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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Y yea ye is, but y'all being waiting for Oh
oh you tapped in a way up with Angela Yee?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
What's up his way up at Angela Yee and Mary Christmas,
Felis Navidad and we have a gift for you today.
We're gonna be playing Gee Herbal's interview and his album
Little Herb came out this year, so I guess he's
closing that Little Herb chapter or revisiting the chapter everyone
loves so much and then closing it. Also, Joey Badass,
his album Lonely at the Top came out this year.
(00:27):
He also made it to beat Out to Top ten
Rappers List of twenty twenty five. And he also had
a baby this year. That's his second child, so congratulations
to him and Saraya. But let's get the show started
with some more love and some positivity on this Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I won't do that again. Don't worry. Call us up.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Eight hundred and two nine two fifty one fifty. Let
us know who you want to shine a light on.
It's way up, shin right, It's time to shine a
light on what's up his way up at Angela Yee
and Mary Christmas just to put it out there again,
Jesus is a capricorn. Okay, I'm a capricorn too, just
putting that out there.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But it's time to shine a light.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty Call
us up, Let us know who you want to shine
a light on.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hey, Aliah, it's good.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I want to shine a light on my mother, and
I just want to say that I love her so much.
She is so strong. We lost my sister back in
twenty eighteen, and we finded a scholarship in her name.
And there's a mental Hope foundation. Yes, it's called this here,
Realcore Foundation. It's out. It's Alas town At, who's in
high school. And she is just such a strong woman.
(01:35):
I love her so much, and I hope she gets
to hear this. She is my superhero superwoman. She's just
so awesome and I love her and I just want
to shine a light on her so many times.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well I've never met her, and I love her. Well,
thank you so much for Colin. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Shout out to your mom.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
All right, Well, that was shining light eight hundred and
two nine two fifty one fifty just in case you
couldn't get through again, you can always leave a message.
We always want to hear from you and shining like
that way.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
It's way up going with Angela yee. Yeah, it's gonna
turn me up here. We grew up the This is
way up with Angela.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's way up with Angela yee. And look who's in
the building, ge Herbo's here with me? How you feeling it?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I want you to clear something up that was said.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And I saw this headline on TMZ, and so I
really because I know we're very tapped in with everything,
and it says here that the headline is do you hear?
But was in agreement with President Donald Trump sending a
National Guard to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
See, they be trying to like take my words and
take the stuff I say, and like twisted, I wouldn't
say I'm in agreement.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
They took that as like me.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Trying to make a political statement, like you know what
I'm saying. I'm not political. Like all I said was
I'm just all for keeping the kids and the women safe.
I'm a product of violence in my city. I'm all
for like saving a youth. I don't really give it
about grown men making dumb ass decisions.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't really care about that grown man making them
decisions do come from the environment that they were raised in.
Like we all do have to do better, and I
feel like sometimes it is just a lack of like resources, It's.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Always a lack of resources for sure, And like that's
why I'm so adamant about being a voice for the voiceless.
Like I don't done so much for my city as
far as putting millions of dollars in the city between
like me and my brother McKinny Nelson, Like we don't
really gave back tenfold when it came to just being
somebody that's gonna be on the forefront when it come
to making a difference.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
That's why I speak out about.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Mental health and gun violence and all that stuff because
I come from that. I'm not a Trump supporter or
nothing like that. I'm not political at all, to be
completely honest with you for real. So it's like I
was just saying, whatever gonna stop the violence in my city.
It's certain people in Chicago, like they don't really give
about the police. They're not scared of about scared of
the police, for real, like, so it's like, if the
National Guard is standing on the corner, don't stop somebody
(03:53):
from shooting a block up.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I don't care. I'm cool.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I saw somebody went on Live and was like and
they put up this story and they were like, don't
try that in Chicago, because let me tell you something,
we not going for that. I don't know if you
saw that, and he was like, this is a different place.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
That's somebody saying that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Who's going to be in the house who ain't never
did nobody or never not, got probably no tough bone
in his body.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
They just want to go viral on the internet.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Right now, I'm talking to g Herbo. He's got new
music out his new app and he's got.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
An album, Little Herb.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know, you have some of the funniest moments on
social media too. I remember seeing somebody and you were
like in the background and they was like fake filming themselves,
but they was really filming you.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that was recently. Matter of fact,
Yeah that was recently. I shot a video. I don't
even know who that guy was.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's so weird that but it went viral. Just like yo,
if you want to take a picture with him, just.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Say like, I feel like he was recording it. Then
I said, so when I seen him, you look up. Yeah,
I'm like, what's up? You feel what I'm saying. But
I don't get why people do that. Man, that's so weird.
They just asked me, yeah, for sure, like what that was?
Probably like a week ago. I was in Philly, me
and my security was like having a debate. They thought
I was arguing with my girl.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I saw that that somebody film.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
That they thought I was arguing with I wasn't even
arguing with her. He walked up on me.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I ain't know what's tapping me, trying to tell me,
like let the window up. You arguing and you yelling,
and fans outside recording you, Like, let the window up.
She told me at least three four times before that
girl walked up to me. It was like, let the
window up.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And then the other thing that always comes up is
you and Faara hun You were like, whoever did this
is up?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
That was his fault. I'm gonna be completely honest with you.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I was still drunk from the night before, leaving the club,
trying to talk to Huntin in the morning. Man, nine am,
I guarantee you. I was leaving the club at probably
five six. He called him like, yeah, the minister they
called me, told me they want to like man, I'm like, bro,
what you mean, Like I gotta go away.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
I don't know how my arms did at Like, I
don't remember, man.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
All I know is I was still drunk at the
table at the minister like, yeah, man, what's love?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Respect?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And then that picture just pop up. Yeah, and it's
always funny when you see it. Gee, herboes here. We
got more with him when we come back.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He goes everywhere with his conversation, super honest and transparent.
It's way up, way up with hands Yeah, what's up?
His way up with Angela Ye, and g Herbo is
here with us today. We're talking about his new music,
Little Herb.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
But he's been through a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Now let's talk about this song went Legit, Yeah, banger it.
It really paints a picture. But we got to ask you,
like the deeper questions about you know, what.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Was going on in certain parts, Like my.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Music has always been a form of therapy for me.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Really, I really felt like I was fresh off of
a long paragraph reading tying in the text or something
like she.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Must have said, that's why you started the song like that.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And that's exactly why I started it like that, Like
I guarantee you, like I could bet my bottom dollar
that me and her was arguing before I went in
the studio. I wasn't trying to create that song. I
wasn't trying to create a hit record. Like were just
in the studio and they told me to rap, and
that was the first thing I could think of when
it just turned out.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Like had it turned out right?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Now, I'm talking to g Herbo.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
He's got new music out his new app and he's
got an album, Little Herb. You know, you beat like
a lot of the odds too, just in so many
different situations.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Definitely.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I know you said you went to rehab twice, and
they do say people when they go to rehab, they
normally don't cack a habit the first time they go.
It does be quiet, and some people also go to
rehab and don't want anyone to know about that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It was good for me, I really I did good
the first time I went to rehabit though, like I
think I went in two thousand and seventeen or something
like that, and I was clean for like a year
and then I lost my best friend and I relapsed, right,
I only want to get emotional talking about it, but like,
I just felt like I experienced so much deff. I've
been losing friends since I was in middle school. And
(07:32):
I was at a point in my life where I
felt successful. I had just had my first kid, I
was on tour, like you know, I had moved out
of Chicago, and I felt like, man, I don't even
gott to be in this no more gotta look over
my shoulder.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I don't got to carry a gun.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I felt like I was just getting to the point
where I could make money and pull my people closest
to me out of that. And I lost one of
my best friends who I felt like was going to
be a part of that what not, It felt like,
I know was going to be a part of that
journey and be with me, Like that was one of
the main people I wanted to save his life, you
know what I'm saying. Like I wanted to get him
out of Chicago, get him to LA with me, and
(08:07):
show him this lifestyle.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Because I first started.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Doing music when I was like sixteen fifteen, going on
the road doing shows seventeen eighteen nineteen. He never would
come with me, like he always wanted to be in
the hood. When I started doing shows and getting famous,
like everybody want to come, Like when you got to show,
I want to come, I want to come. People I
don't even want to come, want to come, like, and
I used to have to beg him to come, and
he had never come.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I got to a point where, now I got some real.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Money, I'm in La, like I'm thinking, I'm fenna get
a crib and my homies just gonna all come to
La with me, you know.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
And then he got killed.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It just made me real, real depressing, and I just
like I feel like I couldn't even be there for
my son at the time, you know, Like, and I
just started back like getting high.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
And then I had to go back to rehab after that.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And that was like the survivor's remorse that you yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
For sure, losing him, losing my homie Cap who passed
away actually before him.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Then my little brother passed away in twenty twenty one.
It was just like a lot, only for.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Real, that's a lot for anybody to have to deal with.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
But I appreciate you for coming up. It's always great
talking to you. Your interviews are always amazing.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Definitely, definitely is always good to see.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well that was g Herber.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Make sure you go listen to Little Herb again and
again and again if you haven't already. We got the
Way Up mixed for you at the top of the
hour on this Christmas and when we come back. Also,
don't forget Joey Badass Brooklyn's Own is going to be
joining us.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It's Lonely at the Top.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's the name of his project that's out right now
that he put out in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's way up.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
When it's relationship for career advice, Angela's dropping facts.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You should know if this is as gee, what's up?
Its way up with Angela? Yee, I'm here, my guy beatout.
It's here right and you know it's time to ask
ye eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty
any question you have. We definitely want to make sure
that we are of service and can help you out.
We got Billy on the line.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Hey, Billy, Hey, how you going.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I'm good. It's me, I beat out. We can't wait
to hear your question.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
So you know I'm in the dating world. Dating team.
I'm turning thirty down.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Today, Happy birthday.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I want to thank you, thank you, But I want
to take my dating like a little serious. But you know,
I've just been had ostig relationship and I just want
to start suggesting dating contracts to these new people. I'll
start dating you gave me, and I'll start dating like
I want to accept my boundaries, my expectations and my
non evotionables or something. You think I'm doing too much
by asking someone to sign a dating contract.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, what's in the contract?
Speaker 8 (10:24):
What are the terms?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
The terms are gonna be my non evotionable. You can't
talk for your exites no more? Because everybody want to
go back to the exit.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
What did they have? Kids?
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Who talking about? The kids turned business hours from nine
am when school starts, the three pm the school finished.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Now what else is in this contract?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
You know?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
I don't know. I'm I'm just trying to think about
what I'm putting and maybe my expectations. Like if I
called you, there should be a time limit if you
gotta call me right back of twenty minutes or more.
What are you sleeping?
Speaker 8 (10:57):
You need to tell me that you got to you
got the red line. Some of these terms and conditions, man.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And now what happens if they violate the contract?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Oh, they get documentation like in the workplace, but you're
gonna get a rite up to terminated. Wow, I don't
have to take my heart and my feelings.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So if they give you a contract to sign, you'll sign.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Also about like what the contract says.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Technically, this is kind of like a freeing up agreement.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Technical but it's not even a relationship yet. It's just
when you first start dating, right.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Yes, but in dating people tend to be lying a lot.
I want to date for long term.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Probably don't care if they're going to violate the contract anyway, Yeah, sure,
I'll sign it.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
You gotta get notized.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And then.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Angela, I don't know about a contract, but I think
having to be very clear on your intentions and your
expectations is a great thing to do.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
All right, So I don't know about the contract. You're right,
you're the second person that shut me down.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
It might be the third. No, how about a verbal
that could work?
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Right?
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Handshake a verbal contract. We do that every day, and
people still be lying.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The truth is that people will do what they want
to do, and a contract ain't gonna stop nothing that's true.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Thank you for calling Billy. That was ask ye eight
hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty. If you
couldn't get through, leave a message and we'll always answer
your question. But right now, let's get into some Joey
Badass when we come back.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
This is somebody who I do really enjoy talking to.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I felt like he was sixteen years old when I
met him, and now look what he got going on
is way up.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
This is way up with Angela.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
You are a media may man, right, you never know.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
What Ange's gonna say.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
What's up his way up with Angela?
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Yee?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And look who's back in the house. Yeah, Joey Badass
is here. You always feel like you like.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
My little brother from Brooklyn.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
That's the fact.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You know, you got the new album out Lonely at
the top. And first of all, last time you were here,
you definitely lied.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Okay what I say?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Show me video was out and I was like trying
to be like, oh, y'all did this video people thought
you guys were dating. You were like, yeah, yeah, no,
it was just a rollout.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
It wasn't a lie. It was just like you know,
we was. It was very beginning stages, you know what
I mean, So we weren't.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
It was too much chemistry. I'm sorry. I don't care
how much acting you do. Absolutely it was a little
mini movie. Y'all was so cute in there together. And
then after that, I said, I know, Joey didn't sit
up here and lie and tell us. Now, I wasn't understand.
You got to protect your relationship.
Speaker 10 (13:23):
Gotta protect it, you know, but also you don't want
to mess things up when it's like in those beginning stages.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Now, the other thing that you lied about was this
whole seeming retention.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Oh god, I didn't lie about that either.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I was.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
I was practicing. I didn't lie about that either. You know,
I was practice.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You did it at the time, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Yeah, at the time, that's what I.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Was practicing, you know, But congratulations.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
Sometimes I still like to practice it, you know what
I mean. It's not the easiest thing in the world.
But hey, listen, I think the point I was trying
to make it was the trying to spread the message.
It is a it's a positive effect and outcome.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Listen, you have people do a whole post about it,
like oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Oh yeah, No, I always saying that, but I do.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Want to say to this day, I do appreciate that
because I know when you said you were going to
do lip service, like I told you, I was shocked.
I was like, Joey bad that's is going to do
lip service. But it was amazing for you to feel
comfortable enough, you know, to be in the space and
have those types of conversations.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Is sure that sparked a lot.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
It's funny because I see clips come up from that,
like every now and again. I'm like, damn, like life is.
It's crazy like you forever just on this journey.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Joey Badass is here.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That's my guy, and we got more with him. When
we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
We'll be talking about his new album and of course
his life is definitely lifing in a good way.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
We'll discuss its way up for me up here, we
go up there.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
This is way up with Angela ye.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What's up is way up with Angela yee, and Joey Badass.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Is here with me.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Then he's got his new project out right now. It's
lonely at the top. First of happy to see you every.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Single time likewise.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But I remember on social media there was an event
and I talked about this up here in the sneaker store,
Oh yeah, And I was like, was that hard for
you when something like that happens, Because that went viral.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
Somebody who I was very close with in my past
having a whole perspective shift on me, and it came
from distance, you know what I'm saying. It's like, yo,
you know, I had to create distance between myself and
this person because things were just happening, and it's just like,
you know what, like I gotta go this way, and
it just came to a moment where it's just like,
(15:36):
because you know, I'm pretty confrontational, a message was sent
to me that like had funny energy, and it's just like,
I know you in real life, We're not about to
go back and forth here when it's like I'm going
to see you like hey, angrew.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Like what's up to me?
Speaker 10 (15:54):
But you know, it was it was one of those
situations where they're just like yo, like yo, you know,
I want to understand, like what's the issue with me?
Like you know, I came here so we could talk
about it like men. Yeah, but like I swear I
didn't show up on like no type of time where
it's like, you know, yeh was have a real conversation
and you know it went out of him based on
(16:15):
how that person responded.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
The thing is, I got genuine.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Love for you, you know.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
What I'm saying, So I'm gonna come see you about it.
It's like, yo're sa.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Type of passion does come from having general love for somebody.
Absolutely right now, Brooklyn's down, Joey Badass is here. You
also know him as Unique on Raising Kanaan and he's
got a new album out right now. It's lonely at
the top. I'm being confrontational in a relationship. Are you
the one that always wants to talk about things?
Speaker 8 (16:40):
You see?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
That's one of them lift service questions?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Now, just like how is that? Because no, absolutely, it's like,
all right, we need to talk about this.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
Well not necessarily we need to talk, but yeah, yeah,
I can't be that. But also you know what I am.
It's like if you want to talk about something like
a right, what's up? Like I'm always ready, like I'm never.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Here, like I was wrong?
Speaker 10 (16:59):
Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely, I'm listen. Accountability is my middle name.
You know what I'm saying I want to take account
because for me, again, it's like every loss is a lesson, right,
It's like the more I can see of how I'm being,
it's like the more I can understand of how it
could be better.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Is the most serious relationship you've ever been in?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Yeah, yeah, I'll say that absolutely.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I love this for you.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Yeah, you know this, this relationship is reach levels that
I've never reached before.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
So, yeah, this is so cute to see. I'm going
to stop because you're not You're grown now, you're thirty
years old.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
Everybody be like cute. I'll be like cute, like what
you like? Que I'm a cute now. Now I feel
that I know where it's coming from. It's like a
it's a wholehearted place, you know what I mean. And
I definitely do receive that.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Do you feel like y'all would do stuff together, like
you know, a movie or project?
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Oh yeah, I could definitely see that for us, Like
you know, we've spoken about any things like that, but
I don't think the right opportunity necessarily presented itself yet,
or maybe something that we would have to create.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, I think you guys created.
Speaker 10 (18:03):
Yeah, so that's definitely something that we talk about for.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Sure, Okay, jay Z and Beyonce, Joey, thank you so
much for coming through.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You know you always my Brooklyn brother, So thank you
so much for coming through absolutely lonely at the time.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Guys, thank you for having me Way Up well.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Thank you so much to Joey Badass for joining us.
You can watch up for and if you on my
YouTube channel, Way Up with you and when we come back,
you guys have the last word?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Gets your voice heard? What the word is? Is the
last word on Way Up with Angela yee? What's up this?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Way Up with Angela Yee?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Thank you again to ge Herbo, Thank you again to
Joey Badass, but mostly thank you again to you for
listening and for being part of the Way Up family.
We appreciate you. We love you so much. Happy Holidays
to you and to your family and this is your show.
You have the last word.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Hey, Angela, I just want to give a shout off
to my mom bot Me and my kids just driving
her crazy, but she's been healedy me and she been
the only one helping me. Plus with another baby on
the way, I just wanted to sound the light on
her for that, and I thank her.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
For everything she'd been putting up with with me and
my kids.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
It's time I'm about the trip you tapped in and
way up with Angela.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Ye I wanting now ow
Y yea ye is, but y'all being waiting for Oh
oh you tapped in a way up with Angela Yee?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
What's up his way up at Angela Yee and Mary Christmas,
Felis Navidad and we have a gift for you today.
We're gonna be playing Gee Herbal's interview and his album
Little Herb came out this year, so I guess he's
closing that Little Herb chapter or revisiting the chapter everyone
loves so much and then closing it. Also, Joey Badass,
his album Lonely at the Top came out this year.
(00:27):
He also made it to beat Out to Top ten
Rappers List of twenty twenty five. And he also had
a baby this year. That's his second child, so congratulations
to him and Saraya. But let's get the show started
with some more love and some positivity on this Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I won't do that again. Don't worry. Call us up.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Eight hundred and two nine two fifty one fifty. Let
us know who you want to shine a light on.
It's way up, shin right, It's time to shine a
light on what's up his way up at Angela Yee
and Mary Christmas just to put it out there again,
Jesus is a capricorn. Okay, I'm a capricorn too, just
putting that out there.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But it's time to shine a light.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty Call
us up, Let us know who you want to shine
a light on.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hey, Aliah, it's good.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I want to shine a light on my mother, and
I just want to say that I love her so much.
She is so strong. We lost my sister back in
twenty eighteen, and we finded a scholarship in her name.
And there's a mental Hope foundation. Yes, it's called this here,
Realcore Foundation. It's out. It's Alas town At, who's in
high school. And she is just such a strong woman.
(01:35):
I love her so much, and I hope she gets
to hear this. She is my superhero superwoman. She's just
so awesome and I love her and I just want
to shine a light on her so many times.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well I've never met her, and I love her. Well,
thank you so much for Colin. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Shout out to your mom.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
All right, Well, that was shining light eight hundred and
two nine two fifty one fifty just in case you
couldn't get through again, you can always leave a message.
We always want to hear from you and shining like
that way.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
It's way up going with Angela yee. Yeah, it's gonna
turn me up here. We grew up the This is
way up with Angela.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's way up with Angela yee. And look who's in
the building, ge Herbo's here with me? How you feeling it?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I want you to clear something up that was said.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And I saw this headline on TMZ, and so I
really because I know we're very tapped in with everything,
and it says here that the headline is do you hear?
But was in agreement with President Donald Trump sending a
National Guard to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
See, they be trying to like take my words and
take the stuff I say, and like twisted, I wouldn't
say I'm in agreement.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
They took that as like me.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Trying to make a political statement, like you know what
I'm saying. I'm not political. Like all I said was
I'm just all for keeping the kids and the women safe.
I'm a product of violence in my city. I'm all
for like saving a youth. I don't really give it
about grown men making dumb ass decisions.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't really care about that grown man making them
decisions do come from the environment that they were raised in.
Like we all do have to do better, and I
feel like sometimes it is just a lack of like resources, It's.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Always a lack of resources for sure, And like that's
why I'm so adamant about being a voice for the voiceless.
Like I don't done so much for my city as
far as putting millions of dollars in the city between
like me and my brother McKinny Nelson, Like we don't
really gave back tenfold when it came to just being
somebody that's gonna be on the forefront when it come
to making a difference.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
That's why I speak out about.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Mental health and gun violence and all that stuff because
I come from that. I'm not a Trump supporter or
nothing like that. I'm not political at all, to be
completely honest with you for real. So it's like I
was just saying, whatever gonna stop the violence in my city.
It's certain people in Chicago, like they don't really give
about the police. They're not scared of about scared of
the police, for real, like, so it's like, if the
National Guard is standing on the corner, don't stop somebody
(03:53):
from shooting a block up.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I don't care. I'm cool.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I saw somebody went on Live and was like and
they put up this story and they were like, don't
try that in Chicago, because let me tell you something,
we not going for that. I don't know if you
saw that, and he was like, this is a different place.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
That's somebody saying that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Who's going to be in the house who ain't never
did nobody or never not, got probably no tough bone
in his body.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
They just want to go viral on the internet.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Right now, I'm talking to g Herbo. He's got new
music out his new app and he's got.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
An album, Little Herb.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know, you have some of the funniest moments on
social media too. I remember seeing somebody and you were
like in the background and they was like fake filming themselves,
but they was really filming you.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that was recently. Matter of fact,
Yeah that was recently. I shot a video. I don't
even know who that guy was.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's so weird that but it went viral. Just like yo,
if you want to take a picture with him, just.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Say like, I feel like he was recording it. Then
I said, so when I seen him, you look up. Yeah,
I'm like, what's up? You feel what I'm saying. But
I don't get why people do that. Man, that's so weird.
They just asked me, yeah, for sure, like what that was?
Probably like a week ago. I was in Philly, me
and my security was like having a debate. They thought
I was arguing with my girl.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I saw that that somebody film.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
That they thought I was arguing with I wasn't even
arguing with her. He walked up on me.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I ain't know what's tapping me, trying to tell me,
like let the window up. You arguing and you yelling,
and fans outside recording you, Like, let the window up.
She told me at least three four times before that
girl walked up to me. It was like, let the
window up.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And then the other thing that always comes up is
you and Faara hun You were like, whoever did this
is up?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
That was his fault. I'm gonna be completely honest with you.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I was still drunk from the night before, leaving the club,
trying to talk to Huntin in the morning. Man, nine am,
I guarantee you. I was leaving the club at probably
five six. He called him like, yeah, the minister they
called me, told me they want to like man, I'm like, bro,
what you mean, Like I gotta go away.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
I don't know how my arms did at Like, I
don't remember, man.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
All I know is I was still drunk at the
table at the minister like, yeah, man, what's love?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Respect?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And then that picture just pop up. Yeah, and it's
always funny when you see it. Gee, herboes here. We
got more with him when we come back.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He goes everywhere with his conversation, super honest and transparent.
It's way up, way up with hands Yeah, what's up?
His way up with Angela Ye, and g Herbo is
here with us today. We're talking about his new music,
Little Herb.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
But he's been through a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Now let's talk about this song went Legit, Yeah, banger it.
It really paints a picture. But we got to ask you,
like the deeper questions about you know, what.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Was going on in certain parts, Like my.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Music has always been a form of therapy for me.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Really, I really felt like I was fresh off of
a long paragraph reading tying in the text or something
like she.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Must have said, that's why you started the song like that.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And that's exactly why I started it like that, Like
I guarantee you, like I could bet my bottom dollar
that me and her was arguing before I went in
the studio. I wasn't trying to create that song. I
wasn't trying to create a hit record. Like were just
in the studio and they told me to rap, and
that was the first thing I could think of when
it just turned out.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Like had it turned out right?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Now, I'm talking to g Herbo.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
He's got new music out his new app and he's
got an album, Little Herb. You know, you beat like
a lot of the odds too, just in so many
different situations.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Definitely.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I know you said you went to rehab twice, and
they do say people when they go to rehab, they
normally don't cack a habit the first time they go.
It does be quiet, and some people also go to
rehab and don't want anyone to know about that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It was good for me, I really I did good
the first time I went to rehabit though, like I
think I went in two thousand and seventeen or something
like that, and I was clean for like a year
and then I lost my best friend and I relapsed, right,
I only want to get emotional talking about it, but like,
I just felt like I experienced so much deff. I've
been losing friends since I was in middle school. And
(07:32):
I was at a point in my life where I
felt successful. I had just had my first kid, I
was on tour, like you know, I had moved out
of Chicago, and I felt like, man, I don't even
gott to be in this no more gotta look over
my shoulder.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I don't got to carry a gun.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I felt like I was just getting to the point
where I could make money and pull my people closest
to me out of that. And I lost one of
my best friends who I felt like was going to
be a part of that what not, It felt like,
I know was going to be a part of that
journey and be with me, Like that was one of
the main people I wanted to save his life, you
know what I'm saying. Like I wanted to get him
out of Chicago, get him to LA with me, and
(08:07):
show him this lifestyle.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Because I first started.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Doing music when I was like sixteen fifteen, going on
the road doing shows seventeen eighteen nineteen. He never would
come with me, like he always wanted to be in
the hood. When I started doing shows and getting famous,
like everybody want to come, Like when you got to show,
I want to come, I want to come. People I
don't even want to come, want to come, like, and
I used to have to beg him to come, and
he had never come.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I got to a point where, now I got some real.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Money, I'm in La, like I'm thinking, I'm fenna get
a crib and my homies just gonna all come to
La with me, you know.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
And then he got killed.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It just made me real, real depressing, and I just
like I feel like I couldn't even be there for
my son at the time, you know, Like, and I
just started back like getting high.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
And then I had to go back to rehab after that.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And that was like the survivor's remorse that you yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
For sure, losing him, losing my homie Cap who passed
away actually before him.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Then my little brother passed away in twenty twenty one.
It was just like a lot, only for.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Real, that's a lot for anybody to have to deal with.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
But I appreciate you for coming up. It's always great
talking to you. Your interviews are always amazing.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Definitely, definitely is always good to see.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well that was g Herber.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Make sure you go listen to Little Herb again and
again and again if you haven't already. We got the
Way Up mixed for you at the top of the
hour on this Christmas and when we come back. Also,
don't forget Joey Badass Brooklyn's Own is going to be
joining us.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It's Lonely at the Top.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's the name of his project that's out right now
that he put out in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's way up.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
When it's relationship for career advice, Angela's dropping facts.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You should know if this is as gee, what's up?
Its way up with Angela? Yee, I'm here, my guy beatout.
It's here right and you know it's time to ask
ye eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty
any question you have. We definitely want to make sure
that we are of service and can help you out.
We got Billy on the line.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Hey, Billy, Hey, how you going.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I'm good. It's me, I beat out. We can't wait
to hear your question.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
So you know I'm in the dating world. Dating team.
I'm turning thirty down.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Today, Happy birthday.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I want to thank you, thank you, But I want
to take my dating like a little serious. But you know,
I've just been had ostig relationship and I just want
to start suggesting dating contracts to these new people. I'll
start dating you gave me, and I'll start dating like
I want to accept my boundaries, my expectations and my
non evotionables or something. You think I'm doing too much
by asking someone to sign a dating contract.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, what's in the contract?
Speaker 8 (10:24):
What are the terms?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
The terms are gonna be my non evotionable. You can't
talk for your exites no more? Because everybody want to
go back to the exit.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
What did they have? Kids?
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Who talking about? The kids turned business hours from nine
am when school starts, the three pm the school finished.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Now what else is in this contract?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
You know?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
I don't know. I'm I'm just trying to think about
what I'm putting and maybe my expectations. Like if I
called you, there should be a time limit if you
gotta call me right back of twenty minutes or more.
What are you sleeping?
Speaker 8 (10:57):
You need to tell me that you got to you
got the red line. Some of these terms and conditions, man.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And now what happens if they violate the contract?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Oh, they get documentation like in the workplace, but you're
gonna get a rite up to terminated. Wow, I don't
have to take my heart and my feelings.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So if they give you a contract to sign, you'll sign.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Also about like what the contract says.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Technically, this is kind of like a freeing up agreement.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Technical but it's not even a relationship yet. It's just
when you first start dating, right.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Yes, but in dating people tend to be lying a lot.
I want to date for long term.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Probably don't care if they're going to violate the contract anyway, Yeah, sure,
I'll sign it.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
You gotta get notized.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And then.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Angela, I don't know about a contract, but I think
having to be very clear on your intentions and your
expectations is a great thing to do.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
All right, So I don't know about the contract. You're right,
you're the second person that shut me down.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
It might be the third. No, how about a verbal
that could work?
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Right?
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Handshake a verbal contract. We do that every day, and
people still be lying.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The truth is that people will do what they want
to do, and a contract ain't gonna stop nothing that's true.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Thank you for calling Billy. That was ask ye eight
hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty. If you
couldn't get through, leave a message and we'll always answer
your question. But right now, let's get into some Joey
Badass when we come back.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
This is somebody who I do really enjoy talking to.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I felt like he was sixteen years old when I
met him, and now look what he got going on
is way up.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
This is way up with Angela.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
You are a media may man, right, you never know.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
What Ange's gonna say.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
What's up his way up with Angela?
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Yee?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And look who's back in the house. Yeah, Joey Badass
is here. You always feel like you like.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
My little brother from Brooklyn.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
That's the fact.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
You know, you got the new album out Lonely at
the top. And first of all, last time you were here,
you definitely lied.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Okay what I say?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Show me video was out and I was like trying
to be like, oh, y'all did this video people thought
you guys were dating. You were like, yeah, yeah, no,
it was just a rollout.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
It wasn't a lie. It was just like you know,
we was. It was very beginning stages, you know what
I mean, So we weren't.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
It was too much chemistry. I'm sorry. I don't care
how much acting you do. Absolutely it was a little
mini movie. Y'all was so cute in there together. And
then after that, I said, I know, Joey didn't sit
up here and lie and tell us. Now, I wasn't understand.
You got to protect your relationship.
Speaker 10 (13:23):
Gotta protect it, you know, but also you don't want
to mess things up when it's like in those beginning stages.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Now, the other thing that you lied about was this
whole seeming retention.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Oh god, I didn't lie about that either.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I was.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
I was practicing. I didn't lie about that either. You know,
I was practice.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You did it at the time, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Yeah, at the time, that's what I.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Was practicing, you know, But congratulations.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
Sometimes I still like to practice it, you know what
I mean. It's not the easiest thing in the world.
But hey, listen, I think the point I was trying
to make it was the trying to spread the message.
It is a it's a positive effect and outcome.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Listen, you have people do a whole post about it,
like oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Oh yeah, No, I always saying that, but I do.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Want to say to this day, I do appreciate that
because I know when you said you were going to
do lip service, like I told you, I was shocked.
I was like, Joey bad that's is going to do
lip service. But it was amazing for you to feel
comfortable enough, you know, to be in the space and
have those types of conversations.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Is sure that sparked a lot.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
It's funny because I see clips come up from that,
like every now and again. I'm like, damn, like life is.
It's crazy like you forever just on this journey.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Joey Badass is here.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That's my guy, and we got more with him. When
we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
We'll be talking about his new album and of course
his life is definitely lifing in a good way.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
We'll discuss its way up for me up here, we
go up there.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
This is way up with Angela ye.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What's up is way up with Angela yee, and Joey Badass.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Is here with me.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Then he's got his new project out right now. It's
lonely at the top. First of happy to see you every.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Single time likewise.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But I remember on social media there was an event
and I talked about this up here in the sneaker store,
Oh yeah, And I was like, was that hard for
you when something like that happens, Because that went viral.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
Somebody who I was very close with in my past
having a whole perspective shift on me, and it came
from distance, you know what I'm saying. It's like, yo,
you know, I had to create distance between myself and
this person because things were just happening, and it's just like,
you know what, like I gotta go this way, and
it just came to a moment where it's just like,
(15:36):
because you know, I'm pretty confrontational, a message was sent
to me that like had funny energy, and it's just like,
I know you in real life, We're not about to
go back and forth here when it's like I'm going
to see you like hey, angrew.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Like what's up to me?
Speaker 10 (15:54):
But you know, it was it was one of those
situations where they're just like yo, like yo, you know,
I want to understand, like what's the issue with me?
Like you know, I came here so we could talk
about it like men. Yeah, but like I swear I
didn't show up on like no type of time where
it's like, you know, yeh was have a real conversation
and you know it went out of him based on
(16:15):
how that person responded.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
The thing is, I got genuine.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Love for you, you know.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
What I'm saying, So I'm gonna come see you about it.
It's like, yo're sa.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Type of passion does come from having general love for somebody.
Absolutely right now, Brooklyn's down, Joey Badass is here. You
also know him as Unique on Raising Kanaan and he's
got a new album out right now. It's lonely at
the top. I'm being confrontational in a relationship. Are you
the one that always wants to talk about things?
Speaker 8 (16:40):
You see?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
That's one of them lift service questions?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Now, just like how is that? Because no, absolutely, it's like,
all right, we need to talk about this.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
Well not necessarily we need to talk, but yeah, yeah,
I can't be that. But also you know what I am.
It's like if you want to talk about something like
a right, what's up? Like I'm always ready, like I'm never.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Here, like I was wrong?
Speaker 10 (16:59):
Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely, I'm listen. Accountability is my middle name.
You know what I'm saying I want to take account
because for me, again, it's like every loss is a lesson, right,
It's like the more I can see of how I'm being,
it's like the more I can understand of how it
could be better.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Is the most serious relationship you've ever been in?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Yeah, yeah, I'll say that absolutely.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I love this for you.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Yeah, you know this, this relationship is reach levels that
I've never reached before.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
So, yeah, this is so cute to see. I'm going
to stop because you're not You're grown now, you're thirty
years old.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
Everybody be like cute. I'll be like cute, like what
you like? Que I'm a cute now. Now I feel
that I know where it's coming from. It's like a
it's a wholehearted place, you know what I mean. And
I definitely do receive that.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Do you feel like y'all would do stuff together, like
you know, a movie or project?
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Oh yeah, I could definitely see that for us, Like
you know, we've spoken about any things like that, but
I don't think the right opportunity necessarily presented itself yet,
or maybe something that we would have to create.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, I think you guys created.
Speaker 10 (18:03):
Yeah, so that's definitely something that we talk about for.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Sure, Okay, jay Z and Beyonce, Joey, thank you so
much for coming through.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You know you always my Brooklyn brother, So thank you
so much for coming through absolutely lonely at the time.
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We appreciate you. We love you so much. Happy Holidays
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to my mom bot Me and my kids just driving
her crazy, but she's been healedy me and she been
the only one helping me. Plus with another baby on
the way, I just wanted to sound the light on
her for that, and I thank her.
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For everything she'd been putting up with with me and
my kids.
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