WUWY: Lencia Kebede Makes Broadway History In Wicked + Larsa Pippen On Lip Service

Lencia Kebede Makes Broadway History In Wicked 

Larsa Pippen Says Age Is Nothing But A Number

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Up, yo, what's up? Everybody is way up with Angela.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ye, it is a Tuesday, getting ready for this Fourth
of July weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Are y'all having a good time?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hopefully you guys also have off on Friday. But like
I kept telling y'all yesterday, if you're traveling, just be safe,
be careful, be early, and have grace. All right, Well,
today we have a special guest joining us. If you
haven't seen Wicked on Broadway, you definitely need to make
it out there. And for the first time ever, a
full time black woman is playing the character of Alphaba.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Lyncia Kibetta is gonna.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Be joining us, and you're gonna love her journey from
where she started to how she ended up on Broadway.
The first time ever a black woman has landed this
full time role as Alphaba and Wicked. All right, well,
let's start the show off with some love and some positivity.
Let's shine a light eight hundred and two nine fifty
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Shine the light on them, Shine a light on them.

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It's time to shine a light on them.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Its way up with Angela yee and happy Tuesday. It's
time to shine a light. You know how we spread
love all the time. That's how we start the show.
We highlight people, businesses, family members, significant others, just people
that you may not even know you saw them on
the news. What's Applequenca, Who do you want to shine
a light on?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I want to sind the light on my sister Lakwanda
boys here in there Field, Tennessee. Okay, Well, yesterday she
just lost her baby. She was five months pregnant, so
she need all the love and tears this to be given.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I am so sorry to hear that. That is so difficult.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
We are sending her so much love and prayers. I
know that's not easy, and you know it's yeah, I
don't even Let's just just send us some love if
you guys, anybody who knows her, you know, just send
a quick message, send us some love, support, you need anything.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's it?

Speaker 4 (01:59):
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Speaker 2 (02:00):
All right, Well, thank you, thank you so much, thank
you la Quentin for calling up. Well that was Shina
Light eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty.
If you couldn't get through, you can always leave a
message in China. Light that way and when we come back,
we have your yet man. Essence Festival is about to start.
There's a little bit of drama with the performances already.
Will tell you who has pulled out a performing uh

(02:22):
And this was going to be an amazing reunion.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
But one person is like, no, it's way up.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
This says in the rooms from industry shade to all
the gossip out, send Angela's speeling that.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
EyeT, what's up?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
His way up at Angela yea, and it is time
for your yet So, according to report to me, a
X from No Limit Records has publicly announced she's not
going to be doing a master p at Essence Fest.
This was supposed to be master PE's last concert. She said,
it's still unbelievable that I'm actually saying this. I will
not be performing at Essence Fest as a featured artist
in Masterpiece set. She said that discussions about our involvement

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only began last week, even though she was on the
promo materials and the concert had been planned for months.
She says that Masterpiece management initially dismissed her performance fee entirely.
Then she said that there was a contract that was
sent to her June twenty seventh. She thought, that's your
timeframe didn't allow for proper preparation. She said, I'm still
also insulted by the dismissal of my fair fee, considering

(03:21):
essence paid big. Well, you know what I feel her
And if something doesn't serve you and you don't need
to be there, then you ain't gotta be there. Master
P has since addressed these allegations and gave me an
ex her respect.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Here's what he had to say.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
There was a miscommunication when that y'all knows that I
give X whatever she want. I talked to miss I
told her to give me a number. She gonna get
whatever she wants. She could perform she want to, she.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
Don't have to.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
All right, Well, all this means is yes, Essence Festival
is this week, so we'll stay tuned. That's your yet. Well,
when we come back, let's talk about Larsa Pippen. She
is on today's episode that just dropped of lip Service
or that's about to drop, and we'll tell you what
she had to say about what she realized when it
comes to dating older versus dating younger. You know she

(04:10):
got a new man. Her new man is thirty one
years old. But she did try to dip her toe
in the dating pool of someone around her age and
it didn't go well.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
We'll tell you what she had to say. It's way up.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
No, I'm beg.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
We about to do this one of les to famous
women in radio radiomen and we're talking about Angela.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Ye, you're way up with Angela. Yee. Please believe that what's.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Up its way up at the end of the yee.
And again today is a lip Service Tuesday. Larsa Pippa
and is on this latest episode. If you've been watching
Real Housewives of Miami yet seeing her on there, but
you know she's got a thirty one year old man.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
People always get on her about dating younger, dating younger, Well,
she has dated older men. As a matter of fact,
she recently was dating somebody who was forty seven years old.
She dropped some hints as to who that person is.
But here's what you had to say on lip service
about maturity and age not always lining up.

Speaker 8 (05:00):
I dated a guy that was forty seven years old
before I dated Jeff, and he was so immature, And
when I broke up with him, I said to him,
there's a reason why I dated you, and he's like
why and I was like, just to prove that age
is nothing but a number. I'll never did anyone like
you would get her a test. He literally was like,
I never want to get married. I'm afraid of commitment.
And then he would like go crazy and buy me

(05:20):
like thousands of dollars in flowers and send me all
this stuff. He was dating someone like he's a public figure.
He was dating someone he like wasted her time. I
was like, bro, you wasted her time, You got a
kid with her and didn't marry her, So chances are
that's just who you're going to be forever. Right, let
me keep it moving.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
All right?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, watch that full episode of lip Service that's out today.
You'll definitely be thoroughly entertained. And when we come back,
we got to your yea te and let's talk about
new w NBA teams.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
I'm so excited for this announcement is way up about the.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Lid above this, but let's get it. Oh yeah, angelus
feeling that yee te.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Come and get the tea.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
What's up? His way up? But Angela, yeah, and it's
for your yet. I'm excited about this, y'all.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Now I'm a big fan of the New York Liberty,
but the WNBA in general, well, the WNBA is expanding
to eighteen teams over the next five years, and by
twenty thirty, there's going to be teams in Cleveland, Detroit,
and Philadelphia. Cleveland starts in twenty twenty eight, Detroit in
twenty twenty nine, and Philadelphia this season after they all
have to still get approval from the NBA and the

(06:24):
WNBA Board of Governors. Toronto and Portland are going to
start the league next year. So it's just exciting to
see all of this expansion. All three new teams announced
have NBA ownership groups. Each of them paid a two
hundred and fifty million dollar expansion fee. That's about five
times as much as Golden State paid out for a
team a few years ago.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
So you can see the growth with the money that
is coming in.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
So love to see it. And this is a huge
win for the WNBA. I know y'all going to be
out there supporting and going crazy, cause you know I
will when we come back.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
We have under the radar.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
These are the stories that are not necessarily in the headlines,
therefore under the radar.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
But you definitely need to know about him. And you
know what, since we.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Just talked about Detroit, let's talk about a good deed
that happened in Detroit. Somebody's last wish that got fulfilled
its way up.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
This in the news that relates to you. These stories
are flying under the radar.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
What's up his way up at Angela yee, And it's
time for your under the radar. Now, this happened in Detroit.
I mean, of course it did. A helicopter dropped money
over the East Side honoring Darryl Thomas. He was a
beloved community member. He was known for his generosity. They
had a block party with classic cars, family tributes. His
son organized this money drop. He called it his father's

(07:38):
last blessing to the community that he loved. So a
helicopter came and arranged cash down on Grassitt Avenue. That
was the tribute and smoke who is Darryl's son helped
put all of this into motion, He said, Detroit, y'all
might not know who my father was, but he was
a great father among his community. He was a legend
and he blessed everyone, and that was his last blessing

(07:59):
to everyone.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
That's all it was.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
So that money drop was in the middle of a
huge block party celebrating Darryl Thomas his life. His family
was there being represented. A lot of people knew him
as Plant and that name was called out to the
heavens throughout that and they said, many blessings to everyone
in long lived Plant. So what a nice thing to do.
They definitely had it blocked off. You saw that money
just circling down to the street. They said, it was

(08:23):
definitely thousands of dollars. All right, So blessings and long
lived Plant. That is you're under the radar. We do
have your way Up mix at the top of the
hour plus Lancia Kabeta is going to be joining us.
She is the first black woman to ever be cast
at full time and wicked as Alphaba, and she's got
an amazing journey.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
You're gonna love it. It's way up.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
She's like the like they Angela Jean, like they Angelie
Jean Man.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
She's spilling it all. This is yeak, well, what's up?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Its way up with Angela ye And it's time for
your ye te as. We are waiting for Rihanna to
make more music. She's you know, currently pregnant with her
third child, but she is at least still doing karaoke
and tapped into what's out currently. Here's what she had
to say. One question about what song is her go
to a karaoke Oh my gosh, it's Baby Burning Blue

(09:16):
for right Santis.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
For my birthday.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
I actually did karaoke at home. We were doing a
lot of songs. It actually turned into beef because when
people want to do their song and someone else runs
up and tries to interrupt them doing their song, it
gets a little crazy, especially when people are drinking. But
I think one of the songs that really rocked was
Crush on You by Little Kim And also all I
Need metha Man and Mary J. Blige because you gotta

(09:39):
have some type of duet in there, all right. Also,
Malik Beasley is the subject of a federal gambling investigation. Now,
these claims are from the twenty twenty three to twenty
twenty four season. At that time, Eliite Beasley was playing
for the Milwaukee Bucks. One gambling insider told ESPN that
when the Bucks played the Trailblazers, the chances that Beasley
were record less than two point five rebounds dipped significantly

(10:04):
in that game, Beasley completed six rebounds and that upset
the unusual bets.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now, Malik Beasley's.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Attorney responded and said an investigation is not a charge.
Malik has afforded the same right of the presumption of
innocence as anyone else under the US Constitution. As of now,
he has not been charged with anything. You know what
else too. He's negotiating a forty two million dollars three
year contact with the Pistons, but that is on pause
right now.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Please, I hope you didn't mess up that bag. All right?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, that is your yet and when we come back,
ask yee eight hundred two ninety two fifty one fifty
any question you have, We're here to help its way up?

Speaker 5 (10:38):
Go all right?

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Everybody since with its relationship with career Advice, Angela's dropping facts, this.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Is as gee, what's up? Its way up with Angela?

Speaker 7 (10:48):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
And it's time for ask yee eight hundred two nine
two fifty one fifty. If you have a question, of course,
I'm here to help you out, all right.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
We have Alicia on the line. What's up? Alisha?

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Angeline, how are you?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I'm good, thank you. What's your question today?

Speaker 7 (11:02):
So I don't know if you've dealt with first So
I would love to know your best advice for after
syndrome and just showing up as that girl every day.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I'm gonna tell you.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
And it's something that I feel like, no matter what
I mean, I deal with it all the time, Like
you start feeling like am I supposed to be where
I'm supposed to be?

Speaker 9 (11:17):
Do?

Speaker 7 (11:17):
I know?

Speaker 1 (11:17):
As much as people.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Think I know the best way to overcome that is
I feel like to be as prepared as possible. And
for me, that means if I'm going to be speaking
on something, let me make sure I'm as educated in
it as I can be. Take the courses, read the books,
make sure I do all of the necessary research so
that if anybody tries to ever question my credentials, or

(11:39):
even if I'm questioning myself, at least I feel confident
enough in knowing that I'm educated on what it is
that I'm talking about and what I'm representing, and also
sometimes getting out of your comfort zone and thinking about
what is the worst thing that could happen in this situation.
There's been times when I've gone to events and felt
so out of place, like I didn't know anybody. You know,

(12:00):
I'm here by myself, and there's times you can't bring
up plus one and those are learning experiences, you know.
And so I just think that making sure that we
know as much as we can, and that we also
even put ourselves in a situation where we have to excel,
and also owning up to certain things, like sometimes there's
things you don't know. It's okay to ask questions. You

(12:20):
don't have to pretend to be the expert on everything.
That's exactly how you learn. Sometimes things don't go as planned,
and that's human and that's normal, and we have to
give ourselves grace for those things. And so just you know,
rest assured in knowing that you are not alone in this.
It's something that I feel like I have to grapple
with all the time. But it's something that if you
don't sometimes feel like, man, am I supposed to be here?

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Am I you know?

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Knowing everything I'm supposed to know? Then you're not challenging yourself.
And I think one of the best things that we
can do in life is challenge ourselves and get out
of a space where we're comfortable.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
You know, I'm going to use that for sure.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
All right, thank you for calling.

Speaker 10 (13:00):
I have a great day you too.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
That was ask ye eight hundred two nine two fifty
one to fifty. If you couldn't get through, you could
leave a message, ask a question. If you're on the app,
just hit that microphone and you can leave us a
message that way. When we come back. We got the
first ever full time black cast member alphabe from Wicked.
Lyncia Kabetta is going to be joining us, and she
is a rare gem.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
We'll talk to her. It's way up.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
Yeah, it's gonna turn me up.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Here we go up again.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
This is way up with Angela Ye.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Is way up with Angela yee? And what an honor
HI to have, Lendciakabetta. Here you are playing starring in
Wicked on Broadway, the first black Alphabe full time correct,
So congratulations on that.

Speaker 9 (13:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
I love going to Broadway plays, but sometimes I feel
like I don't see enough.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Of us fair fair in.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
The audience, and especially not enough of us represented on
this stage. I feel like that's all correlated. So what
did that mean to you when you first heard the News,
because I know it was a lot of back and
forth auditioning, not knowing what was going to happen.

Speaker 9 (14:01):
I just felt like it was an opportunity to tell
my story and the story of my community in like
a very passionate and honest way, especially in a character
that has a lot of agency in her own life,
even though the world is kind of against her in
the story, just like her arc is so inspiring and
so personal to me, and that she just stays so
true to herself through all this hardship. So like it

(14:21):
was an opportunity to tell a story through the eyes
of a character who is strong.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Right now, I'm talking to Lindcia Cavetta.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
She is the first ever full time black Alphabet on
Wicked on Broadway. How would you describe Alphabet's character for
people who are watching, Because there's a lot of underlying meanings.
You could be watching it just for entertainment, and it
is this type of thing where later on you can
reflect and say, actually, this has a lot of different meanings.
Because the music is beautiful on there, the plot and

(14:47):
the storyline, you can go in there the spectacle, yeah,
and not have to think that hard. But then when
you do you're like, this represents so much more. What
would you say if somebody asked you what alphabet represents.

Speaker 9 (14:58):
I think alphabet represents challenging preconceived ideas of the world
around you. She believes in the Wizard. The whole beginning
of the story is her pursuing this like childhood dream
of meeting him and getting to work with him, and
then she finds out that he's not who he says
he is. So that like disillusionment that she experiences, I
feel like is very representative of what is happening.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
In the world right now unfortunately.

Speaker 9 (15:20):
So I believe Alphaba represents not taking things for face value,
including herself. Everything she experiences is also like a microcosm
of what she has to do within her life, in
her own identity. So like this concept of like good
and evil, like Glinda the good and Alphaba the wicked witch.
So like this one's bad and this one's good.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Great and good. Why, Yeah, it's just the whole story.

Speaker 9 (15:43):
Is about questioning why have we decided just because this thing,
this entity is different, that it's a threat, And I
feel like the whole but at the end they become
they become one Glinda and Alphaba become close. And that's
just a small example of just not taking things for
what they are because you just don't know what's happening
behind closed doors.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Even alphabet being green and how that happened. Yeah, I
also feel like that's a theme too when you think
about why she even is. You know, the decisions or
things that could happen that get passed down.

Speaker 9 (16:14):
That generational trauma, or just like how we take care
of ourselves now is how the next generation will live.
That's the world that they will live, And how we
take care of the earth right now is how our
next generation will live. So yeah, that's a really really
good point. How she became green in the first place.
There's also something to taste it.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
But her mom come on, Yeah, Lancia Kibetta is here
with us.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
We got more with her when we come back.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
If you loved watching Wicked in the movies or if
you love it on Broadway, then you'll love seeing and
hearing what Lyncia Kabeta has to say as the first
ever full time black Alphabet on Baraway.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
We about to do this. Yeah, yeah, more way up
with now.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (16:55):
His way up at Angela yee, And we got Lancia
Kibetta joining us. She is the first ever a full
time black cast member as Alphabet and Wicked on Broadway.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
I know you said that.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Cynthia Riva also sent you flowers, Yeah, right before you
were doing your days performance.

Speaker 9 (17:11):
So thoughtful, so cute.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Do you see a difference in you know, just young
people seeing somebody like you. I don't know if they
do any studies to see, like what has this increased
the number of people that are you know, young black
and brown girls that want to go to see theater.

Speaker 9 (17:25):
I definitely feel like from what I've heard internally in
the company that like sort of the statistics of like
the audience demographics have shifted a lot, and I'm just
generally seeing more black and brown faces in the audience racially,
but also just like ages.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, I think sometimes people feel like it's a little
out of reach for them.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
But then when you go and you're like, okay, this
is not I can relate.

Speaker 9 (17:42):
I can see someone like me or something.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
And I've heard also people talk about musicals and be like,
but this is like the music alone stands by yourself
completely agree. You know, what's your favorite song is saying
no good deed?

Speaker 9 (17:53):
Listenact too. It's just a badass moment. I feel so powerful.
And it's one of those songs where like she's just
experiencing so many emotions at once, like you want me
to be evil, want me to be the Wicked Witch,
I'm gonna be theood Witch. It's like this beautiful resignation
and it's very pointant. It's very intense, but it's powerful. Man,
I love it.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Right now, I'm talking to lindsay A Cabeta.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
She is the first ever full time black alphabet on
Wicked on Broadway.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Who's been the most like, Wow, I can't believe this
person reached.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
Out to me.

Speaker 9 (18:24):
John Chu, the director of the Wicked movie, hit me
up like immediately when the press release came out, and
I was like, that's amazing. I'm obsessed with everything he's done.
He's so brilliant and he's like the way his mind works.
I was just like, I'm so John, if you can
hear me, I can't wait for us to do a
project together. He's just the homie like he's he's from
California like me, so like he's very down to earth

(18:46):
and like just like incredibly supportive for someone I've never
actually met like just supportive from afar.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
All right, we love it, I know, but I'll be
watching you and following everything that you have one on.
Congratulations to you, represent amazing. Thank you, know for everybody
that wants to go out there. If you haven't seen Wicked,
shame on you. But you know, make sure you get
a chance to go because I've already been a couple
of times.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
All right, well, thank you so much for joining me.
It was a pleasure, such apposure.

Speaker 10 (19:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
You can watch that full interview on my YouTube channel
Way Up with Ye. And when we come back, you
guys have the last word.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
The phone tapping to get your voice heard?

Speaker 5 (19:21):
What the word is the last word on Way Up
with Angela Yee?

Speaker 1 (19:25):
What's up his.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Way Up with Angela Yee? And you know what time
it is? Happy Tuesday. Count down until we all have
a couple of days off, hopefully for the fourth of July.
And there's a lot of sales going on right now,
so don't ask me how I know. But anyway, thank
you again to Lyncia Kabetta for joining us. You can
watch her interview on my YouTube channel Way Up with Ye.
She is alphab on Broadway and wicked and of course

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this is your show, so you have the last word.

Speaker 7 (19:53):
I would like to shine the lights on my son's father.
It's just an absolute fad like taking on the respond
ability of helping raise our three year old autistic son
as well as five other children that does not belong
to him biologically. He started a nine emergency medical transportation
company here in Milwaukee called Writing Our Transportation Services. He

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is also looking to hire. He's just been doing insane.

Speaker 10 (20:21):
He is absolute best like he's.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
Like an arch angel, like an angel here on earth.

Speaker 10 (20:27):
Hey, this is Francis Richmond from Ohio Toledo, Ohio to
the exact. I want to give my mom, sa fan
of hearers, a shout out. I'm shying like because she's
the strongest person I know. We didn't been through hell
and back and she still remains strong. Mama.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
I love you.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
This one for you, going way out, turning out with
Angela Yee