was like, I'm gonna be honest, the Lacks
are gonna be more organized.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, that's what it.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Felt like, And that's really what it. No shade to anybody,
but you know, I just found you're on.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
The outside looking in and you're a fan of New
York krepop and you saw two groups like that. When
I saw Jada Kiss and his boys, I was like, oh, yeah,
they talked before.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
They actually want us.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
They used to performing together, they have the routine.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Wasn't performing together.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
They and they probably rehearsing and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Right, doing what you're supposed to do, all right. And
speaking of Drinke, TAM's a con says that he wore
that fake Dior jacket. Remember he said Drio and not
Dior a lot of a lot of money. He did
it for a reason. Here's what he said.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
YU want to know where did you get that Drio
rio came from? One of my Africans. I knew that
because I knew the one person to notice. And it's
gonna Cat.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah. Cat, I was just thinking.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
That even after he gave friends watch, he con must
be stopped.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
They come must be stopped.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
All right, Well that is your yet and when we
come back, we have under the radar. These are the
stories that are not in the headlines, but they are
under the radar and you still need to know them anyway.
I'm Angela ye Meno and Finesse Mitchell.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
News.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
This in the news that relates to you. These stories
are flying under the radar.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yes, it is way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela
Yee Mano is here, Faness Mitchell is here.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Shut out to Mount Vernon, all the cousins, Judy Brown,
Charlie Brown, Benny Brown.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Okay, Charlie Brown, sir, I mean yes, ma'am, all right,
and let's get into some of these under the radar
stories now in honor of tell us a secret today
the guy who called in who had chlamydia uh s
t I. Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise in
the United States. But now there is a pill that
you can take after sex. It can help slow them down.

(28:05):
It's called doxy cycling, and it's a class of medications that's.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
Traditionally used.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
What issues, that's it. Traditionally it's been used to treat
bacterial sdis after you've been infected. But research suggests that
if you take a dose of that drug, it can
help prevent infections among men who have sex with men
if taken with it, it's taken within seventy two hours

(28:34):
after to say, I was waiting for that. Okay. So
the number of simplest cases in the US are at
their highest level in over fifty years, by the way,
so this is something that perhaps can be done. And
they've been still doing studies on this. So we're just uh,
you know, keeping you guys aware on how can be

(28:55):
helped doxy cycling.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, that's it. That's the committee.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
They can now prevent commydia, gunnaria, syphilis, and gay and
bisexual men and trans women. All right, strikings, striking screenwriters
will resume negotiations with studios, and that's going to happen today,
thank goodness. All Right, So, the Writers Guild of America
sent a message to their members yesterday saying they expect
the studios will respond to their proposals. They met last
week to discuss possibly restarting negotiations, but no dates were

(29:23):
immediately set, and so now they set. Our committee returns
to the bargaining table, ready to make a fair deal,
knowing the unified WGA membership stands behind us, and also
from the ongoing support of our union allies. So it's
been one hundred and one days since screenwriters have been
on strike.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Pray for is Jesus getting rough.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Actors guils, screenwriters guil. We all stand in solidarity. There's
no way you can have AI write the scripts the
on camera look alikes because they copied your face and
your image.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
And then when your stuff gets when when the stud when.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
The things you write get renegotiated to a streamer when
you wrote it for CBS and you get a very small.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Check, right but one Yeah, it's like a whole separate deal.
It should be to come back to the table figure out.

Speaker 6 (30:17):
How this works.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
It's so and it's like the music biz that the
streamers will say, well, we don't know how we're getting.
We don't know either how much money we're making. A guess,
yes you do, you know?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Lots and the fact that Billy Porter had to actually
sell he has to sell his house. I mean that's
I look at him as somebody who's very successful, and
so it just goes to show you like people are like, oh,
we don't care about these rich people problems. No, it's
everybody is not making the money that everybody are making.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
That is the main thing. Everybody's not making the money
that people are making. Instagram and all that stuff. The
pictures are nice, but it's not what the monthly in.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Rich all right now, speaking are rich. There's a deal
that is bringing together six powerhouse labels under one umbrella.
Coach is the parent company and they're acquiring Versace, Michael Cors,
Jimmy Two, Kate SPADs, do It, Whitesman, all of them
are gonna be together. So Coach, So Tapestry, that's the

(31:16):
luxury conglomerate headquartered in New York City, has announced its
plans to acquire Capri Holding, that's a competitor. It's an
eight point five billion dollar deal. By the way, So Coach,
Kate Spade, and Stuart Wissman are all owned by Tapestry,
and then Capri owns Versace, Michael Cors and Jimmy Chwo.
So now they're all going to be under this Tapestry umbrella.
So they did announce this acquisition yesterday after the merger

(31:39):
was approved.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
So yeah, I watch people still pay triple for the
Versace and Jimmy Choo, but it's all owned by Coach
if that make any sense.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Well, yeah, the parent label of Coach.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah yeah, the parent Tapestry. Now it's all under the
same umbrella. So there you have it, all right, and
that is you're under the radar now.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
You know.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
We got the Way Up mix at the top of
the hour plus it is the fiftieth anniversary of Hip
Hop and Fab five Freddy is going to be joining
us today Legend alongside the New York Public Libraries doctor
Brandy McNeill. They have this whole fiftieth anniversary initiative going
on at the New York Public Library as well. All right,
it's way up at Angela yee.

Speaker 7 (32:17):
This says the rooms from Industry Shade to all the
gossip out Angelas.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Spieling that.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yes, it is way up at Angela yee. I'm Angela
ye and Maino is here now, Mana and stand up
comic actor author host Vaness Mitchell is here.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
I'm in the building. What's up, everybody?

Speaker 1 (32:37):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Now?

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Let's get into some yet. Chris Tecker has announced his
first in of comedy tour in over a decade. It's
called Legend Tour.

Speaker 12 (32:45):
Man.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
It's a thirty city comedy tour and he's gonna be
kicking that off September eighth in North Charleston, South Carolina,
Sat Prime, SAT Time. That's clearly Chris Tucker here in
the studio with us, all right. Now, next up, Tyrese.
He's been having some issues and he's suing Home Depot
for one million dollars. He said it's racial profiling. He

(33:10):
went to go to the store and he has two
other plaintiffs, Eric Mora and Manuel Hernandez, and they're saying
that he spent at Home Depot locations about a million
dollars in his lifetime. He wants that money in addition
to punitive damages and a declaratory judgment declaring that Home
Depot's actions violated California's Civil Rights Act.

Speaker 6 (33:31):
You're fighting for his rights, man.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Now, if you want to know what happened, you want
the money back that he already spent.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yes, according to tyren Tom. He said that he waited
in the vehicle for these two guys to complete their
transaction with his credit card, and because fans started to
notice that Tyrese was in the store, so he said
he told the cashier that he would allow them to
use his card to complete the purchase, but the cashier
refused even after Tyrese came back in the store. All right,

(33:55):
here's what he had to say on his Live I
was just in.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Your store, ma'am.

Speaker 16 (34:00):
If you're gonna talk to your manager, if you're gonna
talk to your manager, tell your manager the truth. I
was just in the store and I gave my guys
my credit card in front of your staff and team member,
and I walked off. Don't say that I'm not there
with no ID. You can pull up the cameras. I
was there five minutes ago. This is completely unnecessary.

Speaker 11 (34:22):
Man.

Speaker 16 (34:23):
Should I have the CEO of Home Depot to call
you tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (34:26):
Because he's my neighbor.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
He's my nelighbor in Atlanta, Big flex, real, big flex.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yes, he posted this on YouTube so people could see
what happened the neighbor. Okay, don't make me listen.

Speaker 6 (34:41):
We should go to Louis Vuitton.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
You should pull up over there and you hand me
your credit card and see if you know swipe something.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Listen, I knock him out.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Please come and knock.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
Lay No out.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
I love home Depot. I live in home Depot. I'm
always there. There are not that many people in home
Depot where you're going to feel overwhelmed as a shopper.
So I don't know why you would even be like, oh,
it's too many fans. I'm gonna just go back to
the car, because.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Fairness, deepot do we crowded on the weekends when everybody's
doing their home projects.

Speaker 6 (35:19):
Fight and New York.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Home Depot is lit? Oh yeah, not in Jersey. It's
lit because we don't have that many of them, all right.
And I'm still alive, a little tay. There were reports
that her and her brother were dead, but apparently they
are safe.

Speaker 6 (35:36):
So this was it, This was a prank.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
I'm still alive. So apparently according to what they're saying.
There's a statement that was provided to TMZ and she
said that those reports of her death were false. She
also confirmed her brother was alive, and apparently they said
their Instagram account was compromised by a third party and
used to spread jars, misinformation and rumors so much so

(36:02):
to the point she said that even my name is wrong,
my leg my legal name is at I not clear hope.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Oh yeah, this girl, yeah, she was she was pronounced I.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Don't know that she was pronounced it.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we reported on it.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
I'm still alive.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
You know what, somebody probably said, yo, that that girl
and the girl who said she saw the baby and
had to go save the baby in Alabama. Yes, yes,
somebody probably had a long talk with her and said, yo,
go to jail.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Charlie Russell, Yeah, yeah, it takes former manager, by the way,
is not buying that her social media was hacked, he said,
because originally he said, I think she's still alive and
I think it was fake. And he said, I don't
believe anything that they say about the hacking. I'm glad
that she's okay. So that's his response. And I saw
when he first said to be wary of following this

(36:57):
story when it was saying that.

Speaker 5 (37:00):
It was funny because the police was like, we don't
have no record of nobody with that name doing she.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Owe him money.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
That's why he said, all right, Well, that is your
yet and you know it's a Friday, so you know
what that means. There's new music out and I love that.
Faness and Maynor have been talking about music behind the
scenes all morning and we're gonna bring that fascinating you
guys this afternoon. New music Friday when we come back.
It's the way you put Angela Yee.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
You've gotten the way up with Angela Ye.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yes, it is way up. Put Angela Yee on a Friday,
and I'm here with Maino and Vanessa Mitchell.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yes, yes, you shout out to all the noops out there, Yo, yo,
see y'all. If y'all in the New York City area
over there and West Nayak devity live Ka can't even
say because West Nayak. If you got a good car,
come to West Nayak tonight tomorrow Sunday and comedy shows.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Yeah, good car, if you could make it out there
and make it break down.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
Oh yeah, Uber, Uber, come on, come out, dare gets
you drinks, get your laugh phonelet's have a good time.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
I'm in the city, all right.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well, if you want to buy some CDs today, right CDs?
Remember people used to actually go to the.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Stars the show. You know, no more of that now
you give them thumb drives in QR code.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Okay, Well, new music that's out today, all right. So
Reason has an album out today. It's called Porches, and
of course we got to play some reason. Here is
Gina august Alsina.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
Hey, triple Mam, want just to double.

Speaker 17 (38:33):
The salary, and now they tell me they're proud of me.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
That's what like that?

Speaker 6 (38:37):
I like that?

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Yes, the reason. I think he's going to be here
next week. We were trying to get him up here before.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
And did you say August I was on that.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
No, it's called Gina august Alsina. Okay. Also out today
Trippy Read a Love Letter to You five and here
is this song featuring Little Wayne. It's called I'm Mad
at Me.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
Your birthday suit is real fashionable. I'm willing to let
the past just be the past with.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
You because he's all right. Also out today is Ride
forty nine for God Too, and this song is viral
featuring Little Dirk.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Why do you say silent?

Speaker 6 (39:13):
I know you who is lying?

Speaker 1 (39:14):
I can from the alright, that's a deluxe version. He's
from New Orleans. Also d Perico seven figures later, no
name Sundal is out today and Carol g Maniana. All right.
You know we've been playing a new single from DJ
Kelly featuring a Little Baby featuring Little Uzzi Ver It's
supposed to be loved all morning. That was our premiere

(39:36):
this morning. Also, French Montana got a new song out.
It's called Good Summer Tuesday. Okay, you like that. That's
a a good sumthing that.

Speaker 6 (39:53):
New Orleans belts.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
And then I got a little dance tall vibe to it,
so out today. Miguel and Little YACHTI number nine, that
single is out, uh Bea and Luciano Mommy Doodle, I
mean at I got a wire on yours.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
I'm with a gang in this plural.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Ok get it.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Beer, I love people. I love that sound, that voice. Yeah,
you know that float is dope.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
What do you say behind it? She just like sexy,
a little dirty, like a little.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
Yeah, it's like a dirty, dirty shat day.

Speaker 6 (40:31):
We like that.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Be A also Sata Baby, Fresh Sauce, Walker, Dat Boyden,
Money Man Fair, No Man, Heat, Bigger than Everything, and
es t G and Yogati Moments Bugatti. Listen, faness. We
want to make sure you know about all the new music.

Speaker 10 (40:50):
At all time.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
So every Friday, I'm going to FaceTime you and play
segment of the show.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Yes, and I'm gonna do some research, uh.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Because Vanessa will be like, I don't know and then
you play, oh yeah you know that is yeah, but
a lot of people are like that, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
You don't know the names. Yeah, you don't know the songs.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
When we want to come when we come back, we
want to make sure people know Faness Mitchell. So, Mana,
we're gonna have a talk with Finesse. We told finess
a lot about you. Now we're going to hear a
lot about him. What I say, I said, google don't okay,
don't google. Don't google Mano. But when we come back,
you can google Faness Mitchell and you'll see all great things.
It's the way Up with Angela yeey.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
She back at it, bringing up with Angela ye is on.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Yes, it is way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee.
Mano is here. You know what's so funny about this?
This is the break because Vaness Mitchell has been a
guest hosting This Morning. He's a very funny comedian. He
actually was a cast member on SNL previously, also, and
then you know, he does stand up and now we're
doing a break all about Finesse and he goes to

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the bathroom.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
Yeah, because it was a break, but he's real break. Hey, Finesse,
what's up, Angela?

Speaker 2 (42:06):
How are you main something?

Speaker 6 (42:07):
Homie?

Speaker 1 (42:08):
All right, so, fess I want to make sure people
know your whole story too. Just as far as you
as you're from Atlanta, I'm from the atl Yeah, you're
from the atl I thought I.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
Was gonna play professional football. I went to the University
of Miami on a walk on scholarship. That did not
happen because they played football for real. They were very
fast and huge, and I realized I didn't want to
get hit like that. And practicing that hot heat.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Well, it all worked out.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
It all worked out. I thought I was gonna be
a rapper. I started interning that Luke.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Records, you Internet, Luke Records?

Speaker 2 (42:40):
What doing the Heyday Hazy Ahead a time, I.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Was in charge of putting h Town in confidence and
Best Westerns and and well.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
That tell us a secret makes so much more sense
now for her.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
You do your promo tour, and I was putting them
in nice hotels.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
I'll never get hey, you Hey, you standing there too.
He gave me a list and the.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Comfort in yeah and h Town knocking the Boy, that's
a classic song.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
And I was so with the Diddy people and the
faced people. They all wanted our gear because of course
Luke had these peak show trinkets and stuff and posts
and them. So I would just trade with whoever was
in my position at different record companies.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
You know, I tried to be a rapper that work out.
Then I was telling one what type.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Of rap was it? Like, what would you have categorizing?
Like do it do a little verse for us?

Speaker 4 (43:41):
I'm the FI, I'm the F I N the double
s C. I'm impressive and ladies find me hard to
handle because I'm aggressive. And if you can't handle aggression,
then see you because I'm gonna keep on stepping. And
grew up quick from an age because of my past
to come home with a blast that a last I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
That was.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
Fifty So yeah, so then that's I started time.

Speaker 17 (44:07):
I should have just reestyled for matecause that was now.
So that was actual rhyme, right, that was a rhyme. Yeah,
that was that, that was me.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
That was yeah, that.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Was a while ago.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
So yeah, that was nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yeah, so but yeah, did you get any traction back.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Then with it or no? I know I hated my voice.
You know how sometimes you talk and when you.

Speaker 5 (44:29):
Hear yourself in your head, the way you hear on
the record is different.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
And I couldn't stand it. I literally took myself out
of the business because I'm like, if that's how it sound,
I hate it. When I should have just sounded like
this because Andre from three that you know, he's out
like this. I should have just been talking like that
because that's it's Brazilian records.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
Could I just don't want to stop doing Okay, so
stand up happens.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
Yeah, and then I do an open mic night. I
get a standing ovation doing open mic night. I come
back the next week with all my friends and I
wear a shirt and tie. Was excited and I got
but it wasn't booed. It was just nobody said nothing.
But I didn't know you were supposed to say the
same stuff you said tonight. I just thought, yeah, that's
not How.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
Was you already like a funny dude like you was
always got known.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
For jokes, conversational funny, but never stand up okay, So
it was literally a dare. It was literally like, I
bet you wonna go up there, you know, watch me?

Speaker 1 (45:21):
But you did good to open mic night. I did,
and that's where it all started. Ladies and gentlemen. Now, no,
we don't have that much time to talk to you,
but because it is a fifty the anniversary of hip hop,
but we're gonna get back to you Saturday Night Live,
Saturday Night Live. He was a cast Williams show. Most
recently I saw that, Yes.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
Disney Channel ant Farm played China's Dad. But I've done
every possible comedy show you could do.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Yeah, Faness is amazing. He's been very consistent throughout the years.
You had a special, You have a specialized show time,
ye as well.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
I just finished another special, waiting for the strike to
be over so I can sell it to somebody.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Oh well, y'all know it's available for everybody listening there
needed bye. All right, get in line now. It is
the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop. That we do have
Fab five Freddy when we come back alongside doctor Brandy McNeil,
we're gonna talk to them. She's from the New York
Public Library and they have something at the Schomberg that
they're doing together. But we'll discuss a lot of the
history of hip hop with Fab five Freddy. He was

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their first ever host of MTV reps. We'll discuss when
we come back. It's way up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
You Way up with Angela Yee more.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Now, what's up this? Way up with Angela Yee. I'm
Angela Yee. And Jasmine from the Jasmine Brand is here. Yes,
and we have two great guests with us. We got
the iconic Fab five Freddy is here with.

Speaker 6 (46:38):
Us, happy to be here, Nice to see you.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
And doctor Brandon McNeill. I'm gonna call you iconic as well. Yes,
icon She's a Deputy director of Digital Literacy Workforce Readyness,
so the education ESOL and cultural programs. That's for the
New York Public Library. There's a lot of titles, yes,
and it's the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop. You guys
have been doing a lot that by Freddie, You've been

(47:02):
doing so much, it's never stopped for you.

Speaker 17 (47:04):
It's been a blessing. So there's a lot of work
to be done and I've been I've been.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Doing the work because you were the first ever host
of Yo MTV rap.

Speaker 6 (47:11):
Yes, I was.

Speaker 17 (47:12):
Yeah, in the beginning of your MTV raps, cable was
still a kind of a new thing. Raps went on
the eight, so a lot of Manhattan was wired. But
I'm from Bedstar Brooklyn, and Brooklyn Bedstar wasn't fully wide. Yes,
I used to have to get I had it in
my contract. Got to get a couple of VHS tapes.

(47:32):
One I'd keep and one would go to my parents
in Brooklyn so they could see what I'm doing. Like, look,
I'm like really. We did to show for about seven
years or so through that critical you know, golden era
of hip hop.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
I mean, listen, you have some of the most iconic interviews,
and at the time that you're doing things, you don't
even know in the future what that would turn out
to be. You did Tupac's first ever interview.

Speaker 17 (47:57):
Yes, I was looking at that too, Yeah, the first
I interviewed Pac. Actually, it was interesting. It was a
clever idea we came up with. I'd like to say.
He was filming the movie Juice, so they were in
New York shooting and we decided let's interview him on
the set. I did a cameo in the movie Juice
as well. I'm actually playing myself like I'm covering that

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big battle DJ battle going on. And then I so
we interviewed I interviewed Tupac, and then we wait to
air that when the film drops. So we now have
here's a look at Tupac on the set. You know,
here's the thing, and you'll go and see him in
the film. But I interviewed Pac several times, and a
lot of the pivotal people that define the kind of

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greatest era of hip hop made their television debut national television.

Speaker 6 (48:44):
Debut on Young TV raps. So a lot of special.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Memories now doctor Brandon McNeill and Jazz and I'm gonna
ask both of you, do you remember the first hip
hop song you ever heard?

Speaker 11 (48:53):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (48:53):
I think the first one that I remember really knowing
was gonna be Salt.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
And Let's push it.

Speaker 13 (49:01):
That one for me was like, ok I've got that
down pad, Okay, So.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
What about you?

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Cool J I need love? Really yeah, it feels later,
I know, that's that's my truth. Yeah, that sound you
know what's crazy. When I was young, I remember they
had when they were like Sandy Dough and they had
it did a this song right to the UTFO crew.
Do you remember that? And that was way early on

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because Push it was a little later. But in Tramp
I remember, I remember, I remember yeah, yeah, yeah, Tramp
and I remember the video and they had tramps right
across the guy's faces. You know, I remember super Sonic
JJ fab Yeah.

Speaker 17 (49:44):
Yeah, I'm gonna tell you something about that super Sonic record.
Ice Cube wrote that entire album.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
He really is ice Cube ice Cube. That's hilarious.

Speaker 17 (49:53):
Actually I did the same thing, and it was Jerry
Hella that had a ruthless record and I'm like, wait,
I did, like had to ask him like twice.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
But that's the skills of a writer. Yeah, it's like, okay,
I can you.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Know I can write for women. Just watching that video
the other day was yes, because that video was and
then when she was rapping real fast no no no, no,
that was wrote that too.

Speaker 17 (50:17):
Yes, you put it all together for them, which was
pretty incredible to think about that.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
At that time, we're talking to doctor Brandy McNeil from
the New York Public Library and the legendary Fab five Freddy.
So for you, Fab five Freddy, since you go way
back in this right, do you even remember the first
time you were like, this is a real thing, because
I know when hip hop first started, after you know,
after Disco, everybody was like, this is a fad, This
is not going anywhere, this is not going to be

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something that's gonna be sustainable. And people didn't take it seriously.

Speaker 6 (50:46):
That's true, they didn't.

Speaker 17 (50:47):
And being that I had made some significant moves early on,
like around hip hop's first film, Wild Style, when I
would do early press, they would all ask, how long
do I think it's going to last?

Speaker 6 (50:59):
This is a fact three years at least.

Speaker 17 (51:02):
A lot of people felt that I definitely didn't. I
could not have imagined hip hop would be around for
so long and so dominant. But in thinking about that,
I realized how deep those roots went. I think that's
the amazing thing, and how this went to countries all
around the world.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
I remember I was watching recently also David Bowie, remember
that MTV interview where.

Speaker 15 (51:24):
It occurred to me, having watched the MTV over the
last few months, I'm just flowed by the fact that
there's so many, so few black answers featured on it.
Why is that?

Speaker 12 (51:32):
I think that we're trying to move in that direction.
We want to play artists that seemed to be doing
music that fits into what we want to play for MTV.
There's the company is thinking in terms of narrow casting.

Speaker 15 (51:44):
There's evident in the fact that the only few black
answers that one does see are on about two thirty
in the morning.

Speaker 17 (51:50):
That interview he did two there's a couple of David Bowie.
That's a big David Bowie fan, by the way, but
that literally seeing the interview when he's talking to one
of the empty tvvjs and asking them why they don't
play black music, and the MTV guy didn't have a
good answer at all. Yeah, David Bowie, you could feel
how awkward he felt because it was really no good reason, right.

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And that was just a few years before Yo MTV
raps happened indirectly influenced like we need to make a move,
which was a very radical move because way ahead of
B E T, MTV put a rap shore on the
air and the ratings instantly became the highest ratings on
the channel. MTV was trying to mimic what radio was

(52:33):
doing at that time, and so radio in America in
some cases still is.

Speaker 6 (52:38):
But it was very segregated at the.

Speaker 17 (52:39):
Time, so if you were a black artist, no matter
what kind of music you made, you were considered urban
dance or urban or soul funk or one of those
other categories never popped, and so they mimiced that in
terms of only playing what was on pop charts, pop radio.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
There's a lot of rock too. I feel like they
put a lot of rock.

Speaker 6 (53:00):
He said, yeah, a lot of rock, a lot of
stuff out of England.

Speaker 17 (53:02):
And it was Michael Jackson's label that pressured them, and
they said, Man, if you don't play this Billy Jean
and whatever, we're gonna pull all the other acts, which
included Bruce Springsteen and a bunch of other acts. We're
going to pull them off of the label and make
it a real glaring fact.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Because how do you not do Thriller? Remember when Thriller
came out? Yeah, that was a literal movie.

Speaker 6 (53:21):
Yeah, it really was.

Speaker 17 (53:22):
And it changed the whole nature of video making, and
MTV blew up.

Speaker 6 (53:28):
You know, the ratings went through the roof again and
again and again.

Speaker 17 (53:31):
So that all played a six significant part in breaking
those walls down, making change.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
All right, Well, fab five Freddy is here with us,
so is doctor Brandy McNeil from the New York Public Library.
We'll be back with some more. It's way up with
Angela Yee.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
You rat the way up with Angela Yee?

Speaker 1 (53:49):
What's up this way up with Angela Yee? And Happy
fiftieth anniversary of hip hop and I'm here with Jasmine
Brand We are talking to the legend bad By Freddy
alongside doctor Brandy McNeil from the New York Public Library.
What did you think you were going to do in
your life?

Speaker 6 (54:03):
Like?

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Besides, before all this happened and you became a host,
because that's not something you could have ever envisioned for yourself.
What did your parents think you were going to be?

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Like?

Speaker 1 (54:12):
What did you think?

Speaker 6 (54:12):
That's a very good question. So I was always a
smart kid, but I.

Speaker 17 (54:16):
Didn't do well in school, so the disciplinary aspects of school.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
Didn't work well for me.

Speaker 17 (54:22):
But I was always in books and in the library,
and a part of how I became an artist I
was just sharing with her was I don't recommend cutting school,
but I would do a fair share of cutting school,
but I would do different I would go to different
museums and libraries in the city, just on an exploratory tip,
I'd get my little bus subway paths and go to

(54:42):
the main branch of the New York Public Library, the
Schwartzman Building.

Speaker 6 (54:46):
I'd go to the Metropolitan Museum. So I got very comfortable.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
With self taught right essentially, and so.

Speaker 17 (54:51):
The idea of making art, being an artist, it all
became something big in my mind.

Speaker 6 (54:56):
And then I began to figure out how.

Speaker 17 (54:58):
Could I make moves and get myself into this space,
which was not anything typical for young black kid at
twenty twenty one to figure out how to get into
the art world. But making the moves that I made,
Connecting with people on the downtown scene, punk rock, new wave,
blondie people that were doing things in culture like hurt

(55:19):
my ideas and they said, we like what this is,
we like the way this sounds. Come on, and let's
make it happen.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
So isn't it amazing to have lived your life doing
the things that you care about and you're passionate about.

Speaker 6 (55:30):
Oh yeah, it's been a blessing. That is truly a blessing.

Speaker 17 (55:34):
And the way you phrase it, just to do the
things that I love and I care about and to
be able to pay the bills, it's been, it's been special.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Now truly like a cultural icon for us. And I
do really appreciate you for coming through. Doctor Brandy McNeil.
I don't know if you guys let people know again,
where can they find out information? How can they get
this wild style limited edition library card and go.

Speaker 13 (55:55):
To NYPL dot org slash hip hop.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Hey, thank you?

Speaker 12 (56:01):
Right?

Speaker 11 (56:01):
And that five?

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Freddy? I mean, can you post some more Instagram please?
We need you to.

Speaker 6 (56:05):
I will post a little bit more, just Y.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
I have so many great things that people need to see.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
I'm bringing it to you.

Speaker 17 (56:10):
I'm also in early stages of working on my memoir.
I've got to collaborate I'm going to work with and
so I've got a lot I want to lay it
out in detail. It might even be need to be
a two volume memoir.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
I can't even imagine.

Speaker 6 (56:22):
I want to tell I got some stories to tell.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
And I just want to ask you one last thing.
How important since we're talking about history here, do you
think it is now for these artists, these younger artists,
to know their history because some of them feel like,
you know, we're doing our own thing. It's evolved, and
leave us alone and just support what the next generation
is doing. But sometimes you feel like, look, at least
know what came before you. What are your thoughts on that.

Speaker 17 (56:46):
I think that's exactly right. Artists should know and it's
so easy. I was one of those kids that spent
a lot of time at the library. So back in
that era, if you wanted to learn about what happened
in previous eras you went to books, some libraries had
records that you could take out, put the headphones on
and listen to this era of kids. All of this information,

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everything that happens just a few clicks away, and it's
important to understand that so that you can know where
we've been. When that road, that fork in the road
comes up in your life and your young life, you
can see which way to go and how to navigate.

Speaker 6 (57:25):
GPS is even a few clicks away. There's so many tools.
There's really no.

Speaker 17 (57:30):
Excuse, you know, to not be on your game and
understand some of the histories.

Speaker 6 (57:34):
And it's a lot of fun too.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Yeah, some of my favorite artists are the ones that
have you can tell that they have been inspired by
just some of the older artists and the artists that
came before them.

Speaker 6 (57:45):
Absolutely, that's really important.

Speaker 13 (57:47):
That's why it's so important at the library about the
banned books right to make sure that people can get
access to the history.

Speaker 6 (57:53):
Great point.

Speaker 17 (57:54):
There's some crazy people in different parts of the country
that literally are trying to ban books and education.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Can people from Florida get a New York Public library?
Can you come here and go to the library?

Speaker 6 (58:09):
They can?

Speaker 1 (58:09):
Okay, yeah, they can definitely come here and do it. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. Can I come here? It's mass
We got you guys, Okay, got to Florida.

Speaker 6 (58:20):
End.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
He's so good at this. Yeah, I mean he's a pro.
So yeah, well, thank you, fab five Freddie. We really
do appreciate you, doctor Brandy McNeill always appreciate you too.
Thank you. And when we come back we have asked yee.
That's when you guys get to call in eight hundred
two nine fifty one fifty and ask any question you
want and we are here to help. It's way up
at Angela Yee.

Speaker 7 (58:40):
Everybody since whether it's relationship, for career advice, Angela's dropping facts,
should know.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
This is ask what's up? Its way up at Angela Yee.
I'm Angela Yee. And the award winning advice giver Mano
is here. That is that is me and Finess Mitchell,
the author who can actually help all women out. Okay,
Faness Mitchell's and we have an anonymous caller who needs
some help. Hello, Hi, how you doing girl?

Speaker 8 (59:05):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 11 (59:06):
How are you doing?

Speaker 1 (59:07):
I'm good? Thank you? What do you need some help
with today?

Speaker 18 (59:10):
So?

Speaker 11 (59:11):
I recently just had to all out with my best
friend for seven years.

Speaker 9 (59:17):
I ended up finding out that she.

Speaker 11 (59:19):
Was talking to my ex boyfriends trying to sleep with him.

Speaker 9 (59:23):
While we were on a break, and I cut her
off because of that. And now I kind of missed her,
and I don't know if I was petty.

Speaker 11 (59:31):
And overreacting, but I found aufter a third party that
it happened.

Speaker 5 (59:35):
So you apologized, But is it confirmed that she actually
tried to sleep with him?

Speaker 9 (59:40):
She apologized, yes, because she told me.

Speaker 6 (59:44):
So.

Speaker 9 (59:44):
I confronted her about it and she told me that,
oh yeah.

Speaker 11 (59:48):
I didn't think we were actually gonna do anything.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Listen, girls, some people do not need to be in
your life, and somebody that would try to sleep with
your ex behind your back is pretty much one of
those people.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
She is she with him right now?

Speaker 11 (01:00:03):
No, they're not together.

Speaker 9 (01:00:05):
But the thing is, she has another friend that has
done that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
To her before that said she has trauma.

Speaker 9 (01:00:11):
But she got mad at me because she said I
cut her off over a guy I was vogus for that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:17):
Would you have been open to sleeping to allow her
to sleep with him with you?

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Oh my god?

Speaker 11 (01:00:23):
Oh no, absolutely not. I don't like.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
You said that you miss her? Right?

Speaker 11 (01:00:30):
I do miss her, But I don't know if I
miss her because it's like I'm kind of lonely right now,
like I just graduated college.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Has she reached out to you and said she missed you.

Speaker 11 (01:00:42):
She did reach out to me, and she did apologize,
But I just feel like she's apologizing because she got caught.
Not that exact.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
Listen, if the dude ain't in the picture no more,
and she ain't talking to him and you miss it,
then go be friends with her. Just don't bring the dude.
Just don't bring more dudes around.

Speaker 6 (01:00:59):
Her unless you want to share your dude.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
That's not a real friendship. Here's my thing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
If that was a moment in weakness, though for her,
maybe that ain't.

Speaker 6 (01:01:12):
Who she is.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
If it was a moment in weakness, I shouldn't apologize.
I should have came to you instead of getting caught, and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
She said she came to apologize.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
No, what happened was one of her friends told that's
the only reason she even knew, and then when she
confronted her about it, she apologized. My whole thing is
that I have come to a point in my life
where I feel like I can't afford to be friends
with people who are not really my friends. I value
my friendships and if I can't trust you around my man,
if I don't believe that you have my best interests,

(01:01:42):
you know in your heart, it's too easy to not
do something like that, and this is a warning sign.
Now she does something like this again, then it's only
your own fault for allowing that to happen. I just
feel like I don't have time for somebody that I
can't leave my man around. If I can't leave my
man around you, we're not really friends.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
I feel you.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
Or you can get rid of the girl who actually
snitched on the other girl because she breaking up friendships.

Speaker 11 (01:02:08):
I don't know, because we all have a friend group,
and like everybody stops friends with the bread that I'm
talking about, So I was the last person to stop
being franks work, so everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Yeah she flood, Yeah, she floods, and that's gonna be
too much for you, Like, don't even do that. It's
been seven years of friendship. We can you know, if
I see you, nice to see you, keep it moving.
I don't think you need to allow that in your life.
And that's something that you can't be friends with somebody
you don't trust periods.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
So all jokes aside, life is long. Find new friends,
you know, we can all find new friends.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
At least you still have your friend group.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Yeah, you know you still in the group.

Speaker 6 (01:02:49):
You found a new man, right, No.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Because man on is having lunch.

Speaker 11 (01:02:54):
At I'm like, I'm talking, I'm getting ready to go along.

Speaker 5 (01:03:00):
I'm focused on a right, focused on yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Yes, get your degree in as sue her. All right, No, kiddy,
I don't know. All right, Well, thank you for calling.
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you couldn't get through, you can always ask us a
question on the voicemail and we'll answer that for you
and when we come back. Of course, you guys have
the last word. It's way up at Angela Yee.

Speaker 7 (01:03:26):
Take up the phone, tapping to get your voice heard.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
What the word is? Here's the last word on Way
Up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
What's up? It's way up with Angela. Ye. I'm Angela Yee.
Mano is here. Yeah, am I the guy Vanessa Mitchell
is here?

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Yes, I am.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
Thank you. You're here all weekend, by the way in
West Nayak, West.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
Nayak at Levity Live Comedy Club, New York City, surrounding areas.
Y'all need to get to a good comedy show this weekend.
Faness Mitchell your best bet. I'm in town BT comed
View SNL.

Speaker 5 (01:03:55):
All that's your show. You got openers and all that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
I got some openers, I got somebody recording it. I
might blast on you and put you on my social
media since that was trending.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
My day day Sunday two shows.

Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
Friday seven thirty nine thirty two shows Saturday seven o'clock
and now forty five and then one seven pm on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
All right, and it's not that far because I was
looking at it's like forty five minutes from where we
are right now in Manhattan. So that's a good listen
comedy shows are always a great date night.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
I love great date night.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
I love you have a did Carolinas, Yes, definitely back
in my essen now days they's to Caroline.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
It's sad that Caroline is gone.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Oh, I forgot about it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
It's a sad thing Caroline since I don't know how long. Yeah,
but it's also the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop and
you know, support Finesse. He's also a hip hop artist.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Yeah, you DJ.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
They used some of y'all might have heard of me.
They called me Lord Finess Lord back in the day.
And then I switched over to comedy. You know, I've
just met Lord Finess in LA for the first time
and we and we had a conversation about so you
Finess the comedian. I said, you the DJ man. You
know many people used to so yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
And I don't know if you want to say this,
but you we're also celebrating today.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Could celebrating last night.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
Oh last night. I just finished my script. It's an
urban comedy. It's super dope. I'm writing the next new
Love Jones with a twist. So I'm excited about that.
Fade too black happened last night in West Nayak in
that hotel room.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
I love that. Oh yeah, all right, and mano, you're
going to save these streets.

Speaker 5 (01:05:27):
It's hustle hard weekend. We're doing it big tonight. Starting
tonight we got a bowling party and then shout out
to Trap, Happy birthday to him. Then we got a
cook out tomorrow, and then we got some festivities at
Chelsea House.

Speaker 6 (01:05:40):
Okay, we got this hustle all week in second annual.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
I need to come through and bowl my one sixty two.

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Oh okay, so you're coming second after me? All right?

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Cool sprown my average, So that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
That a great average. It's not three hundred, but it's good.

Speaker 6 (01:05:56):
You're not doing three hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
All right, Well, you gots be safe. Happy fiftieth anniversary
of Hip hop Things again to fab By Freddy for
coming through. To doctor Brandon McNeil from the New York
Public Library, and as usual, you guys have the last word.

Speaker 10 (01:06:09):
Man, look like the wrong care man. Somebody to put
sugar in my tank? This du got my car? Man,
h I need just contact Infoe call me back.

Speaker 18 (01:06:19):
Hey, this is a Derek Got of Oklahoma and I'm
listening to yesterday's episode or whatever and y'all talking about
greatest albums of all time and just a regionally out
of Oklahoma. My brother had us listening to Bone Douz
in Harmony and y'all gotta say the Art of War
album that was a double disc album they had collaborations
with both Biggie and POC.

Speaker 10 (01:06:40):
Also shout out to my old lady Evanie.

Speaker 18 (01:06:43):
Okay she and our old lady, but that's my woman,
that's my baby.

Speaker 10 (01:06:46):
I love her.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
To see you later.

Speaker 6 (01:06:47):
Baby.

Speaker 11 (01:06:48):
Hey, it's Ebanie, and I want to sign a light
out on my mom. She just be breast cancer and
we are so blessed.

Speaker 13 (01:06:54):
And I also want to sign a light on my sister.

Speaker 11 (01:06:56):
She's always there, my sister Boo, I love you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Going way out with angela ye