WUWY: Way Up With Nicole Ari Parker, Diddy’s Court Sentence + Tell Us A Secret

Way Up With Nicole Ari Parker, Diddy’s Court Sentence + Tell Us A Secret

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everybody listen.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah ye, but you'll been waiting for.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're tapped in the way up with Angela Yee.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
To wait up with Angela Yee. Happy Friday, and we
have a good time today. I to Rodriguez is here
guest hosting good I love that even off the air,
we have real conversations. And what's really fun to me
is that behind the scenes we're getting all these exclusives
because I just working on her new set and so
she's testing some jokes out up here on us, and

(00:31):
I'm excited for it. I'm excited you if you laugh,
then I'm good. Yeah. You know me, I have input too.
I'm like, yes, girl, do this, because.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
You don't do courtesy laughs. I've been I've seen you
at the comedy shows.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh, you're right. And I don't want to look angry
because you know, you never want to sit there looking
like there's always that guy that looks like he's angry.
He doesn't want to be there, He don't want to
laugh with his arms crossed. Yeah, but I'm never that.
But I'm always like, yeah, all right, Well today another
beautiful person will be joining us. Nicole Ari Parker is

(01:05):
gonna be here she's got her gym wraps. I think
they're out today too, so make sure you go check
those out on TikTok. We'll give you all the information
on how you can get them. But when you work
out to be able to put this wrap around your head,
that also can help you.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
Here.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Make sure the sweat doesn't get in your eyes. But
also look really cute. Okay, we like it. But let's
start the show with some love of some positivity. Let's
shine a light eight hundred two nine two fifty one
fifty Call us up. Let us know who you want
to shine a light on. It's way up.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
We're gonna light the fuck up.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
I'm shin shine.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Turn your lights on, y'all, spreading love to those who
are doing greatness.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Shine the light on them, Shine the light on them.
It's time to shine a light on them.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
All right, it's way up with Angela Yee and it's
time to shine a light. And I'm here with my friend, comedian, writer, actor,
producer Ada Rodriguez author. By the way, who do you
want to shine a light on?

Speaker 4 (02:00):
So I want to shine a light on an influencer
by the name of Cheg Guerrero. He is a Dominican
kid that has taken his comedy career in a very
different direction. He is always speaking about the injustices that
are happening in the world, and you don't get a

(02:21):
lot of work when you talk about things that make
people controversial. And so I just want to tell people
to follow him and go see him when he performs,
because he's doing the good work that a lot of
comedians would not dare to do. He's an Afro Latino
and he's speaking up for black people, immigrants. He just
speaks up for all of the people who are really

(02:43):
he's doing things that people with way bigger platforms should
be doing, and they're too scared and they're too scared
to do. So I just want to shine a light
on che Guherretro, because man, he does stuff that I
don't do.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I'm like he's saying, I'm about to follow him right now?
All right, Well, Matthew, who do you want to shine
a light on?

Speaker 7 (03:00):
I'm good. I just want to shine a light on myself,
you know, young man, just taking the steps I got
to take better myself. I'm able to go in the
shelter and hopefully after this I'll be able to have
my own house.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh okay, you're going into a shelter right now. Are
you working?

Speaker 7 (03:14):
Yes, I am working. I got a little spy job.
I install card a little bit, and I'll play music.
I'm a musician, all right.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Well listen, best of luck to you, Mackie, and we're
shining a lot on you. You're doing what you got to
do to hold it down. I am wishing you the
most blessings ever and I feel like everything's gonna work
out for you.

Speaker 7 (03:31):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
All right, thank you Mackie for calling already. Have a
go on you too. That was shining light eight hundred
and two nine two fifty one fifty. If you couldn't
get through, call us up and shine a light for
last word. And when we come back, oh man, Adam
Rodriguez is here and we got your yet and today
is the day for Diddy to get sentenced, and we'll
tell you all of the details, will tell you about
the letter that he wrote to the judge. You know,

(03:55):
anticipation is high, so we're going to keep you updated
throughout the show.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's way up, going, way turning out with Angela Yee,
was she about to blow the lid abof this bot.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Let's get it.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh yeah, Angela's feeling that. Yee te Come and get
the tea.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
It's way up at Angela.

Speaker 8 (04:10):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
And I'm here with Ada Rodriguez and we're talking about
Diddy well Man and he is getting sentenced today. But
before all of that happens, we'll tell you what's going
on behind the scenes. So CBS Mornings did a sit
down interview with Deontay Nash, who's the former stylist for Ditty.
He also was a person who took the stand during
the trial, and he also has a lawsuit against Diddy.

(04:30):
He said that he is a legend years of physical
and sexual abuse. This is his first sit down interview.
We have a little clip for you to hear.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Okay, describe the incident when he strangled you.

Speaker 9 (04:45):
Which time there was one Cassie was shooting a video.
I love it. He just came in with such a
bad attitude, so I just left the room. I went
outside to smoke a cigarette. He's coming up to me
and grabbing me and choking me and throwing me on
the car. Did not tell y'all, y'all don't need to
be going out. And he's like choking me out.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's wild to worder for somebody that whatever put their
hands on you. In addition, he responds to people who
are saying he's just an opportunist.

Speaker 9 (05:12):
I'm far from an opportunist. I think he may be
the opportunists. He's the biggest celebrity opportunist. I know a
vast majority of the things in my lawsuit I said
on the stand and they didn't dispute.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
It is this about money.

Speaker 9 (05:24):
No I was abused. It's about making myself feel whole.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
I had a say what well? And this lass who was
filed last week, but he also has two sexual assault
lawsuits that were filed yesterday Lakeisha Ward and to Joan Bledsoe.
They're both represented by Tony Busby and so According to Warren,
she says that he allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted her
at a pool party back in twenty eighteen. She signed

(05:52):
an NDA and felt dizzy after one or two drinks,
and then Bledsoe says back in two thousand and ninet,
he was only eighteen met Diddy at a party where
did he allegedly enticed him with promises of a recording
contract and then drugged and sexually assaulted him throughout the night, allegedly. Wow,
all right now, fifty cent also pend a letter to
the judge where yes he did. He said, I've had

(06:12):
an ongoing dispute with Puffy for over twenty four years.
He's very dangerous. Multiple times I have feared for my life.
I think you should consider the safety of the general
public your honor before unleashing him upon them. Okay, and
it goes on. Yeah, fifty is scared for.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
This. Now.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
On Didny's side of things, his team has released a
video showing a lot of his family moments, his accomplishments,
the philanthropy that he's done. You know, you get to
see the kids saying how much they love him. Here
is that message from all his children, Bob.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
I love you. I've looked up to you and ady you.
I love how you inspire and keep going you. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
You know.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
He's also talking about getting into heaven in this tribute
video that they put together for him. Here's what he said.

Speaker 10 (07:07):
I had to kick this trophy on on one of
the best person trophy, and I know in order for
me to get into heaven, I'm not going to get
in there.

Speaker 6 (07:13):
Well, come on in heaven. You had twenty hit records.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
I don't mean nothing, and that's what this world is for.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
And I'll say, oh, come on in heaven.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
He was a nice person and Ada we were talking
about a lot of things that's been going on. So
just for everybody to understand what's happening today, as did.
He's getting sentenced. He was found guilty on two accounts
of the Man Act, and that's for transporting individuals across
state lines for the purpose of prostitution. He was acquitted
on the more serious counts of racketeering and sex trafficking.

(07:42):
So he is facing up to ten years in prison
on each of the Man Act counts, and that's because
of the freak offs. He also wrote a letter to
the judge ahead of the sentencing, saying that he's sorry
for the hurt that he caused over the past thirteen months.
I've had to look in the mirror like never before.
My pain became my teacher. My sadness was my motive.
And you know, he's also been teaching courses in jail

(08:03):
that are very popular.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
How to DDT. Somebody, what's d DT that's a wrestling move?

Speaker 11 (08:10):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (08:10):
I was like, what is that? I was like, it
sounds gross, a slam body slam of b but he
did write like a four page letter to the judge.
So f yi, we're watching what's happening though. This is
all going down like they're in court right now. People
are live streaming and we'll keep you updated in real time,
right Ida, Yeah, all right, when we come back about

(08:32):
last night where we discussed what we did last night,
we got to hear why you're in town, and I
want to hear some of what you're working on. Absolutely,
it's way.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Up who night night, So about last night, Yes, I
went down.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, it's what you put Angela. Ye, I'm here with
my girl Ada Rodriguez, and it's time for about last night, Adam,
what are you doing here in New York? Back again?
I love it.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I first of all, I was here to do one
of those book things that what you did with me.
My book came out. I did it with this author
named Alejandro Edeida. He's a Dominican writer that wrote a
book called Loca, which is about being a queer Dominican
kid growing up in the Bronx Wow and then and
in the Dominican Republic. It's not a it's it's fiction.
It's not about his life, but it's this It's really

(09:18):
a good book. I have one for you. And so anyway,
I was doing that and then I'm working on my
new hour. So I've been I was doing stand up.
I'll be doing stand up this whole weekend at the
at the stand and at the cellar.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Do you know when you're filming it?

Speaker 4 (09:32):
I want to film it at the beginning of the
year after I'm done with the movie, so January February.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
And where am I traveling to for this?

Speaker 9 (09:38):
I know?

Speaker 4 (09:38):
I think I'm I want to do it in d C.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Okay, I can make it. Yes, well, you came to
Puerto Rico when filmed, especially in Puerto Rico. Okay, So
d C. DC's an interesting place right now.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
I know, and I think that's why it's important to
go there and show up for the people, the beautiful
people of DC. You know, we know what's happening. But
the thing about it is black people and brown people,
as much as they try to exterminate them, because that's
what they've been trying to do, we just keep.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Going, right, We're gonna keep it pushing. We're not going anywhere.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
And looking good, excellent, not cracking.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Creating our own supporting each other beautiful. It's a process
to you know, get things shut down.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
But as you've been hearing from a lot of people
who have been talking about when you will are faced
with fascism, you stand up. You don't freeze, you don't paralyze,
you don't become paralyzed. You speak up and you show up.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Okay, well let's keep on showing up. Well, yesterday I
kind of took it easy. It was like, I think
that it's been intense with all of the drama and
the beef going back and forth between like you know,
JT put out a disc track yesterday, Carti and Nikki
still going at it with each other. I hate the
conversations of going after each other's beautiful children. Absolutely, that
bothers me, like to my core, because that is supposed

(10:54):
to be off limits. Those kids haven't done anything to anybody.
And so I was like, I'm gonna go for a walk.
And so I went for a walk in Prospect Park.
It was beautiful, and then on a way there, I
saw our restaurant I had never seen before. It was
called Carab Soul. You know, I love me some Caribbean food.
So I just popped in there after my walk and
had some good food and went home.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
You always got the good eats. I always eat with you,
and it's some of the small So it's I love Coarena.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's good. So shout out to Caribsol. Now when we
come back, you know what time it is. Ida, get
ready for this. Tell us a secret, Oh girl, you
ooh babe, you find the people. Eight hundred two nine
two fifty one fifty. And in any secret that you have,
we are here to listen to you. Maybe it'll make
it into Ida's new stand up. Eight hundred two nine
two fifty one fifty. You're anonymous to no judgment zone,

(11:43):
call us up, tell us a secret. That's eight hundred
two ninety two fifty one fifty. It's way up, going way.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Out, turn out with Angela.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yee yo.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Oh yeah, this is a judgment free zone. Tell us
a secret, all right?

Speaker 3 (11:57):
His way up by Angela.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm here with Ada Rodriguez. Are you ready to be
non judgmental?

Speaker 4 (12:02):
I'm ready to be non judgment all right.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty.
You can tell us a secret. You're anonymous it's a
no judgment zone. Anonymous, call it what's your secret?

Speaker 5 (12:12):
Years ago? I dated an older man. He was older
than my grandmother.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Actually, wow, that's my mother.

Speaker 8 (12:20):
My mother wind up sleeping with her.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Wow, but your mom didn't know that you slept with him.

Speaker 8 (12:26):
I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
So your mom knew this old this man old enough
to be your grandfather? And how did you feel when
your mom did that?

Speaker 8 (12:35):
Pretty much par for the course.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Oh so she does stuff like that to you all
the time.

Speaker 11 (12:40):
Yeah, I grew up in a pretty abusive household.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Oh I'm sorry to hear that.

Speaker 5 (12:45):
Well, we live, we learned, and we teach.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
What was it about the older gentleman that was attractive
to you?

Speaker 8 (12:53):
Well, he started off as much sugar daddy.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (12:56):
It would help me.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Play bills of the house. But I do have to
say this, he was the best lover.

Speaker 11 (13:02):
I've ever had.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
Okay, but I yes, you appeared on CBS this morning
and you said something that I have on my computer
and it was the universe agrees was a made up mind.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah that's my mantra.

Speaker 8 (13:18):
You've got to believe it too.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Oh well, thank you for Colin.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
I look great daybody You too.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
I like that. Okay, hey, and out him his color?
How are you?

Speaker 11 (13:30):
Hey? How you doing?

Speaker 3 (13:31):
I'm good? You want to tell me and Adam Rodriguez
a secret?

Speaker 11 (13:34):
Yes? So I was on my first day. Right. It
was this dude that I've been dealing with like the
last last eighteen years. He never had six box. I'm
just not gidful, and he was one mini man girl.
How frustrating that he is.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
He probably was so excited. You only did it once.
You didn't give him another chance?

Speaker 11 (13:52):
Will After he left to go to work, I had
to go. I got me a young jant and I
let him finish me off. I maybe I might let
him try.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Man but the off So you had sex with two
guys back to back, But you might get the other guy,
the first guy, another chance.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
I might.

Speaker 11 (14:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (14:08):
He just loved me wrong.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Obviously, Yeah, you wrong real quick.

Speaker 11 (14:14):
He just was frustrating.

Speaker 8 (14:15):
I was trying to get off and he got off, and.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
I was like, oh hell, and no, you know what
you gotta do next time? Make him perform oral first?

Speaker 6 (14:22):
Right?

Speaker 11 (14:23):
But what if you don't know how to do that?

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Oh my gosh, then you got to just give up. Yeah,
but he might have been excited, like you know, sometimes
guys that happens because it's the first time and they
so excited. He can't believe he's there.

Speaker 11 (14:39):
He was just so upsetting because he just so he's
signed to hell.

Speaker 8 (14:42):
And I'm like, oh my god.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
They just put all the love that did you shower
in between?

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (14:49):
Yeah, I got in the shower, walked the door.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
But you know what, I love to hear women speak
about their sexual power and how they because you always
hear about dudes. Yeah she wasn't this? She with that
more power too? You Next, I want to hear about
when you do three on one day.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
Let's go, how you back?

Speaker 12 (15:06):
All right?

Speaker 5 (15:07):
All right?

Speaker 3 (15:08):
For that girl, I'm like, well, take a nap. Thanks
for calling day you too, Well, that was tell us
a secret. Thank you guys for calling eight hundred two
nine fifty fifty. You could still tell us a secret
for the last word. And when we come back, we
got your yea tea, And I want to talk about
this Red Comedy Festival that a lot of comedians got

(15:30):
some checks for and people are upset about it. I
want to get your take, all right, Sure, when we
come back, it's way up it's like the talk like
they Angela like they Angela jee.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Man, she's spilling it all. This is yeaty way up.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yes, it's way up with Angela. Yee. I'm here. Ada
Rodriguez is here, that's right, and it's ye tea time.
We had some breaking news, all right, and so we're
watching everything that's happening with Diddy and it's not looking
like he's going to walk out of there today. Now.
I was telling you that it appears the judges of
set that Ditty has already has some tentative bookings across

(16:10):
Miami starting as early as next week. And these bookings
are basically him. You know, he did this curriculum free
game with Ditty while he was incarcerated, and so he
would be stopping at different places to kind of like
talk to, you know, different people about that. So it's
not like appearances like for fun. It's supposed to be

(16:32):
more educational and going into underserved areas and connecting with
people affected by the criminal justice system. But that's also
you assuming that you're about to get out. So I
guess the judge is not taking too kindly to that.
The judge also has basically say that said that Ditty
does not get the benefit of having accepted responsibility for

(16:54):
his crimes, and that the narrative of freak Ops is
nothing more than voluntary sex between sathing adults was flatly
inconsistent with both reality and any acceptance of responsibility. But yeah,
so Diddy, as you know, has asked to speak and
he's saying prison changed him forever. He talked about the
inhumane conditions, drug threats, a broken washing machine.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
And yeah, you think that he makes the other prisoners
go that are in that free game class, go get
his food for him and cheesecake and time them like
he was doing. You know, you know what this is
so wild. It's just the reality of somebody who has
a voice. There are people in prison, so many black

(17:40):
and Maro people in prison that are wrongfully in prison.
You think about all of the people who've been there
that didn't belong there and hadn't had a voice. And
this man is in there talking about a broken washing machine.
It's just interesting to hear.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
But oh my gosh, listen, I'm not gonna lie. Yesterday
I was thinking that he had a chance. It's yeah,
but you know, today it's looking like the judge, the
main thing is that he's not taking accountability and it
feels like that's what it is. These are not just
free costs like Pete And this is something that also
was going on for over a decade long time. Yeah,

(18:15):
so we're going to see and keep you updated on
what's going on. Now. I want to talk about this
comedy festival, Theriac Comedy Festival that people were very upset
to see some of our top comedians going out to
Saudi Arabia given you know what happens in Saudi Arabia,
and I want you to explain this more to me,
but I know, you know, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Bill

(18:38):
Bill Burr was very vocal about going there. Fluy, Yeah, yeah,
can you can you tell me what this is all about?

Speaker 4 (18:45):
So there is there is a bunch of controversy because
of the conditions and what happens in Saudi Arabia. There
is the murder of Kushogi and that, you know, a
lot of people were very vocal about the disappointment, and
people specifically like Bill Burr because Kevin Hart has never

(19:05):
really been a political comic. Nobody Fluffy doesn't really stand
for anything like that, So people are not really so
you know, shocked about him because you know, I mean,
I didn't have that expectation for him. Yeah, there's not
the expectation. But I think that from someone like Bill Burr,
who speaks, you know, truth, the power, there's the moral police.

(19:28):
I you know, I stand in a very unique place
because I didn't get offered to go there, and I
don't know what I would do. I don't have millions.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
That's d was saying, if you were offered, would you go.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
I mean, my mom has leukemia, like I don't. I
don't have millions of dollars. I'm not in a position
that a Kevin Hart is in and I need money.
So I mean for me to sit here and say
I don't know that I wouldn't do it, I probably
wouldn't be in who I am. But I just don't
sit here and judge people. Do. I think that what's
happening in other places of the world horrible. The Congo

(20:01):
needs attention right now, you know, But America, America, a
lot of the things that people criticize that for to
happen and other places are happening right here right Listen.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
In Canada's they warned people not to come here because
all right, well, just wanted to get that from your
point of view. And when we come back under the radar,
these are the stories that are not in the headlines.
They're flying under the radar. I'm still looking at what
the judge is saying. Now the judge is saying. They're
saying he had an escort urinating Catsy's mouth until she choked.
Her victim impacts statement makes clear she still has nightmare

(20:32):
and flashbacks. All right, his way up, check the news.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
News.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
This in the news that relates to you.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
These stories are flying under the radar, all right, his
way up.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
With Angela Ye, and I'm here with my girl, Ada Rodriguez,
and let's go under the radar. And now a woman
in San Francisco is actually charging people and made a
business and helping them pick out their baby names. Oh wow, Right,
so she charges up to thirty thousand dollars to help
people pick the perfect baby.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Name based on what what's her what are her us?

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Well, she has a quote she calls herself a quote
name nerd, and she already has pick names for more
than five hundred children. She also offers add on services
that include baby name branding and identifying a unique name aesthetic.
She said, there's more to this job than people realize.
Sometimes things are so urgent when she gets a client
that she has to drop everything and help them ride away.

(21:28):
So she's making literally hundreds of thousands of dollars a
year by helping people name their babies.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
It's over and everybody should just start finding their apocalypse
crew because we don't.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
We are cook Why do you say that we are?
How did you name your kids?

Speaker 5 (21:43):
Like?

Speaker 4 (21:44):
I dreamed my daughter's name. Her name came to me
in a dream. And then my son is named after
his father, and their names both have meaning. They have
Arabic names. But yeah, I wouldn't pay thirty stacks to
anybody that would. I would use that for the baby's
college education.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Oh man, you know, I will say one time I
was at the Brooklyn Museum and I was like, you know,
they have the names of all these like great emperors,
And I was like, that would be a good place
to go because there were literally thousands of names on
the wall. I was like, this would be a good
place to come if you wanted to like just look
at names and come up with something. Because I also
understand people want a unique name right at times, but

(22:27):
then sometimes they'll tell you that's not a good thing
to have, like a really different type of name.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
I don't know, especially with when.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Trying to get a job, and then you have ye killing.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
People with Bill Cosby killing people. But I don't know,
would you pay somebody?

Speaker 3 (22:41):
No, I mean my or not.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
My ex sister in law used to. They used to
come to her to name the kids. Yes, that's where
they were in Georgia.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
She was so secreted, like, I'm not going to tell
you the name yet until I don't want anybody to
steal my baby's name because there's not too many unique
things out there. All right, Well, we do have the
way it mix. At the top of the hour, plast
Nicole Arie Parker is going to be joining us talking
about her new entrepreneurial venture, Jim Wrap. That's out right now.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's way up, way up with Angela yee.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
The rooms from industry shade to all of.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Gosp out sending. Angela's spilling that eye.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
All right, it's way up with Angela yee. I'm here,
my girl, Ada Rodriguez is here.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
That's right. What's up, y'all?

Speaker 3 (23:23):
What up? Y'all all right, And Killer Mike recently was
on Club and he talks about a time that he
got caught cheating with a stripper and his wife rolled
up and that's what scared him straight. Here's what he said.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
It was his dancer.

Speaker 12 (23:37):
Man, I just had too much fun at the girl's
spot one time, and man, I got a call when
I got in there. Do say, maybe I don'ta bring
your ass out their girl house right now? I'm gonna
kill both of y'all my little out there. My wife
had my gun coined at me.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
I got in the truck where our school on that
she sa ain't fan. Everyone's so fast.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
My life now being monogamous, got a lot easier after that.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Wow, whatever it is willing, I never want to have
to do that, roll up with a gun and be like,
get out of here.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
It's hard out here in the single street.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
But I got hold on. They've been rocking ever since
because I will say. He don't play about his wife
and she don't play about him. But yes, all right,
Tyler Perry's Sisters is going to be going into season nine,
and that actually starts next week. On Wednesday on BT
they announced that so that's the mid season return for that.

(24:27):
It's all, of course executive produced, directed, at written by
Tyler Perry. Tyler Perry is also going to be starting
opposite Taraji p Henson and Why Did I Get Married Again?
And so get ready for that sequel. You know the
first one came out in two thousand and seven. Yeah,
that's eighteen years ago.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Well, you know Laman did a movie with me and
Lamon Rucker. Yeah, Lamon Rutger did a movie with me
in two thousand and eight. Right on the heels of
that movie.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Oh you know who else is in this? Da Vinci.
He plays in BMF. Yeah, so he's gonna Endy sum Brooklyn.
So so yeah, so shout out to that. And The
Shy is ending with season eight at Showtime. That's a
nice long run, by the way.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
Well you know, I had my deal at Showtime and
one of the executives told me that The Shy is
one of the most successful shows that they've ever had
on Showtime.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
So congratulations. It's one of the longest running Showtime shows
in their history. Alongside Dexter, Homeland, and Weeds. They all
ran eight seasons. The only show that's ran longer was Shameless, Shameless.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Yeah, I watched Shameless. Yeah they said the numbers were astounding.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
That's great.

Speaker 13 (25:33):
I love that.

Speaker 14 (25:34):
You know.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
My girl Linn Whitfield too, was on these last couple
of seasons.

Speaker 13 (25:38):
All right.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Playboy CARDI his tour. According to reports, it's been hard
for him to sell tickets and so they're going to
have to cancel some of those dates. I know Dan,
our producer is disappointed. He's a big fan of Playboy CARDI.
Why are you saying what? Dan? Oh? He got to
punch himself in. But yeah, so we'll see what happens.
Why what, Fanta, You're not You've got a couple of

(26:02):
cool songs.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
But I've seen him performing.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Likes Playboy Card Yeah, people did actually really like that album.
But I think it's also his live performances. Maybe I'm not,
you know, I don't really know what that's about. Joey
Badass in the meantime has abruptly canceled his tour, his
Dark Ara tour, and I Saw Rhapsody was on that
tour with him. She posted guys that being simple, there

(26:24):
are a number of reasons tours get canceled. Ticket sales
was not a reason here relaxed with love. So yeah,
I don't know what the reason is, but he did
just have a baby not that long ago, and he
is getting married, and he's got a lot of life
things going on, so I'm sure, and he's quite responsible,
so I'm sure it's something.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
But I would like to say as a live performer
that when people say ticket sales are low, they always
blame the artists. People cannot afford to buy eggs right now.
It is really a bad The economy is really bad
and people are not selling out like they used to,
big people.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
You know.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
That's a good point. All right, Well that is your
yee te When we come back, it is a new
music Friday. Uh, there's new music out today that we
got to talk about. JT put out her disc record
finally and it felt a little luke warm the response
to it, but we'll talk about it. It's way up.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
This is fresh out of the studio. It's new Music Friday,
A way up with Angela yee.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
All right, it's way up with Angela yee. I'm here
with my girl Ada Rodriguez.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Hey, good morning, good morning, this afternoon now good afternoon.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Oh yeah, you're right, it is afternoon. Now feels like
we've been zipping through things, So let's talk about new
albums out today. The deluxe version of Young Thugs EU
Scooty is out today. We have a snippet of a
song called Safe Here Safe, I know you love that,
you know.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
It sounds like my son loves Young Thugs. It is
amazing how much he loves them. But it sounds like yo,
Young Doug makes laughed like some of the things he said.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Well, he was on with Aiden Ross and he actually
was saying that he wishes that he and rich tomy
Kwan could have settled their differences before rich tomy Kwan passed.
All right, now, also out today. Bryceon Taylor's Solace and
the Vices is out today. By the way, his song
Don't is now certified fifteen times platinum. That's the highest
certified solo R and B song in RIAA history, So

(28:26):
congratulations to him for that. So Disc one to his
album Solace and the Vices is out and here is genuine.
So first the Vices was out already, right, and now
Solace is out, so that's the full project, all right.
Also out today, Kali Ucci sincerely, ps Deluxe Mcjenkins and
email a Murder of Crows terylss Swift, we can't brush

(28:47):
over that. The Life of a Showgirl is out today.
How's that album doing so far? You think it's going
to do well? Of course it is. I'm kidding all right.
Also we said this earlier. JT has put out her
Cardi B dish track. It's not on streaming right now,
but I saw it, you know, surfacing yesterday. I told
you I went for a walk in the park. It
came out while I was in the park. So I

(29:08):
was listening to it while I was walking. Here's here's
a little piece of that now. Cardi B reacted and said,
way too easy, lmao, Alexa play Magnet by Cardi B.
And so that was, you know, Cardi, I guess felt like,
just listen to my old disc track. I'm not even
gonna say nothing new to this one. All right, Well
that is your new music when we come back. Since
I just here, let's do what ask yee with me

(29:30):
and Ida any question you have. The two of us
are going to help you out. Eight hundred two nine
to fifty one fifty. Don't laugh like that. You are
going to help all right. It's way up.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Whether it's relationship or career advice. Angela's dropping facts.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
This is ask gee, what's up?

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Its way up at Angela yee, And I'm here with
my girl Ada Rodriguez, and we have an anonymous caller
calling us up for ask yee. Hey, what's your question?

Speaker 6 (29:57):
I got a baby on the way with our girls.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Monk, you have a baby other there with your girl's mother.
So you're still with your girlfriend?

Speaker 6 (30:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (30:05):
Does the girl know?

Speaker 6 (30:06):
I have not told her yet.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
That's gonna be step one.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
But you're fathering your your girlfriend's sibling.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
And yeah, she wanted to keep it too.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
How long have you been sleeping with her mom?

Speaker 6 (30:17):
Probably about three and a half four months now.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
So your girlfriend's mom hates her daughter.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Yeah, the relationship real safty. They don't get.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Along through will This ain't gonna help.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
I was thinking about trying to like do a little
dinner and bring them both together and break the news
like that.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
I don't know if dinner is the right place, Yeah,
to do that unless you want to get stabbed with
a butter knife.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
Who do you want to be with?

Speaker 6 (30:42):
That's a great question. I'm just you know, because I
love my girl, but it's like, no you don't.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
You can have, you can have.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
You should have love for one.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
And you know if you loved her, you wouldn't have
done that, no judgment.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
But the mama like then there like a little super
mama situation. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
Well, you about to be giving her some money for
that kid. Y'all got together, You're about to pay it
all back. Well, you definitely got to break up with
your girl. You're having a baby with her mom. I
can't see her staying with you. You think she's gonna
stay with you, that's a good point.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
Me or her mad talked about it before and we like,
I mean, she didn't really have no great ideas on
how to break the news either.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
I don't know if you want to tell her, if
the mom should tell, If her and her mom don't
get along, it might be better coming from you. But
she's gonna hate both of you.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
I have the baby.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah, she's not gonna like her sister. There's really no
way around it. You got yourself in a situation where
now all you got to do is man up to
what it is that you've done and wear condoms or
maybe don't sleep at your girlfriend's mom too. Know, but
and now who knows what's gonna happen with you and
the mom. That's a long lifelong responsibility there, but you

(31:49):
might as well just start owning up to what it
is that you've done. Right, When is the baby coming
in about.

Speaker 6 (31:55):
Four or five months? If you think it's any way
that I can work it out with me and my girl,
do you think it's just like it's just over with.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
If she stays with you, she's gonna kill you in
your sleep?

Speaker 6 (32:06):
I hope not.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
No, But I'm just saying I'm putting myself as a
regular human being in her shoes. And you got my
mom pregnant, and I don't even get along with my mom,
and you've been sleeping with my mom the past three
or four months. That's awful for her. And if you
care about her, all you can do now you got
yourself in this situation is don't terrorize this woman's life anymore. Right, Yeah,

(32:32):
let her find somebody that won't do that to her
if you care about her, right, good luck, sir, And
let this just be a lesson learned to you. And
just remember the main thing is if there's a baby
on the way, that's yours handle your business. That comes first. Yeah,
all right, take care? All right, Well that was ask
ye that's very messy. I want to say sorry that

(32:54):
it was so messy.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Yeah, that was. I want to know what happens.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
All right, Well when we come back, this would have
never happened to Nicole Ari Parker. She's going to be
joining us. She's got a new entrepreneurial venture, Jim Raps.
Those are out literally today we'll be talking to her.
But you also know her from Soul Food. You saw
her on Empire. You saw her on just like that
great actress, and she's really sweet and regal. It's way up.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, she's back at it. The Way Up with Angela
ye is on What's up?

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Is Way up with Angela Yee. And this is the
first And you're making me feel so good already. Nicole
Ari Parker is here. Welcome to Way Up.

Speaker 13 (33:36):
Thank you good to be here.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
Man, listen when I tell you just such a legend
as long as you've been in this game. I know
today we're here talking about your entrepreneurship. But I have
to say there was a point where I did a
scene on Empire.

Speaker 13 (33:49):
I know I was to say we work together.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah, that sounds so good. Say that again.

Speaker 13 (33:54):
We worked together.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
We did.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
We work together, guys, and you made me feel so
much more comfortable because that is like a space that
I'm comfortable in. Did you always know this is what
you wanted to do? Like this was your path? Oh?

Speaker 14 (34:06):
Yeah, I graduated from high school at seventeen.

Speaker 13 (34:09):
I got into NYU early.

Speaker 14 (34:11):
I come from a working class family and I knew
I wanted to be an actor, but I decided to
go into the school of journalism that I could quote
unquote fall back on. But second, by the time second
semester hit, I was like, I have to fully commit.
So I called home and my dad was like, look,
if you're gonna do this, you got to promise me
you're gonna go.

Speaker 13 (34:27):
All the way in. So anyway, I got the call
that I got Boogie Nights.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
That was a huge, huge movie. But you said recently
Leonardo DiCaprio said he turned down that role. Wow, and
that was supposed to be his Yeah, and then Mark
Whelbert killed that role. Yeah, that's a great classic movie
to have booked like so early on.

Speaker 14 (34:46):
Yeah, it was an unforgettable experience. You know, we got
to go to a real porn set, in the valley.
He's a point.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Were they filming a porn or did you?

Speaker 13 (34:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (35:00):
Was?

Speaker 14 (35:00):
I went, like you came to a production where I
was in. I went to a production where porn stars
were in and they were prepping and it was a
female director. Oh wow, yes, And like the girls were prepping,
I went into the makeup room to get to know
them and talk because you know, I'm playing a porn star.
And she proceeds to fully shave like this was her
normal she and she wasn't drugged out or any connotations

(35:24):
or had no sense of self. She was totally functioning
adult who loved her job.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Right now, I'm talking to Nicole Arie Parker. You know
her from Soul Food, you know her from Empire, you
know her from And just like that. Some people will
say it's empowering, Yeah, to feel like this is what
I want to do and this is my choice to
do this and this is just a job.

Speaker 14 (35:44):
And I had to like recalibrate myself really like I'm
looking at her and I'm like, what's the big deal?
I mean, I have one too, right, Like after five minutes,
I calmed down. Yeah, you know, I can imagine that
I was gonna get in trouble. Then let me ask
my mom and dad.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
What did I was gonna say, what did your parents
say when that was the first like for you booking
a role as a porn star where they concerned.

Speaker 13 (36:07):
Yeah, but he edited it really well. I think you
saw boob.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
But I mean, but I mean even when you tell
them like, hey, guys, I booked this role.

Speaker 13 (36:15):
I set it up like I'm gonna do a movie
with Burt Reynolds.

Speaker 10 (36:18):
Okay, okay, it was okay, yeah, you know, but you know,
I have a funny story about my mom, Like she
got a call the like two in the morning.

Speaker 14 (36:30):
And my mom's from the South, and she's like, don't
call my house two in the morning.

Speaker 13 (36:33):
If it's not about my kid, don't call me.

Speaker 14 (36:35):
So her my aunt, her younger sister, he was Pam,
and she called and she said, Jean, the lady at
my job said she saw Nikki in the movie and
she showed it. My mom said, Pam, if the lady
saw NICKI evidently showed it.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Good answer, man, Good night.

Speaker 13 (36:56):
My dad, I was like twenty five or something. I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
I was a grown up.

Speaker 13 (36:59):
I was a grown up.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
I love that you have this product. It's a hair accessory.
So tell me about Jim raps Well. I made it
twelve years ago in my kitchen. I just needed to
make a sweat band that worked.

Speaker 13 (37:11):
That's it.

Speaker 14 (37:12):
And to anyone out there entrepreneurs, I just had an idea.
I took the first step, and I didn't have a
business degree. I didn't know where to get a manufacturer.
I had finally sown my first prototype. I had made
it myself, and then I had a business partner and
I met like five different manufacturers. I found one that
could understand what edges were and why I needed this

(37:36):
to be like this. I made three different styles. I
wanted one that was a full bandana. I wanted guys
to be able to use it. And then it took
off like I had my finger on the pulse of
something that it wasn't just for me, it was for
all of us, you know. And I did research on
women's health and I just got more and more involved
in inspiring us to take care of ourselves. And I

(37:58):
know that a large part of the reason we don't
take care of ourselves because we spend so much money
on our hair.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Listen, and when I tell you, like there's times that
I'm like, man, I really do want to work out,
but I don't feel like having to wash my hair again.
I don't feel like having to do this, or if
you have your hair straight and like you want to
make sure that you don't sweat it out. All of
those things matter a lot.

Speaker 14 (38:16):
Yeah, but at a certain point, I got a chance
to meet the Surgeon General. It was a black woman
at the time, doctor Benderbin. She told me that like
seventy percent of the things that affect us as women,
especially women of color, are preventable.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
That's a fact.

Speaker 14 (38:32):
And she said they were preventable by being more invested
in our diet and exercise.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Right now, I'm talking to Nicole Irie Parker. You know
her from Soul Food. You know her from Empire, you
know her from and just like that, you know, I
was thinking since you said you met Boris on Soul Food.
One of the themes also for Just Like that was
like a power struggle and a marriage and a relationship.
And you guys are both really successful, like in your
own right, what is that balance like at home when

(38:58):
you're with somebody who is equally as you know, yolked
as you are, but also equally as ambitious.

Speaker 14 (39:04):
You know, anybody to tell you married with kids is
not easy or cookie cutter. I think there has to
be a couple of things baseline that you both want
to have, like whether you're a lawyer and a doctor
being married crazy schedules, whether you're an accountant and a hairdresser,
total crazy schedules.

Speaker 13 (39:22):
So there has to be one or two.

Speaker 14 (39:24):
Things that y'all are just just agree on, like I
want to be married to you and I want to
have children with you, so you everything, all the craziness
works around whatever your baseline is.

Speaker 13 (39:37):
And that's really all I can say.

Speaker 14 (39:38):
I mean, we've had fights, we've not spoken to each other,
we've disagreed on parenting.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
I mean it's been twenty years, right, twenty years. No way,
that's not going to happen in the course of twenty years.
Oh my god, full on.

Speaker 13 (39:51):
And he's so different than me.

Speaker 14 (39:53):
He is German and Ghanaian and I am from the
inner city of Baltimore. Like he's very calm, he's very organized,
he's not loud.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
But you, now, how can people get these gym raps
to just letting people know where they can find it.
Jim rep dot Com well that makes sense, Jim rep
dot com. I'm on it. By the way, we're gonna
be ordering those because i can see myself looking.

Speaker 13 (40:18):
Cute and I'm going to send you a gift box.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
All right. I'm still ordering though, thank It sounds like
a great gift in time for the holidays. Yes, and
you got to come back up and see us now
that you're here, there's no excuses. I will always for you,
all right, thank you? All right, Well, thank you to
the cole Arie Parker for joining us. You can watch
that Fuot interview on my YouTube channel Way Up with
Ye And when we come back, you guys have the
last word.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
They up the phone taping to get your voice heard.
What the word is? Here's the last word on Way
Up with Angela Yee?

Speaker 3 (40:46):
What's up this way up, Budy Angela Yee. Thank you
so much to Ada Rodriguez for guest hosting today.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Thank you for having me here. I've been stunned the
whole show from the things that we've meant talked.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Listen, Ida be in her own world like I'm purposely
disconnecting and she's like, oh my god, and then I.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Click on and do this like yeah, I got my
girlfriend's mothers pregnant.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
You're like, what, sorry, yeah, but you know what it happens. Okay,
life is a title of Perry movie. Yeah, but thank
you also to Nicole Ari Parker for joining us. Make
sure y'all check out those gym wraps, a great gift.
I did too. As the holidays are coming up. I
think the right apparel will make me work out.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Yeah. Always, always, a new outfit makes me move.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
I agree. I agree with that. And we are still
waiting to find out what's gonna happen with Diddy. I
know the defense just spoke. They're taking a lunch break,
so we'll know more after two fifteen. So that's why
we don't have the update yet. We're waiting to see
what that sentence is gonna be. It's looking like it's
gonna be about seven years if we could guess right
now from what the judge is saying. The guidelines are

(41:52):
that he plans to follow. I don't know if he's
been swayed by the defense and the kids coming up
and talking and Diddy's attorney crying and all of that.
So we shall see. But I'll tell you this, I'm
going to go do ABC News Live with Deborah Roberts
today and so that should be interesting.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
You'll know the verdict.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
I'll know the verdict by then. Ida, any last words
before we give the last words to our listeners. One
more thing too. At the State Farm Arena December eighteenth,
there's going to be jingle ball for a ninety six
point one that be in Atlanta. All tickets are in
sale today right now, so make sure you go to
ticketmaster dot com. You can see Big X, the Plug,
ky Lonnie, Jermaine dupri and friends, Little John and Friends,

(42:32):
Mariah the Scientist, Molly Nelly and more to be announced.
That's amazing. All right now, any last words from you, Idem.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
The Scientist, I got shows, come see me do stand
up before it's against the law.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Oh, I'm gonna be interested to see what you're about
to talk about, Aida Rodriguez. But people can follow you
Funny Ida.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
At Funny Ida Ai d A and I just want
to reiterate one of the callers said on the Call
to Day, the universe agrees with a made up mind.
So make your decision about what you want and move
toward it. Stop listening to influencers on the internet, period.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
All right, it's your show. You have the last word, heyl.

Speaker 8 (43:10):
I was calling to shine the light on my mother
and my sister. There's just some little country girls from
Alabama who went to California and trying to do big things.
My mom is a nurse and she has a home
healthcare business and in the military, but she has her
own transportation business. But as Susie and Lysandra, thank you Angela.

Speaker 15 (43:27):
By yes, angel Law, I want to shine a light
on my son, Cameron Turner. I got really sick and
had some heart problems and it came from New York
and still is taking care of me. And he's you know,
he's very young. He couldn't join anything else. So I
definitely I listened to you all the time. I want
you to shine the light on him because he just

(43:48):
doves sick. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Way up where Angela, Ye, we turn it out way
up