Jasmine Brand Guest Hosts With Yee, Ray DeJon Stops By And More!

Jasmine Brand Guest Hosts With Angela Yee, Ray DeJon Explains The Importance Of His New Comedy Club In New York City, We Got The Yee Tea, And More!

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
I ain't got time way up in the morning, ain't
no where I'd rather be. You can be from any
barrows where you come and get the tea. You won't
real talk with real people. Know where you need to go,
talking real issue, real something? What else you need to know?
Shouting being all in the wirehouse. But she can talk
to trap. She ain't never left the communion is so
she no where it's said, I'm talking b K finer.

(00:27):
She gonna wrap into the grave and I want supporting
real So I'm gonna tune in the day. Well you
are now angel what I call her way up? Hey,
Jasmine Brand, Hey Angela, way up. It's the way for

(00:50):
angela y day four, Day four, Happy Thursday, Happy Thursday.
What am I gonna stop doing day countdowns after this week?
But Jasmine Brand is here with me. You may know
her from her web site that Jasmine Brands. Yes, I'm here,
I'm present. I'm super excited. Yo, I love this applies.
I know you got a chance to hear it ahead
of time. It's actually a full song that he did it. Yeah, yeah,

(01:14):
for the intro we had to chop it down, but
there is a full song, So shout out applies. I
appreciate him flies. It was a really crazy night last
night in the NBA. You know, I'm a Brooklyn Nets fans,
so we have a lot to talk about when it
comes to that. But yeah, no more Kyrie, no more
Kevin Durant. Now, I really want to know how I

(01:35):
know this effect that you ange. Um. You know what,
I'm not an individual player fan. I'm a fan of
Brooklyn and I'm a fan of the Brooklyn Nets. You know,
the organization and yeah, the organization, and we do have
great things happening with Cam Thomas and we have you know,
I feel like we're gonna build a good team. Okay,
I'm very very optimistic, very hopeful, and it's on brand

(01:58):
for you. Maybe it'll be easier to get to the
games and get floor seats. Now. Way to look at
the bright and the bright side of things, right, you know.
But this morning we are going to do a couple
of things. Ray Dejean is going to be joining us.
I have this segment called Mastery of Comedy. And I
actually did this segment based off of an idea that

(02:19):
I had in the midst in the height of the pandemic.
I filmed a Facebook series from Magic Lemonade. It was
called Mastery of Comedy. I'm a huge fan of comedy,
and so I paired up some more veteran comics with
some younger up and coming ones and so we had
Roywood Jr. Carlos Miller from eight five South Shows down
Now Rollings, and Ida Rodriguez and so we did that

(02:41):
on Facebook. But I'm bringing that here where we're actually
gonna highlight a comedian every week because I love comedy
so much. Comedy that makes sense, and so Ray de
Jean actually owns a comedy club in Brooklyn. Now he
just opened it, but he's very well known for being
one of the hosts on Video Music Box as well
as being a stand up comic that travels the world.
And so he is gonna be joining us today for
a Mastery of Comedy. But we're gonna shot to show

(03:04):
up the way that I love to start it and
the way that you love to start it, shining a
light on somebody who did something positive for you. Eight
hundred two nine to fifty one fifty is the number
you can call anytime, by the way, calling shout us
out throughout the show. But right now, where are gonna
shine a light on somebody who did something positive for you,
Call us up and shine a light at them. Eight
fifty on way up with Angela. Ye, Jasmine, I expect

(03:26):
you to shine a light today too, Okay, I will.
All right, We're gonna like the buck up. I'm I'm
turn your lights on, y'all, light sprinting love to those
who are doing greatness. Light. It's time to shine a
light on them. Yes, and this is the part of

(03:46):
the show where you get to call in and shine
a light on somebody who did something positive. Again, that number,
because I'm a jolist in your head, eight hundred two
nine to fifty one has an actual meaning. Oh tell us,
If you google it, you'll see what it did. Lay
all the deep dive during the next do a deep
dive and see what means. But it's a good way
to remember the number. Now, Jasmine, who would you like

(04:06):
to shine a light on so people can see how
it's Donne. I would love to shine a light on
my girl, Destiny. Women, we all know that our relationship
with the person that does our hair is super special
and super important. We'll be putting them through some things.
I put Destiny through some things yesterday. Definitely did my
hair for hours yesterday, hours and hours, yes, hours and hours.

(04:27):
She was super patient. Destiny is very professional and she's
super creative. I was getting annoyed that I would say, Jasmine,
that's enough. Destinitely, I want to shine a light on
Destiny for her patients and her skill. She's on Instagram
here we murder murder, shout out to Destiny. Did they
block her for that murder part of her name on it?
But yes, you were. She was very patient with you
and definitely Actiny. That's my hair too. By the way,
she does whenever I do corn Rows Braisen, but she

(04:49):
can just do actual hair. She can do anything. Yeah,
So we love that, and we love a hair person
that's always on time, always always in a good mood,
good conversation, a good key. Key, she's a great key yeah,
while we sit there and chat it up. And by
the way, not only did that happen, but she Jasmine
also almost burned down bathroom yesterday. She lit a candle

(05:09):
right underneath the shelf and I came in and I
was like, why is the whole shelf black? Listen, And
I'm gonna tell y'all it looks awful. I'm not I'm
not gonna even hold you, but it looks Oh my god,
j what's up? J J. Come and say hi, Come
and say hi. Oh my gosh, hold on, ray j An.

(05:31):
This is a breakfast club co host in here today,
everybody here. And then I see y'all got to deal
with weeks and I don't know. The herds are bows
minor beats. No, no, we would. I'm saying I'm bringing
back then, just for yall to wear every day. Just
that's that's one back. We were just talking about headphones

(05:53):
way up in Angela. We need some Raycon. I had
my kind airbus. I have my Recon speaker, the clear one. Yeah,
I got the new product I need. I need the
product that's on every day. I need to make you
all the ones that you're wearing every day. Everything. We're
gonna check out the quality of these. We need to
test them first. Yeah, I mean it's just your voice.

(06:13):
And then we needed also the marijuana to go with it. Okay,
so you want the ray J's Yeah, smoke paper like
the natural papers. Yeah, blunts, you know you know it's
coming on. We look like we smoke blunts joints. Okay, listen,
we gotta throw these cars. Shine a light on them.

(06:34):
Fifty one fifty Good morning. Who's this? Hey? My name
is k J, Hey, k J. Who you want to
shine a light on. I wanted to shine the light
on my three kids and my girlfriend because they keep
me going and they just motivate me and make sure
I gotta do what I do every day. Shout out
their names. Then my seventh year old, my daughter Kennedy

(06:55):
for year old. I just had another baby girl named Leilanie.
She's as with my friends Taylor and I'm from Petre, Michigan. Alright.
You love going home every day, don't you? It's motivating.
I love it. I love it when I get all
I love my kids, and don't forget Valentine's Day is
coming up? Okay, yes, ma'am. And now I got something
actually playing for my girlfriend and my daughter. All right,

(07:18):
I love to see it. Shine a light on him.
Good morning? Is this? This is Luke to the barber
from Savannah, Georgian. Lead you to barber? What's good? Who
do you want to shine a light on? Man? I
want to shine the light on Salon Lock and Style.
That's where I do head. I'm a Master Barbara were
retwisting them. The ladies just phenomenal. Okay, all right, so

(07:39):
you're shining a light on the barber shop. I'm shanding
the light on the Yeah, I'm standing the light on
the barbershop. Actually the salon. It's a dred salon. But
I'm the only bab in there with some beautiful women. Oh,
I know you'd be having a good time. Listen. I
got one in here. Her name is Nikki salonl She
got some long leaglau dred. We got to tow too.

(08:00):
She is bad. She taking putting them here and all
the type of color we've got, ma chica redd, red, big,
thick we got wanted creepy now, But I just want
to shine the light on them. You know, they're beautiful.
They take care of me and it's all love. And
let me ask you this, how is it when the

(08:20):
guys come in to get their their shape ups, many thirsty.
They'd be like, oh who that is? I'd be like, man,
just get your hair cut, man, please? Man? Okay, all right, well,
thank you for calling it and shining light on the
beautiful women in the salon. That was a little bit creepy.
I'm not gonna lie. It was, and so shout out

(08:41):
to Ray J for walking through. But we do have
yet coming up next, and we are going to talk about,
of course, these trades that happened yesterday in the NBA
and the top ten greatest rappers of all time. On
Angela eat with my girl, Jasmine Brand. Angela is are you?
They say? It's truth in the room from industry shade

(09:04):
to all the gossips. All right, it is time for
that yet. I'm Angela, ye on, way up with Angela
and Jasmine Brand is here with me. What's up girl?
And you all about this entertainment stuff. This is very exciting.
Jasmine just sends me stuff NonStop for no reason, and
you send me stuff to alright, And so first off,

(09:27):
let's talk about Kevin Durant. Y'all know I'm a big
Brooklyn Nets fan. I'm actually an ambassador for the Brooklyn
Nets full disclosure. And so Kevin Durant is leaving, He's
going to the Phoenix Suns. He has been traded. And
here's what Kyrie Irving had to say. Um, you know,
Kyrie left to go to Dallas, and actually I was
watching him play last night. But here is what he
had to say about Kevin Durant getting traded. I'm just

(09:49):
praying for his happiness. We had a lot of conversations
throughout the year of you know what our futures were
gonna look like. There was still a lovel on uncertainty,
but we just cared about seeing each other be places
at we can thrive. I just I'm glad he got
out of there. Okay, well, there you have it, and
Russell Westberg got traded to by the Way to the
Utah Jazz and they acquired D'Angelo Russell and a three team,

(10:14):
eight player trade. So a lot going on in basketball,
but the big news was obviously k d. Everybody kept
saying that he was you know, they were watching to
see if he was gonna leave, if what was gonna happen,
because he's been wanting to get traded. So did you
think he was gonna stay another year? No, okay, if
you asked me, I did not think so. But you
never know what could happen, because you know, he was

(10:34):
trying to get traded before and then he decided to stay.
And but now that Kyrie left, it looked like that
wasn't gonna happen. All right. Billboard has named Billboard and
Vibe have named the top ten greatest rappers of all time.
They've been rolling out their list of the top fifty
greatest rappers and now they have revealed that list um
the top ten. So one woman made the list, Nicki

(10:58):
Minaj at number ten. At number ten, I knew she
had to be in the top ten to put it higher.
I would have, yeah, I would have. I would have two.
Number nine was Snoop Dogg. Number eight is Drake. You
know Drake was gonna be on that list too. Number
seven little Wayne, so they put Wayne above Drake. Okay,
Number six the notorious b I G. Number five Marshall

(11:22):
Mathers Slim Shady, Number four Tupacs Corps. Number three is NAS.
Number two is Kendrick Lamar, and number one was jay Z.
I have an issue with number two with Ken. Yeah,
I don't think he should be number two because I
think he should be a little further down. But why
tell us why? Well, I'm just I just don't think

(11:42):
his impact is Look where he looks. He's numbered He's
under jay Z. I don't I think Drake should be
up there a little further either gets because of the
amount of content or do you think it's just your
I mean, first of all, these are all always opinion
opinion based, but I also feel like Kendrick puts out
really great quality content, so it's not like he's he

(12:04):
drops a lot, but it's very impactful when he does.
It's not enough to me though, for him to be
a number two. He's right under jay Z, He's above Na,
he's above Naz, he's above Biggie, he's above Drake. We're
talking about content. How do you feel about this list?
And um, I think that when it comes to Kendrick Lamar,

(12:27):
I feel like he's a different type of artists. He's
I think a lot of times people are focused on
artists dropping content NonStop, but the truth is that if
you can put out great quality and that's how it
used to be, I feel like and now it feels
like people are always like because you can constantly have
access to put music out, So a lot of artists
do that, but Kendrick doesn't, So I also feel like

(12:47):
it's unique in that aspect. And then I also feel
like he's very creative with his concepts and ideas, so
I can understand why he would be really high. But
I can also understand your argument of you may feel
like he doesn't have enough catalog. My question is how
do you feel about the list? Not Kim, how do
you feel about this list? I want to put Nicki
Minaj up higher definitely. I feel like in the conversation
of top the greatest rappers of all time is always

(13:10):
jay z is always up there. I feel like everybody
on here are the are the people that everyone always puts.
I will say I love Snoop Dogg. I don't feel
like they always put him in the top ten. Okay, okay,
you know, so do you think one other woman should
have been up in here? In this conversation? You think
this is definitely Nicki Manah should have been here. Who
do you feel like Little Kim? Um? Okay, it's gonna

(13:35):
put Little Kim in the in the time. I don't know.
I feel like it's a discussion. Let me see what
Little Kim is on this list, because she's on here.
Yeah she's uh. I mean Missy Elliott was number nineteen
on the list. Little Kim's thirty one. Okay, I mean
she's definitely in the top fifty. So I will say
Lauren Hill is number thirty, you know, and then listen
these always yeah, always subjective. Okay, alright, alright, well there

(13:58):
you have it. When we come back, we are gonna
do about last night, and that's the part of the
show where we talk about things that we did last
night and we have a conversation about it and you guys,
uh like, we talked about the Joe Biden and we
talked about his State of the Union address. So about
last night on Way Up with Angela ge when we
come back, angel Desinely, I didn't tip you enough. I

(14:21):
gotta send some more money because here's the other thing, right,
if you're buying here. So I supplied the hair. Okay,
so you supply the hair because sometimes when you get
your hair done, they buy the hair for you and
then they add that in the price. She but she
did bring her own stuff. She have, She added some stuff,
She added some hair, her own hair too. She died
like she did a whole bunch of stuff. She did.
She she did there for hours. So Destinely, I'll use

(14:43):
some money. So okay, so we're saying for hair and nails, Yeah, nails, okay,
tip for that, Okay, Okay, what about I came in
from Laguardi yesterday. Uber, what am I supposed to tip?
My Uber? I do tip on, but I also know
that they're very dependent on those tips because they don't

(15:03):
get paid like they should and gas is high, and
especially if you have a very pleasant experience, you know,
if they have candies in the car, if they let
you use the charge you you know, if they have
a little water, some of them go above and beyond. Yeah,
and so I do feel like that is a service
that they don't get paid the way that they should.
So well, I think that's and I think you could

(15:25):
do eighteen some people do. And then I'm like, okay,
what about food? Is there anything that you do not
tip on? Um? Let me see. It might be something
that's like a recurring thing, like if you have something
that you do every single day, maybe every day. You're
not like, okay, what about food delivery? Food delivery? Now,
I'm a this is what I told you about food delivery,

(15:47):
and I disagree. Go ahead, Okay. So the other day
I ordered from this very expensive restaurant because I felt
like treating myself. I love that restaurant. Yeah, and so
it's Mediterranean food and the bill was honestly, like ninety
dollars now to me, and then the restaurant's only a
couple of blocks away. So to me, I was like,
I don't know if I'm a on this. So I

(16:07):
just gave ten dollars because it was one one meal.
But if you tip in twenty on everything else, why
are they getting the short end of the stick? Well,
because sometimes I also might order from a Chick fil
A and the bill might be twenty dollars. I'm not
gonna only give you four dollars, okay, So for that
delivery person, they still will get ten dollars. So in general,

(16:29):
like I think for food delivery, I always give unless
they're coming from really far away, or it's raining or
something like that, or I get a whole lot of
stuff because I'm feeding a bunch of people. Then in
general I just give ten dollars. And then when you
are staying at a hotel and the people that clean
your room, how do you determine what you're going to
leave them? I think you just um, it depends on

(16:51):
how many days you say to the problem I have
with leaving a tip for people who clean your room
if you're there for more than one day. You don't
know who's getting it. Do they split it? I don't
know how that works. So I do every every day.
I leave a tip every day. I don't wait to know.
Some people wait till the end, but I do every
day because I feel like whoever started me on Monday,
maybe by Thursday they're not here anymore. Okay, it's just tough, man.
We gotta tip for everything. It's expensive, yeah, especially don't

(17:13):
go out the country and go stay at a resort.
You gotta tip everybody. You gotta tip the people who
take your bags right now, when you know, when you
pull up to a hotel and then they come and
they grab your bags and you're like, man, I guess
I gotta tip them now. I know we're always trying
to make sure we have enough cash when we travel.
And then it's like, I don't know. Now you can
sell people like do you have a zell or a
cash apt that I can send you a tip? Yeah,
it's it's a whole house is expensive, well, to to

(17:37):
live is expensive. To leave the house and do anything
is expensive. But then you feel bad if you don't
have it, Like it's the worst when you don't have
cash on you and you're like, I wanted to give
you something, but you know, so, I just want to
see what you guys think when it comes to tipping.
We need some of this tipping etiquette because there's some
people don't leave tips at hotels. I don't always leave

(17:57):
a tip at the hotel. Yeah, I do. So every
single time you stay at the hotel, you leave it
for the cleaning, for the cleaning people. Every single time
I leave something on my bed everything at a minimum,
I leave like ten dollars every day I leave something
on that because I feel like that's a lot of work, y'll,
and I feel like people don't leave it, and that's
that's just back. You know it's crazy too. I clean
my room all the time at hotel. You clean your

(18:18):
house before your house. I do, alright, a number. I
try to make sure they don't have too much work
to do. Call this up and let us know what
you think about all of this tipping when it comes
to where you tip, where you don't tip, and how
much are you supposed to leave. It's way up with Angela.
Eat with my guest, Jasmine Brand. Angel is way up, alright,

(18:39):
It's way up with Angela. Ye, we were doing about
last night, and it turned into a whole thing debate. Yes,
Jasmine Brand is here with me. She's my friend in
real life, and um, you know she's a big tipper apparently,
well except when it comes to the hair. Apparently. Yeah,
I'm falling short. You're a big tipper, except when it
comes to food delivery. You need to do better. Well, No,
I actually overtipped. Sometimes it just depends the more you spend,

(19:00):
the less you tip. So now I just try to
tip the same across the board so that you're still
getting you know, paid, but you should get paid, but
you're not getting paid what you get paid if you're
not doing want to build. That's a hundred dollars for
the food delivery person. But however, if I'm only paying
twenty dollars for some food, you're actually getting way more.
Let's talk about Let's talk about it, because you're actually
getting about tip in that case. So it really does

(19:24):
depend because I don't want to give and be cheap
in some certain instances. But we're gonna see what two
guys have to say about this is the number? What
type of tips are you leaving? Hello? Who's this? Hi?
My name Issa, My Rissa, let's hear your thoughts. Okay.
So I'm an uber driver, Okay, thank you for your service.

(19:46):
We live off tips, especially the people that don't have
lights on. When you come to their house, you can't
see their house number. So we live off tips. People.
You need to tip up. What did I say, jas,
Because I say, y'all don't make enough? Okay, what's the
what percentage is appropriate? I'm gonna say yeah, okay, and

(20:10):
you know what else too? I was gonna say, but
you know how, sometimes you could switch, like the where
your destination is. They don't get extra money from that,
Like you know how, it's gonna be a whole lot
more money, and you're like, dang, they don't get more
for that. Yeah. A lot of them switch, especially all
of them that want us to come to the tenth
floor of their apartment basically bring it to their bedroom.

(20:31):
Food food delivery. Yes, yes, oh Angel, Look she said,
I told you, yeah, But what if this bill is
really cheap and it's only I'm not gonna give you only? Okay, Well,
you need to always give at least is the is
what I'm hearing. Okay, all right, we are talking about tipping.

(20:53):
Who's this. Hey a, you sound like you'd be bawling. Girl,
Who are you tipping? I'm not step in the house anymore.
Why if you notice episodes COVID they might bring your
cows and yours. That's not their fault. That's the hotel's rules.

(21:17):
So they should you feel like they shouldn't get anything. Now,
wait the rulers and not change your sheets. Well they
were doing that. Once you move that tag off that door.
You have to some hotels you have to request if
you want every day for them to service your room.
So she's saying like it used to be where they
would come in every day and swap you out with
new towels and sheets. Yeah, okay, now they don't. If

(21:39):
you don't need them to service your room, then you
shouldn't tip. Yeah, because actually I will, Like I said,
I clean my room myself all the time. But sometimes
I'm like, I'm okay, I don't need it today. But regardless,
when you leave, they're going to have to clean your room. Okay,
do you do you okay? He's just like no doing, Okay,
good morning. We're talking about tipping. Who is this done? Done?

(22:01):
I know now your name is done. You gotta be
a don about this. Yeah, I usually for everything, for everything.
I would actually yet in August and actially well loved it.
What about the barber? You tip? Exactly what I was
going to ask, even Yeah, I mean depend on the service.
Oh no, no you have? Do you have said everything? Yeah?

(22:23):
So if you're getting your beer done or whatever lined
up or something, do you do you tip for that? Oh? Yeah? Yeah?
I always as well. So when you said it depends
what what? What depends? I mean depends on how the services? Okay,
so the service isn't good, you know, and that's true.
If the service is not good, you don't automatically have
to leave a tip. No, I don't. I don't automatically tip.
But sometimes sometimes I might feel a little I might

(22:45):
feel little bad, and I might need like maybe five dollars, right, okay,
And I agree with that because what if you have
like a you know, a server that's terrible, I still
tip anyways, disrespectful, not even when service isn't good. I
tip anyway because I feel like they've they think that
black people don't tip, so I'll just go ahead and
tip anyway. I think you don't think you're black? So wait,

(23:07):
so you were still tip. First. I've done it multiple times.
Even if I had issue with somebody, I'll still tip
because I feel like they think we don't tip. So
I'm trying to fight the stigma by just taking the
psychology they did on your works. All right, we're talking
about tipping. Who is this? Name is Michael? Hi Michael?
How are you, ladies? Good? How are you? What are
your thoughts on tipping? I was wondering, how do you

(23:30):
feel about being asked for a tip? Like, give us
an example? How do you ask? Like? I was just
an Atlantic city and they forgot my bag and the
guy was like, a chip will be appreciated. So I
took outs where I had luc and I gave it
to him. But I felt a little uncomfortable. Well, okay,
ship will be appreciated. Did he deserve it? Um? No

(23:53):
act for a tip? I feel disrespectful. But it worked.
Where you go, you're going to get a tip? Oh okay,
you're gonna tip him anyway? You probably wouldn have tipp
them twenty five though, No, that's it worked. But you
know what, sometimes it's a little nudge. He said it
would be appreciated. He didn't say it was you know,
where's my tip? He said, A tip of be appreciate it, right,

(24:15):
But I feel, you know, in this job, you know
you're you're there and you know what they're going to
give you a tip. Everyone doesn't tip, though. Yeah, that's
a fact. You'd be surprised. I mean, so obviously you're
gonna okay like a true glamp gambler. Alright, Well, there
you have it. It seems like across the board it
feels like it's tacky to ask for a tip. It

(24:35):
feels like you need to be tipping more with for
your food delivery service. Angela, I do. Sometimes I tip
more than twenty percent. Sometimes you don't because I was
too bad. I don't know if I want to do.
It's Black History Month. Do better, ma'am. You didn't tip hair,
We've murdered and now you got to send one. Now
you do better. I will do, ma'am. All right, when

(24:56):
we come back, we have yet and we are going
to talk about offset and J Prince. I hate that
we have to detail this back and forth, but we're
gonna let you know what's going on on way up
with Angela. Ye, Angela, ye, we are, it says truth
in the room. From industry shade to all the gossip

(25:17):
out Angela's spell. All right, it is way up with Angela. Ye,
and we're about to do yet. That Jasmine brand is
here with me. I am here. I love this segment.
I know you do, because you have an entertainment site.
Do the Jasmine brand, Jasmine brand. Alright, so let's start
off with this whole J Prince versus Offset situation. Now,

(25:39):
we did start off talking about this previously where J
Prince had some things to say about Offset when he
was a million dollars worth of game. Here's what he
said originally, Off said, dude, you know, be throwing rocks
and high in the right. I don't like them kind
of individuals, you know. And the truth of the maut
is you wouldn't really right there with take Off when

(26:01):
he was alive, you know what I mean. So for
you to be taking these positions that you're taking, you
know what I mean? And that I got people everywhere
I saw, I hear all kinds of things. I'm gonna
just say this to you. Don't never put me in
no position. Well, you know, I have to defend myself
all right now. After that, Most responded to Jay Prince's

(26:24):
interview and he posted this, I want y'all speak on
me and take relationship. You're trying to clear your faith
this show fifth interview. You know I'm did by my brother.
You ain't think about it, Mama. You didn't think about
the family when you said nothing. I ain't. Nobody said
nothing but you. And if you heard something from me,
I'm gonna tell you it's it's gonna come from me.

(26:45):
Call my phone. Y'all going off and he says, She says,
then y'all suppled to be. This is who who y'allpled
to be, and y'all interviews and it out on an
interview about I said, call my phone home now. I
saw a lot of people on social media taking sides
in the situation of Offset versus J Prince. Some people
felt like J. Prince was basically picking on him, picking

(27:07):
on Offset and why didn't you call him? Well? J
Prince then posted another message there's more and wrote in
the captain a message to the man that's off. To
those of you that still live on principles over emotions
that now and respect me. It's all good. I don't
care about the media. I don't know if I can
say this word. They eat ish for a living. We
live on different planets and breathe different air, if you
know what I mean. I only display loyalty and friendship

(27:29):
to my brothers and sisters until they show me their unworthy.
Never been a bully or lived a life where I
abused my power on the week and here's what he
had to say in that post that he captioned this
clown outset suffering from being a fake mother disease. He
want to play victim now, but he's a volunteer. When
he spoke pricks about me and my family name and

(27:50):
the mouth about what he's gonna do. Why you didn't
call me to talk because the twists you want to
use Now you want to fake in front of a camera,
trying to have her takeoff mother when I was showing
nothing but respect for her and family. She boy, are
you asking like you're part of a family that don't
really with you because you're a snake now. You don't

(28:12):
know me from a can of pain. Let me see
if I can refresh your memory. Remember we talked when
you got your ass whoop in Atlanta. You forgot and
then j Prince went on too details several different situations
where he says that he got a call from Offset
needing his assistance. Well, Cardie B went on social media
and to never tell him the show receipts. Only people

(28:34):
that was there was whack and big you. Why would
he call you for anything involved in cripts? Whole bunch
of fairy tales. And then Offset says Street and we're
turn cop. Never needed you for no smoke, you the
police or mouth for no proof, just fairy tales. Let
this be the last time we speak on this. Wow,
I feel like I'm on the group text and maybe
I shouldn't be. Yeah, So I know it's a lot

(28:56):
of negativity around all of this, but this is what's
going on. And I do really hope though that maybe
they do need to just get on the phone. Yeah,
it needs to be some sort of sit down and talk.
But you know, somebody's life was lost, take off a
really big deal, and now it's causing all of this
fallout from it, and I think that's a shame. We'd
rather see people now at this point in time, say,
let's not even argue about small things. Is bigger things

(29:19):
on the line here and quality control. Since we're talking
about Offset and all of this has been acquired for
a reported three hundred million dollars. That's a lot of money.
And that's by Scooter Bronze Company Hive America. So it's
a division of the South Korean entertainment firm which dominates

(29:40):
the K pop world. And so that's Coach K and
P from Quality Control that Actually, they're all very enthusiastic
about it. Coach K said, P and I are ecstatic
about this partnership with Scooter and Hive and are confident
they can get us to our global ambitions we've had
in our sculptins the beginning of our company as nothing
means more than our artists impacting worldwide. Wow, congratulations to them. Now,

(30:04):
Quality Control, you know me goes little baby, little YACHTI
City Girls, I swear Bezo bank Road, Freddie Lakia gloss
Up amongst other people. So that is definitely gonna be
I mean a nice situation, a nice bag. It sounds
like a lot. Yeah, that's a three million, that's alright.

(30:24):
And Michael Irving has been pulled from the NFL network
Super Bowl coverage and this is following report of misconduct
toward a woman in the hotel lobby. Now Michael Irvin
is staying at a hotel in Glendale, Arizona, that's near
this weekend Super Bowl. He told the Dallas Morning News
the encounter took place in the hotel lobby he returned

(30:44):
after a night out on the town. He said his
interaction with the women lasted only forty five seconds, and
then they shook hands and went their separate ways. He said, honestly,
I'm a bit baffled with it all. This all happened
in a forty five second conversation in the lobby. When
I got back after going out, I came into the
lobby and I talked to somebody. I talked to this girl.
I don't know her, and I talked to her for
about forty five seconds. We shook hands and I left.

(31:06):
That's all I know. And he did admit that he
was drinking, so he doesn't recall the conversation, but he
says he's totally perplexed about what happened and what law
did he break. He said, it was nothing physical. There
was definitely nothing physical. What what what did he say
to this lady? Allegedly? I have no idea, but I'm
sure at some point we're going to find out, but um,

(31:26):
now he's been relieved of his duties covering the super
Bowl NFL. Yeah, so it has to be something significantly Yeah,
so not sure, but super Bowl is this weekend and
we'll be following up at this story to see if
we can figure out what went down. Right, But that
is your yet. Thank you Jasmine Brand, Thank you Angela. Ye.

(31:49):
I know that we have to do such negative stories.
It's it's I mean, but we do positive stories and
we do some other things we're gonna talk about soon,
so right and coming up next, Um, I do want
to talk about out cannabis. Now, there was a company,
there is a company Medmen that was a huge chain
of cannabis stores. They were calling this the Apple Store

(32:09):
of weed, and things have gone terribly left. We're gonna
tell you all about it on way up with Angela
when we come back. Thank you Jasmine Brand, Angela. And
to put a dentt. And also I'm reading that they
have not paid their rent since why not on their lease?

(32:30):
I guess it's looking like they have too much debt
to be able to do that. So that's just one
of the cannabis companies that is facing a reckoning as
this industry bubble of marijuana businesses is deflating because of
excessive debt, falling marijuana prices, competition because there's a lot
of stores that sell cannabis that might be illegal, that

(32:51):
people now have these options that they can go to,
and high taxes. That's another thing. They said that the
taxes on that business is one of the reasons that
a lot of these company these are failing in cannabis
because people are not paying the taxes and the taxes
are ridiculously high. So I'll stay. Living in l A
for eight years, there was a marijuana cannabis store on

(33:12):
every corner, in every corner, and I remember I remember
hearing about mad Men and when I first moved in,
I was kind of confused, what what is this, what
do they do or whatever? And it's a lot of
competition in l A and play obviously across the country now.
But I remember thinking like, wow, imagine you're going to
get audited too, for sure if you have a cannabis business.
And then the other problem is that it's not regulated
like that, so the rules are always changing. And so

(33:34):
I know in New York gets pretty strict right now
as far as what you can do, but everybody was
trying to get in on it. Everybody people who had
nothing to do and never don't even smoke. But like,
you want me get in this business. Remember when everyone
wanted to be a realtor. Yeah, now everybody wanted to
be a Yeah. So mad Men is based near l A.
They operate twenty three stores. And that's another problem too,
is growing your business too fast. And then a lot
of times people feel like, oh, I'm going to get

(33:56):
a whole bunch of investors to invest in my company
and then it's going to be valued at x y
z because at one point, like I said, they were
valued at one point seven billion dollars. That's yeah, and
now they have only fifteen points. Listen, their shares rose
to over eight dollars. But today you know how much
it is? Four cents? Oh no, yeah, I mean think

(34:16):
about that as a drop as far as the value
of a company. Yeah. So a lot of businesses though
they said that UM and other companies that do cannabis,
they've suffered Similarly, there's other stocks of different cannabis producers.
UM till Ray Brands, that's a cannabis producer that's among
the industry's largest companies is down more than from its

(34:37):
all time high, and Canopy Growth, another major player, is
also down a similar amount. Now I remember earlier on
because you know, I have family members who are very yes,
uh do really well. One thing I will say, if
you can actually not have the overhead of having a dispensary,
plus the taxes and the headaches that come with that
and having to deal with security, and if you have

(34:57):
one of those dispensaries, making sure that you're employees don't steal,
because that's also something that could happen. Um being somebody
that can actually help as far as supplying, that's probably
a better business be a grower. I heard that it
was really hard for people, for black and brown people
to break into this industry. It is because it's expensive
to break into and as you can see, even trying

(35:19):
to raise money, and it's a little bit of a
risky business. So you know, that's just one of the
things that I wanted to talk about because I saw
this story going viral, so we wanted to talk about
kind of break it down because people, like a lot
of people think that this is a thriving business and
everyone should get into it, and their stories like this
that people need to be aware of. You know what
they said, Um, half of all new cannabis businesses won't

(35:41):
make it to the five year mark and seven out
of ten will fail within ten years. I feel like
that's a typical standard for business. Yeah it is. But
people think that cannabis was to get rich quick business
because then you saw some businesses thriving, right because some
people do really well, Like you know, look at Burner,
he does amazing and cookies and all of that. But
you know, they've been around for quite some time and

(36:01):
they do a great job marketing and they have their
products and other places too. So you know, just being
able to market your business also not grow too quickly,
also get excellent partnerships. All of those things I feel
like a really important when it comes to doing that business.
But with this mad Men's story going viral, I just
wanted to shed some light on that all right now,
when we come back, we love to do stories that

(36:22):
are under the radar, stories that we feel like you
should know about but maybe necessary aren't necessarily uh, those
headline news stories. And I want to talk about this
pill that can treat postpartum depression. Now, Jasmine, you recently
had a little cute baby, and I definitely experienced postpartum.
And do you feel like now everything is I don't

(36:45):
know if everything is. My daughter is a year and
some change, I don't know if everything is. You know,
I feel like I'm still kind of adjusting. It's not
as bad as it was, though. Some people have postpartum
depression is don't even know it, like they just don't
know what's wrong. When I was talking to you, I
remember you say, well, maybe it's maybe you're still going
through post part remember saying that to me. Yeah, yeah,
So it's just something to think about. But imagine if

(37:06):
there was a pill that could treat postpartum depression, and
this could be a game changer for some people. The
f d A is working to help develop this, and
we'll give you some more information on that when we
come back on Way Up with angela Ye featuring my
girl Jasmine Brand. Angela Ye is way up. Yes, It's
Way Up with Angela Yee featuring Jasmine Brand right here, Hey,

(37:29):
you can also check out her that Jazzmine brand dot
com entertainment sites. And let's talk about Michael B. Jordan's
now He says he was on the CBS Mornings on Wednesday,
and he addressed a lot of different things. He was
also asked by Gil King about his breakup with Lorie Harvey.
Here's what he had to say. I was lucky enough

(37:51):
to have a lot of work. I'm a firm believers
what's what's for you is for you, and coming out
of that situation, um not to give it, you know,
any energy and kind of move move from honest, it
was an experience for me to grow, you know, and learn.
I'm in my light right now. This is my Jordan year.
I mean, you know this, this is this is my year.
There's so much going on, so many blessing, so many

(38:11):
great things. This is at a point in my career
where there's not a lot of people telling me no,
and everything's wide open and let's not forget. He is
making his directorial debut with Create three. That's a big one,
that is very big. That teaser looks really good. Yeah.
I love the Creed movies. As a matter of fact,
one time I was on a flight with DJ Mby
and he was watching Creed for the first time and

(38:32):
he was crying. Dj V was crying. He's crying on
a flight and he was watching Creed. Yeah, so I
can imagine I know a man be all over Creed
three al right now. Halle Billy's sister sky Is apologized
after calling out her boyfriend d d G. Hally's boyfriend,
so people thought that the two of them had broken up.
He tweeted, at all these girls are saying. He also

(38:54):
scrubbed Hally's pictures from off of his social media page,
and so she called him out and says, you're not
gonna do her the way you do everybody else. But
apparently she spoke with Halle and it was nothing. She said,
my bad, y'all. I spoke to sist and ain't nothing
going on. L O L. Let me go back to
drinking my water and minding the business that pays me.
Was like, can you please stop? Yes, it's fine, I

(39:15):
know you love me, but making this too much? Actually,
d d G made it too much by tweeting that
out in Okay, but he also knows what he's doing.
He knows what he's doing all right now. Britney spears
she's been having some struggles with her mental health and
substance abuse, and now people close to her have planned
an intervention. According to TMZ. One source told TMZ, I'm

(39:40):
afraid she's gonna die. My gosh, that's supposedly one of
her close friends. Where to talk to TMZ and be yeah,
what is it? But anyway, multiple sources would direct knowledge
say that people around her have become alarmed by her erratic,
volatile behavior. They said she's taking meds that hype her
up and has been flying off the handle. One source
says at her manager rented a house in the l

(40:02):
A area for several months. The plan was to take
her there to the house without her knowing, and then
her husband and interventionists and doctors would be present to
try to convince her to get the help that she needs. Um.
But the plan was for this to go down on Tuesday,
and somehow she became aware of a plan and it
all changed and the intervention idea got scrapped. Yeah, so

(40:24):
they said that um, Brittany agreed to meet with the doctor.
We don't know what type of doctor. And she met
with the doctor yesterday and it went well. Have you oh,
that's good, that's good news. Have you noticed her social
media posts are always a little uh, she's been through
a lot. Yeah, I know, and you can it's a lot.
It's there some of some of them are a little alarming.
I'm not gonna lie. And if that was your friend,

(40:46):
you would want to help. I wouldn't be calling t
m Z. Is that helpful? All right? All now, floor
Rider is saying that he plans to pursue philanthropy with
his settlement that he got from the energy drink Celsius.
And so, you know, you got an eighty two million
dollar settlement. I mean that's he got a serious, amazing
amount of money. And so here's what he had to

(41:07):
say about what his plans are or more happy about
the philanthropic things that I could do, Like you know,
I have my big drinks and kids charity beautiful, I
have a utball league. I have over ten thousand kids.
You know, this is this thing where I'm just thinking
about the generational wealth and how I can continue to have,
you know, open doors for other people and just invested
in the kids. I mean, when you invest in the future,

(41:28):
you can't even imagine what the future would be like
two million dollars. I feel like he was already well
off financially and then he got this eighty two million dollars.
What do you think he had to pay taxes on
that half at least, and then you also probably got
to pay a lawyer on top of that. But whatever,
not a problem, all right, And I do want to

(41:50):
give a shoutout. I know I did this yesterday at
the end of the show when the news broke, but
we got to do it proper in our e T
and a Urry notting into Lewis congrat delations to them.
They have announced that they are expecting their first child together,
and she shared the news with people. She said, my
daughter is especially happy to be getting a younger sibling,
so I'm excited to share this joy as a family.

(42:11):
So she already has her five year old daughter with
her ex, and now you know. She also talked about
how she broke the news to two. She recalled still
being on a high from their wedding in April, and
everything natural fell into place after their wedding to have
a family. She said it felt like the perfect way
to start a new chapter with my husby. I wrapped
my two pregnancy tests in pretty tissue paper and put
it in a cute little gift bag and told him

(42:33):
I had a related birthday gift for him, not just
she's you're good friends with Nator, Yes, I love NATORI.
Are you gonna give us the exclusive? And if she's
having a boy or girl right now? No, if you're
good friends with somebody, would you want to do that?
But NATORI did say once she announced it in people
that she's gonna come up here. Okay, yeah, we need
because she has going on too, because you know she's

(42:53):
filming and everything, so she's booked and expecting. I love it,
and that is your yeat. Now. You know, it is
Black History Month and so all months, and I feel
like we should do this, not stuff anyway. We're highlighting
different amazing people for Black History Months. So when we
come back, we'll talk about black owned, black owned, black owned,
because we love that A way up with angela Ye

(43:15):
featuring that Jasmine Brand. Yes, it is way up with
angela Ye. And it's Black History Months, so we want
to honor some incredible, amazing human beings. Jasmine Brand is
here with me. Yes, I'm here. So one company that
I want to talk about is book Dog Sports now

(43:37):
a rounded booker and his fourteen year old son, Kendall,
and I love when people do stuff with their kids
because that really helps kids become entrepreneurs at an early
age and set that mindset. But they're making history. They're
the founders of Bookdog Sports. It's the first ever black
owned athletic supply company. Have you ever thought about this,
because you know, he's been supporting his son a team

(43:57):
practices and games, and he noticed all of the equipment
was developed by four companies and none of them were
black owned. Do you play sports, Jasmine, No, not really?
Dar Okay, alright, so he said, Ronde said've been thinking
about sports. It's likely the several black stars across all sports, basketball, football, tennis,
or soccer come to mind easily. Black people have contributed

(44:19):
much to sports, attracting fans and diverse audiences, redefining the game,
and helping shape its culture, yet so few are found
behind the ball, particularly when looking at industries like sports equipment. Okay, yeah,
So I like that because it's you going somewhere seeing
something and then one day, I'm sure it's sparked in
his head, like yeah, and it's really an untapped market

(44:41):
in terms of black and brown people. Well, it was
there the first ones to ever do this, So I
think that's amazing. So their first product is called the
h W one on one. It's a basketball made with
premium micro fiber composite leather that offers amazing grip and
durability to last off season and beyond. Kudos to them
and his son is fort taking you, ma, and if
you were doing something like this at fourteen, where you
would be in terms of your business? Yeah, I wish. Now.

(45:06):
The other day when Godfrey was there, we also talked
about Harvard University having their first ever black women as
the president, Claudine Gay. That's the first time that's ever happened. Right. Well,
now at Mount Holyoke College, they actually just elected a
black woman to be the president there for the first
time ever. So shout out to Danielle ran Holly. She's

(45:26):
a noted legal educator and social justice scholar. She's the
twentieth president of Mount Holio College. The board did unanimously
elector following a thorough and inclusive search process, and now
she's the first black woman and the eighty six year
history of that college to serve as a permanent president
and the fourth black woman in history to lead one
of the original Seven Sisters colleges. So she was previously

(45:48):
the dean and Professor of Law at Howard University School
of Law. And now she is at the president. Congratulations,
I'm looking at her now. Congratulations to her. Now, I
know you have some for us to write Jasmine for
Black History Month. Yes, right here is right on top
of your stack of papers. Jasmine brand a black woman

(46:09):
owned tech company called Sparky. Now you know we're sitting
here charging everything as we're sitting here right now, my phone,
my laptop, uh, sometimes your headphones. So Sparky is a
black woman owned tech company and they have announced um
their first two part charging system portable device, so you
can Sparky up. So we need to we need to

(46:31):
buy this. Yeah, yeah you do. It's available for pre
order right now. And so founder and creator Kylo Wilkinson said,
our world is becoming more reliant on our tech devices,
and it's time to start innovating the charging experience. I
searched unsuccessfully for an aesthetically pleasing product that would charge
my mobile devices without tacking up too much space. So

(46:52):
I decided to create one myself because consumers shouldn't have
to choose between a creative design and better battery life.
So it's a puck and based combo. So now you
can charge these three different devices simultaneously. So when you're
always asking me or do you have a charger? Do
you have a charger? I can say yeah because we
can charge our devices together, F and Android and early

(47:13):
bird pricing is sixty nine. This isn't my budget, but
the retail price will be ars. Now the question is
will you leave a tip because earlier we were talking
about tipping. We were talking about tipping in I feel
like I'm doing pretty well and I feel like you
need to do better. Well, you only said that now
because you're actually gonna send it an extra tip, and
you also owe a tip to people that actually yesterday

(47:36):
you tip. The day before yesterday you didn't tip enough
for the expensive restaurant that you order from. So you
guy looked really happy with his tip. I just want
to say, what's he gonna do? Like a very excited
he didn't know how much my food quest all right? Now.
There's also a black owned VC firm, next Cube Partners,
and they've parted the next Cube. They partnered with Costco.
They're investing forty million dollars into HBC. You founded start

(48:00):
ups girl. Yeah. Shout out to Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
So Tech Current Test reported that venture capital firm Next
Cuban Costco Wholesale have launched the HBCU Founders Fund. They
want to invest forty million dollars and start ups founded
by at least one HBCU student alumni or faculty member.
Matter of fact, my partner and Coffee uplifts people. Tony Forte,

(48:23):
he went to an HBC let let him, let me
let him know because you know, we need some money
right now, alright, So they yeah, So shout out to
them for that. So the deadline for people who are
trying to actually apply is March tenth, and so you
can you guys can look that up. Next any x
cubed they partner with Costco and they're investing forty million

(48:43):
dollars into HBC. You founded startups there you go. A
Black History Month. We're trying to give you some information,
but I like useful information and actionable things. So now
you guys have some actions that you can take. We
tell you about Bookdog Sports, the first ever black own
athletics supply company that you guys can go ahead and
purchase a basketball. The h W one on one made
from premium micro fiber, composite leather. And then we told

(49:05):
you about Sparky, a black woman on tech company, so
you can charge three devices at once. It's now available
for pre order and you can spark e up and
go on Kickstarter and get pay sixty nine dollars for
early bird pricing, and then the retail price will be
ninety nine dollars. It's esthetically pleasing because I know there
are other devices that charge multiple things, but this look good.

(49:26):
I'm getting it for us, okay. And then, um, we
just told you about a black owned VC firm, Next Cube,
partnering with Costco, and you guys can go on there
and try to get some money if one of the
people in your business went to an h B c U.
March tenth is a deadline, right, yes, March tenth is
that deadline. There you go all of these things you
can do for Black History Month and beyond. And when

(49:47):
we come back, speaking of founders and entrepreneurs, we're gonna
be talking to Ray de Jon. Now you know him
as a comedian, also one of the former hosts video
Music Box. There's a whole documentary about the Music Box
at Ralph McDaniels started. Buddy also has a comedy club
that he just opened in Brooklyn, and such an interesting
story when we come back ray to John on Way
Up with Angela yea, yes, it is a way Yup

(50:16):
with Angela yee. My girl, Jasmine Brand is here with
me today. What's up? Thank you Jasmine Brand for being here.
Thank you. And you know, one of the stories I
wanted to touch on that we did earlier during the
yet is and you know, I love talking about business,
but this has to do with UM Quality Control. You
know they sold to Hide for three hundred and twenty

(50:39):
million dollars something like that, and I saw that actually
UM from Quality Control. He went online and posted and
he said, I don't usually post long notes, but I
recorded some thoughts tonight. There's no value in separation. There
is so much more value when people are working together
and not hating and taking each other down, especially when
you come from nothing. Stop thinking people are selling instead

(51:00):
of see people are selling in and see that you
are building something to create more for everybody. Black entrepreneurs
are not getting these opportunities on a regular basis, and
they should be. Let's stay inspired and celebrate the blessings
and leveling up and breaking of barriers. The announcement. The
announcement did get mixed reactions, so I understand that's why

(51:21):
he posted and said that it kind of gave an
explanation in some context around you know, their decision. Yeah,
And the only reason I was bringing that up is
because a lot of people do want to build a
company to sell it. And there's nothing wrong with that
because it actually gives you some more capital to be
other things. I see people selling their publishing and people
selling their music catalogs and all of that, and it's yours.

(51:42):
You can do what you want with it, and then
you can use that money to go and do something else.
You know. Three hundred Entertainment they sold to Warner Music
for four hundred million dollars, and a lot of people
listening at home like, oh they sold. They listen if
somebody's gonna give you three hundred and twenty million dollars.
But you know, I think people, regular people, we just
don't know. We don't unders in what that means. We
don't understand why outside of the money. People don't understand

(52:03):
like why would you want to lose ownership? People need contact,
So I think it's good to kind of explain that, well,
now they got ownership of million dollars, but there's a
lot more you can do when you have the capital
and also in a partnership, and you talk about global access.
That is a big deal. And we see this happen
in the corporate world all the time, but with these
black owned companies, people get so upset, when very upset,

(52:24):
you know. And I understand that because we feel like
this is our thing. But sometimes people build companies, build apps,
build things to be able to sell it, to get
access to capital, and then they can help other people
like Richie Loue Dennis did when he sold Shame Moisture
and then he has Essence and then he has the
fund now and he helps fund so many different black
owned companies. So it is important to understand that. You know,

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that was just on my mind speaking of ownership. Ray
de Jon is coming up next. He's a comedian. He
was one of the hosts for Video Music Box and
now he owns a comedy club in Brooklyn because he
was tired of just being a performer at him he
wanted to own one. On Way Up with Angelie tomorrow,
It's Way Up with Anton Lay and this is for

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my mastery of comedy segments, which is something that is
near and did in my heart because y'all know I
love comedy. Jasmine Brand is here joining me hosting, and
today we have Kuamic Clark and Ray de Jean here.
Now the reason I have both of you here, we
had actually came to the venue that you guys have
in Brooklyn. Is it called Laughaholics now or to Home?

(53:34):
Want to lose that part of it. And it's good
to have the name of the venue as the address.
And so Ray de Jean legendary as you see he
has on his video music box swea show, but also
a great host, great comedian. And this is your partner
of kuam A and to seventy Park home on the Lapaholics.
And so let's start with the venue and then let's
move backwards. So tell us about opening this new venue,

(53:57):
because I saw you guys had the soft launch earlier
in jan Wary, and I just want to go through
the process of what made you decide to do this? Well,
I met Qualm of years ago. He was the director
of Performing our Center at your college and I would
produce and promote shows at his venue. I would do
my laugh for hole tape, for food show and other
shows involving old school R and B, old school hip

(54:19):
hop and comedy. And so we developed a working relationship then.
And you know, a few years into that relationship we said, hey, man,
you know, maybe one day we could create our own
venue and have our own venue. Pandemic hit and the
conversation came up again, and this time we said, we're
going to go for it. But the way this you're
setting up to is different. Yes, this is what he

(54:40):
told me when I came. He said, this is dirty
five and over. My son asked can he do his
party that. I was like, hell to them. Know, he's
we're looking for a cougar for him. Well I am.
I'm probably gonna give out another later for my son.
By the way, I caught him having sex in my

(55:01):
bed during the pandemic. You have a mask on, no
listening to my Marvin g c D. That's right. Did
it well in the moment? Where did you let him
finish it? Did you? No? I mean, you know, I'm
a guy, but I'm I'm a dad, so I had
to be a dad. I had to discipline them. But
but at the end of the day, Like when I

(55:22):
told them to go down, says him, and his you
know yeah whatever. The dad pat me was like, wow,
my man got something, you know what I mean. And
then I found a box of Magnum condoms. I'm like, okay,
you're protecting himself. Yeah, until I thought about it, I'm like,
I don't even wear Magnum condoms. Now I'm in therapy
because my son got a bigger shot. Just so you know,

(55:46):
some guys wear them but don't necessarily need that, right.
They're just like the packaging exactly looks like a baggy
and then they got to get a twist to hold
it up. Those are Sagnums and just a comedian on
the law. But this is why I'm really excited, because
for myself as an entrepreneur in Brooklyn and then to
have you opening this, I was just hype. And we're

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gonna do the coffee uplifts people and then so that's
another thing. But I do want to dig into the
history you got on your Video Music Box sweat shirt.
And you know, originally I really really really knew ray
to John from Video Music Box. So you and Ralph
mc daniel still super cool to this day. How did
all that transpire? So I was working in substance abuse,

(56:28):
that's my initial career, and I would, you know, host
and do all of the fundraisers for my jobs. And
I became this MC doing fashion shows and weddings. I
worked under Dr Bob Lee and then Ralph. I kept
going to Ralph McDaniel's for an interview or interview, and
I got on this other show called Dance Tracks USA

(56:48):
with this other guy named Tony Toon who mimicked Ralph
show that was on once a week. I kept going
a Ralph, kept going Ralph and kept turning me down.
He's like, I got enough, I got crazy, Sam, I
got tough, ee, I got all these people. I'm good.
So the holidays came and he says, I'm busy. I'm
gonna give you a shot. And that was thirty years ago. Persistence, Yeah,

(57:09):
and um he put me out there and then, and
I've been on his show ever since. Of course I
don't do it as much anymore, but I've been on
that show ever since. And everybody always asked me, how
did you translate from a counselor to a host on TV?
Because hosting and interviewing whether it's a Biggie small to
Tupac or anybody. It's the ability to get people to

(57:32):
talk in a safe zone. And as a counselor, I
I developed those skills, so I went into interviewing artists very,
very easily. From that point, the popularity on Ralph's show
allowed me to start doing my own thing. But I
didn't want to do a video show because I didn't
want to step on the guy's toes who gave me
an opportunity. And that's when the comedy thing started coming.

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You know this guy one day say hey, why don't
you help me promote the show to do comedy. I'm like,
I would love to do comedy. And since I was popular,
every time I promoted the show, it would sell out
because I was on video music. But video music I
used that and then one day talent was my first host.
He's one of the New York Kings. He didn't show up.

(58:16):
He's like, where you gotta host? The show was right,
they had to pick up the pieces. Let me tell
you what to do. You already got a personality that
you're already on stages. You already do concerts, you already
do shows. You could do it and he gave me
some pointers and I did it, and I developed a
love for it, and that was it. I know that
when you get on stage you talk about your own
personal situations and you being a sceptance abuse counselor, let's

(58:40):
talk about what led you to going down that path? Well,
um I had. I had a very very very troubled childhood.
I have a book that's coming out that's called My
Sixth Sense is Humor, because humor is the main aspect
of my life that has helped me to move through

(59:01):
different obstacles, whether it was domestic violence, substance abuse and conceerration,
my career and employment, everything was based on my sense
of humor and how that stood out. So in my
you know, I went down the wrong path. I got
influenced by some people while I was in high school.
I was a hustler. I was a street person. I

(59:23):
would drab and steal and sell drugs and then start
using it myself until it became a problem, and um,
I got arrested several times, winded up, you know, my
correctional facility. The last bit I did was like two
and a half years. But while I was there, I
got my g e D. I started college, I came out,
I finished, I got my degree in substance abuse. But

(59:44):
I didn't let go of the fact that I used
to use. I had a regular job and I was
working at this New York hospital as a housekeeping person,
and every time I got my check, I would get high.
But I didn't realize that I had a problem before
I went to jail because I always had money and
I never had to want a need for it. So
I was working, and then eventually I started borrowing money,

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and eventually I started stealing from the job. So at
first you were kind of functioning yes, yes, And initially
when I came out, because I didn't want to get
back into the street life. I didn't want to get
into stealing again until jail, right, and we want to
go back to jail. Sense of humor help you in jail.
It did. It got me through jail, got me through
in conservation because I was one. I was a snapper.

(01:00:29):
I would always make fun and then you know guys
like I want to lock next to Ray because he's funny,
because doing time is cool. When you're around funny people,
it helps you pass the time. And way I do
a joke on stage, and before they found out I was,
I was home and some because I had everybody laughing
the whole time, so they couldn't figure out who Raidings

(01:00:49):
are really was. So it was kind of like a
determined but it got me through. And you know, as
a child, the domestic abuse on my mom, like my
biological for and three stepfathers after that all physically abused
my mom. And I would go in the street and
I would snap on people. And I figured out later

(01:01:09):
that that was a coping mechanism or coping mechanism that
helped me get by, and then eventually learned about domestic
violence and all the aspects of it, and learned about
something such abuse and and here's the here's the here's
the tipping point. It got so bad that one day
I went in the tunnel of a train station to smoke.
And I went in there and I'm looking at the

(01:01:30):
trains go by, and I'm smoking. It's just three people, me,
myself and I and I'm there and I'm like, I
can't do this no more. And the following day I
went to my aunt and my aunt coincidentally knew the
director of this program in Queen's called elm Core and
she put me in the following day. So I'm gonna
give his twenty dollars. I'm coming to get you in
the morning and I'm gonna put you in the program.

(01:01:51):
So I took the twenty dollars and went and got high.
That was my last time. That was January four. Wow.
So the anniversary that just passed in January. You know what,
That's like God's plan right there too for you to
talk to your aunt and she coincidentally knows somebody. You know.
I feel like a lot of times things do happen

(01:02:13):
for a reason when you decide to seek help. So
you went to seek help. And I know for some
people they relapse, they go back, but for you, that
was that was it. That was it. That's great. Way
up with Angela. You know, I love discussing entrepreneurship and comedy,
mixing two things together with Ray Dejean. We have more
next we all away up with Angela. Yet it bringing

(01:02:43):
bringing the It's way Up with Angela. Ye, and we
are talking to Ray Dejean, entrepreneur and host and comedian.
And you know what's interesting Ray being in the club,
because you were in the club doing interviews. I mean,
and you've interviewed some iconic people, some interviews that like
top tier artists at that time. Who was the most

(01:03:04):
difficult person for you to actually get on camera? Because
I know some people like you did Eminem, it's not like, yeah,
it's not like Eminem does a lot of interviews. You did, Biggie.
I tell you the most difficult interview Timberland. Timberland, Yeah, yeah, Timberland.
He was so hard. It was that uncle Ralph's urban

(01:03:24):
gear at a store and we had him there and
he was like so hard and Ralph told him, He's like, yo,
you gotta really pull teeth with this guy. Back then,
he was real quiet. He's still a little reserve, so
I can see that even more was even more fine,
extremely reserved back then. Who was your favorite person interview?
Big Yeah? I was nervous interviewing him. Yeah, Tupac was

(01:03:47):
a good, good interview. He's not really focused when you
interview him. He's like all over the place. And sometimes
those interviews are in places that are distracting too. Yeah,
but I also feel like those are fun. Nobody does
that anymore, you know. You know. So I was at
a jay Z album release party, and and Ralph goes, Joe,
there's a uh producer there named Kanye West. Make sure

(01:04:08):
you get there. He's an up and coming he got
one of the tracks on it. So we go to
look for him. Right So the camera guy goes up
to him and says, hey, Kanye, we want to do it.
He said, Yo, chill, you know, not not right now.
I'm not ready. I was like, you know, who is
this dude? Just back then the avrogance, that's that's one time.
The second time, my brother was doing these airbrush shirts

(01:04:31):
and so we gave Kanye a shirt. So we're like, hey, man,
you know, could you put this on? We want to
do an interview with your all video music by So
he takes off his other shirt. He's putting it on
and the camera guy pulls the camera and he went crazy, Yo,
turn that camera off. Yo, I'm not dressed yet, bro,
you know what are you doing? I'm like, Yo, dude,
calm down. He's not even recording, na, bro. He went.

(01:04:53):
This is when the tights started coming out, So everybody
was moving away from Baggy and he was getting into
the tight stuf. So he had to tuck his shirt
and he said, now I'm ready. So he's always been like,
Now he's always I've always seen that, Kanye. That's not
a surprise to me. Now let's talk about that transition though.
So you said you were like, Okay, I want to
start branching off and doing my own thing. I don't

(01:05:15):
want to step on Ralph McDaniel's toes, so let's do this.
And then he said talent. You ended up stepping in.
So then what happened after that? I started promoting and
producing shows. At first, I had a booking agent that
would book the comedians for me, until I started developing
a relationship getting my numbers, the numbers on my own.
A comedy room is a venue that's not a comedy

(01:05:37):
club that somebody takes and they transform it into a
comedy space that night. So that's what I was doing
for a while. I had different places, restaurants, bars, and
I would create a comedy night. All of these stars
came through me, Kevin Hart, Mike Ups, JB. Smooth, Bill Burr,
Lisa lamp and Elly, all these comics when they were

(01:05:58):
brand new, d Ra David Carlos Miller all came to
these places in New York. Because New York was the
comedy mecca. Um I used to pay Kevin hard which,
by the way, a lot of communities to get paid
it off, right, right, So I did that. That's when
I started stepping it up. I brought Queen Comedy some more,
D L. Hughley, Bill Bellamy, Show Underwood, Adele Gibbons, Tracy Morgan,

(01:06:21):
all these comedians because I had a bigger venue now
I could accommodate them and be able to pay that
certain amount of money. All right, so let people have
all the information right now. You guys are still kind
of I don't know if you still call it us
off lines, but you're waiting to get the permitting for
more seating. Yes, well we're doing shows now. We're rolling
out gradually. Tony Robbins. Tony Robbins was just here and

(01:06:46):
we're not just doing We're doing comedy, but we're also
doing unplugged series like let's just say Cane Big Daddy
Cane comes in or MC light where we'll have four
shows over the weekend with the smaller crowds und people,
but also during the day. It's a cafe so people
can come their work and we're here to support too.
But I do want to thank you guys both for
taking time out of your busy schedules to come here.

(01:07:07):
We want to make sure everybody knows that this venue
is here and that it's for all of us to
go to weather it's during the day, for the cafe,
the nighttime events, the comedy, the Unplugged series, the brunches,
everything that's going to be going on. I'll be there
because you know, I'm a Brooklyn frequenter of establishments. Instagram
is to b K and then on my Instagram is

(01:07:29):
at Ray de Jean or a y D e j
O Win. All right, well, thank you guys both so much.
I appreciate you support you and y'all are my first
mastery of comedy guests, so I appreciate that too. Thank you.
Angelina started off for the Banga. Thank you so much
for joining us, Ray De John and Kwame Clark. And
when we come back, eight hundred two nine to fifty
is the number. It's asking on Way up with Angela ye, Yeah, going,

(01:07:55):
going way up with angela ye. Everybody with its relationship
for career advice, angels dropping facts. You should know this.
It's way for Angela yee. And there's a few segments
that are near and dear to my heart, and one
of those is asking Ye. So this is the time
that you guys get to ask whatever questions that you

(01:08:15):
might have, and I'll give you some advice, some of
my expert advice. All right, who's this? Hey, what's going
on you? I'm gonna stay anonymous on this one. Let's go.
I appreciate, I appreciated what's going on. Congratulations on the show.
First off, I'm very proud of you, absolutely absolutely so,
thank you, and I'm having me on. I'm actually just

(01:08:37):
trying to get some advice on time day. I'm having
a little bit of a lemma. I've been with my
ladies for like three years, and I am having some
like financial difficulties right now. Like last couple of months,
I lost my job and I've just been trying to
like play catch up and all that stuff. But if
she know that, and she'd been riding with me through

(01:08:57):
it and all that, but I want to do something
special for Valentine's Day, even though you know the funds
they're really looking like that, Like I got like me
like like a hundred dollars to my name. I'm dead
asked what I can spend on that, you know what
I'm saying. But I got this little nice card that
pops out at you with all the photos and stuff.
I got that coming. But I just want to, like,

(01:09:18):
I want to do something else, and I just need
some of the lights on, Like, like, what else I
can do that's reasonable for the budget, that still shows
that I care and I love her. But I just
you know, stuff costs, you know what I mean. And
I just I'm just trying to find out what I
can do that's within my means and that will still
show that I care. You know what I'm saying. Well,
First of all, I love the fact that you are
thinking ahead because Valentine's Day is next week. Some people

(01:09:38):
are waiting until the last minute, so I think that stuff.
I love the fact that your woman knows the situation
that you're financially struggling right now, and that you'll are
comfortable to be able to talk about finances because a
lot of couples can't really do that, you know. And
so what what city are you in? I'm in Chicago. Okay,
you're in Chicago. Oh well, maybe we can help you
do something special for her now. I want you to

(01:10:00):
do this that might be nice because you know I
love Chicago. Okay, Yeah, you've been here all the time.
I'll be seeing you at the you know, be at
Fleet Club. You'd be at all the little places around here,
so I know you'll be out here. Yeah, shout out
to Fleet Club. You know they're doing an episode of
The Shy there. You know what I'm gonna do. As
a matter of fact, I'm gonna send you a packete
from Black Girls Sunscreen for you to give to her.
But in attention to that, I'm gonna call up my

(01:10:22):
guy from Flee Club and I am going to let
you go there and pick out something for your girl.
Don't go crazy with it, don't go tut to buy
the most expensive thing. I'm gonna give you a little
don't even like I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give
you a limit. But I'm gonna hit up my guys
from Fleet Club. I'm gonna hit them up right now.
Hold on the line. Let me get your information. So

(01:10:43):
for Valentine's Day, you're gonna take and then I want
you to also plan something yourself, you know, in the house. Okay,
so maybe what you do can you cook? Yeah, I
can cook and I can follow directions. Yeah, alright, guy, Well,
then you're gonna also make her a beautiful dinners her
with the card, and then you're gonna get her something
from Fleet Club and you're gonna give that to her also,

(01:11:04):
and you guys are gonna have a beautiful, nice Netflix
night in with you making the dinner, get a nice
bottle of wine, and then you're gonna give her a gift.
I can do that, slape. That's that's love. I can
do that. That's I can do that. That's reason. Alright.
We'll hold on the line. I'm gonna get your information
and I'm allowed appreciate I'm let boo and know that
you're coming. Thank you, gee, I really I love you

(01:11:25):
so much. I appreciate you. You are a life saver.
Thank you. Alright, hold on alright, that is asking again.
That phone number is eight fact. Call us up right
now and we can help you on Way Up with
Angela Yee coming up next. We got the last word. Yes,
the Way Up with Angela ye Day four in the books.

(01:11:45):
It's almost a wrap. Jasmine Brand is here. It's almost
been a full week, almost tomorrow to be a full week.
And you were here last week, we actually did a
practice run that was just in the New York City
Try State area. Yes, I was here. You were here
for that, which I appreciate. That was exciting. It's gotten
First of all, it was great last week. If the
show has gotten even better. It is very fast, it's quick,

(01:12:07):
but we're enjoying it. It's fun. And I just wanna apologize.
Earlier I used the term that everyone did not know.
What term is that? Angela? I said the word kiki. Okay,
do you all know in this room what kiki means
shaking the head? Yes? Well apparently I don't want to

(01:12:28):
call names, okay, but let's call her name. But her
name is Jennifer when she works here with us. In
my heart, Jennifer, she's white. But she did not know it,
and I didn't realize. I thought k was a universal phrase.
And so just to be inclusive. Keiki is like a
good laugh, Yes, you know, like a good ki. I
guess when we laughing? Like is that why? I don't

(01:12:50):
know what argent? Why don't you do a deep die?
A deep die? I'd like to say that it is
Black History months, so it's important that we share our slang.
If people were people are not familiar with it. I
found the origin that fact explain the deep dive. Oh no,
I don't know if I believe because it's in the
Urban Dictionary. Oh that's that's fact. So come on, no, no, no, no,

(01:13:10):
I don't want to say this. I'm scared. It says
it's Korean for ha ha ha. I don't believe that.
I don't know if I believe it. I don't think
I believe it. I don't even want to read this
because this could be offensive. Let's not a stop, right,
you stop where we're ahead. Yeah, I don't want to
do that. Yeah, let's let's stop with kiki kei meaning
in English. Let me see. Yeah, this is only from

(01:13:32):
the Urban Dictionary. I guess it's our thing. I feel
like you're happy. Black History Months is only a few
years old, though, is it. Yeah, we haven't been saying
it for years. It's not like an old school term. No,
it's got in the Urban Dictionary in Yeah, that's I
mean it's five what six years? What? Years? This? Okay?
All right? Well, good to know, but anyway, thank you

(01:13:52):
so much to everybody who tuned in today. I appreciate
you so much. Um and I also want to shout
out everybody who we've been working on this whole voicemail system,
because what I really want to do is make sure
that the show super serves everyone who listens, so that
y'all can participate and be part of it. That's why
we do segments like of course I kept asking, that's
why we started off as China Light, where you get

(01:14:14):
to call in and highlight somebody who's done something positive.
You know, all of those things are important. And we
have Pick a Side where you guys get to debate
some of the hottest topics that are going on right now.
And we have some new segments that will be introducing
starting next week. But I just wanted to make it
through this week first. That's a good that's a good plan,
and I good plan. And I want to thank Godfrey
who co hosted Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and now Jasmine

(01:14:36):
Brand today and tomorrow. And now is your time to
go ahead and have the last word when we do.
Last word is always a number and you can call
us anytime because guess what, we absolutely love to hear
from you on Way Up with Angela. Ye, let's have
a good kiki. He Scott Lee from Angine Room Audio.

(01:14:57):
Wanted to give a shout out my homegirl angel known
her since high school. Seeing their entire come up, and
I'm just super excited to see the next steps and
see you blow up with this new show. Mad supporting
Love from Engine Room. Looking forward to getting back in
and working our lip service together as well. This your
man Love with the Love Foundation Music Group. And I
just want to shine a light on everybody that's already

(01:15:18):
doing something positive. Somebody, everybody that really believes in that.
Somebody like if you just out here helping people, keep
doing that, if you want to help people start, you know,
like we all have to have positivity and and just
we have to spread more love. So that's what I
want to shine a light on, just spreading love every day.
You feel me and shout out the rag Angeline you

(01:15:39):
see Hi, Angela. This is Karen from Detroit. They called
me my friends Tommy KB. I just wanted to say
congratulations on everything that you do. You're amazing. I'm so
glad that I'm in the car and able to find
your show because I used to hear you in the
morning show, but now that you're not there, I've been

(01:15:59):
looking for you so I just want to say congratulations.
You're amazing and everything you do I'm gonna support you.
Love you from KB from Detroit. By turning a little
little way up, Angela E Is way up.