BAM | Bill, Alex & Mike: Concerts, Musicians, and More

We can sit tomorrow. I know. We're going to New York, I think, tomorrow. What? What's in New York? You going to Jay-Z? No. Look at this guy. I wanted to. What? Go. Tell us what you're doing. Welcome to the show. We're about to find out what's going on in Morgan's life, y'all. Guys, don't worry. No, I'm just kidding. One of my best friends from Cincinnati is visiting her sister in New York this weekend, so I was thinking about going after work. It's nothing crazy. It's nice out. No, there's a lot going on in New York. All the people. She's here. You got the 30th anniversary of the album. You got the shows going on. They said the ticket prices dropped. They did. I'm not going to lie. If I saw a cheap price, I would get tickets for Sunday, for sure. All right. Well, look, y'all. Morgan is still here. I'm still here. She's been here since yesterday. Well, nope. That's a lie. Yeah. She's been here since like 5 this morning. 2.30. All right. Whatever. She said get it right. Remember her hours. She's been on every show, and she was like, yo, Mike, can I hang and do this show too? Why not? That's exactly how it went. Hang out. You know what I mean? I don't doubt it. You want in, you in. Like, it's easy. But I did hear, because there's somebody, well, it was on Threads, but they were talking about they're in New York right now, and they're like, it's crazy. Oh, there's so many people here. I know. Like, there's a lot of folks. That's what I'm saying. It sounds good in theory, and then it's like, oh, maneuvering around the city. Because. Like, this is, they're not all in for the Jay-Z show. Yankee Stadium can only hold but so many people. There's a lot of events and pop-ups and things surrounding the Jay-Z show, so even if you're not going, it's so good to be in the mix. And, you know, I don't know, if you're single and stuff, that means there's lots of opportunities. Here y'all go. I'm just saying. Because I was trying to sanitize what the mess was. They were like, ladies, this is where they are. Come to New York. They are going to the Jay-Z thing. That's how y'all get yourselves in trouble. No, I'm staying here. You know what I mean? Go head out there and chase them if you want to. It's not chasing them. It's placing yourself in the right position. Exactly. Look. It's all about placement. You know a lot of these cats out here be frontin'. That's everywhere, though. Right. So you be careful is all I'm saying. You go out there, you open yourself up to these conversations, only to find out he just had enough to get to the show. And he ain't even going to the show. He just up here. Right? But that's what she do in LA. Anybody have tickets? I do have a friend who accidentally got handicap seats, and she was just rushing trying to get them. That's a win. But there's no actual seat, because it's for wheelchairs. There's those. So she's like. So she gotta just stand. Right. So she's like, if anybody willing to stand. And I'm like, even if you are, though, isn't that a bad look? Because they'll be like. Right. That's what I gotta say. The other side is, if a handicap shows up, they're going to be like, yo, we need that spot. But they didn't buy the handicap seats. I know. I feel like Mike would rent a wheelchair. I'm not going to rent a wheelchair. That's tacky. Because there are people who do the scooters who don't need them. And I don't like those people. Could you bring a fold up chair? No, not in Yankee Stadium. They're not going to let you bring a folding chair. You're what? Listen, you never know. No, but it's going to. It should be a good show. But they said, yeah, I guess the scalpers bought up all the tickets in advance. And now it's show day. It ain't like I'm still sitting on these tickets. So they said the prices have dropped drastically for the tickets. I would love to see them. Because I miss the Roots picnic. Oh, yeah. But drastically is because those tickets were expensive. Even drastic can still be like $800, $900. I've seen $300 tickets. I saw $300. At a $200 level. You know what I'm saying? Why didn't that happen to me for Beyonce? I did that. Everybody talks about that. Wait till the show day. And all hours before it would be so cheap. Oh, my God, I got these tickets so cheap. So I did that. Went to Vegas with no ticket for the Cowboy Carter tour. Yes. And I'm like, oh, they said the tickets going to drop. They said the tickets going to drop. I was out so much money. Well, I think Beyonce is a different show than the Jay-Z show. Like, I think the Beyonce fans. But it was a regular tour. This is like an anniversary special. I know. But it's still it's like it's a rap show at the end of the day. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's a rap show at the end of the day. Like, we just, you know, look, and that's not knocking Jay-Z. He's had a great career. I'm a huge fan. You know what I'm saying? But I'm like, at the end of the day, it's like, dude, he's a rapper. What would you pay to see home right now? Like, if you were going to that show this weekend and you wanted a last minute ticket? I am, but I wouldn't have paid more than $200 to go to the show. That's how I feel. And I think $200 is stretching it. What? For Jay-Z. I'm just saying me as an individual. I'm not saying that's not a fair price. I'm just saying like, yo, like. You can't go back. For context, Morgan, we were at dinner this week. He had a salad with an egg on it. He dropped a piece of egg and said, man, that's $7 with an egg right there. Of course, this man's not going to pay more than $200. It was like a $30 salad that had two eggs on it. Like, you know what I mean? I'm just saying, this is what we're dealing with. Yeah, you're right. But nah, you know, I see Jay-Z at Millersville open for KRS-One in 1994. I don't even know. I know. Right, you don't even know. Millersville is a college out in Central Pennsylvania. He went out there? He was brand new. He wasn't brand new. But I knew I was a fan of Jay-Z before the Reasonable Doubt album and all of that. He was a guest. He had a song on the Jazzo album. And so I was a fan. I just liked him as a rapper. And so I went to see KRS-One. Oh my God. I wasn't going to say that. We just got it. We were like, uh, yeah. Boogie Down Productions, Criminal Minded. Like, none of this stuff is ringing a bell for y'all. If we heard something, you probably know. I'm sure if we heard it. Geez, I'm about to just end the show. What? Give us a song. Go get some adults to sit with. Fine, that means we can start the weekend early. Let's go. We out here. What's the song? Give us a song. You're not helping us at all. God, there's so many. Criminal Minded was a huge hit. That was his album. It was a song in the album. How's it go? Aw, you're not a real fan. I am a real fan, but I didn't have to anticipate. This was the conversation. I mean, it was 87, 88 when these albums came out. You know what I'm saying? But I mean, he is hip hop royalty. So I figured you would know. Of KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions. Scott LaRock was one of the first. He was his DJ. He was one of the first hip hop people to actually be killed. So it was a real tragic thing in the hip hop community. It was like, yo, Scott LaRock got shot. If you Google Scott LaRock, that's probably the first thing to come up. If I'm being honest, unless they were mentioned in the movie Brown Sugar, I probably won't know. Slick Rick, he was in there. So where'd you fall in love with hip hop? That same era. Were they mentioned in that movie? I don't know. I was in and out of Brown Sugar, so I'd have to go back and see. Oh, what? I love Brown Sugar. That's my favorite movie, Alex. Mine too, it's so good. I can quote that. Now that we've disappointed him to start off the show. No, it reminds me how old I really am. Neither one of you guys have ever heard him. I actually just got going to a KRS-One concert. What'd you do? Nothing. This was the 80s. Were you wearing something? No, it was just like the bum rush was in full effect in the 80s in New York. Did they get anything off you? My headphones, but we was out there rumbling on this. What would that be then, Sony? With the sponge things on the side? Yeah, they was a big joint. They got them. They wasn't even mine, they was my homeboy. But it was like early Walkmans, everybody was out there. You know what I'm saying? Have a little hip hop tape popping. We went to USA Roller Skate rig to check out KRS-One. Oh, he's so excited. Boogie Down Productions, man. We was on the train and some cat ran up behind me and punched me in the back of the head. Oh my God, turn, wait. Yeah, I told you, I got jumped. What do you think happens when you get jumped? I didn't know they hit you from the back. That seems like a little punch. I thought they just patted you down for your stuff. Nah, nah, nah, nah. We was all out there fighting on the subway and everything, man. It was crazy, man. You're like, this is the best time of my life. That's wild. My homies was fighting, they homies was fighting. It was just a bunch of us on the subway hoping nobody fell on the tracks. Oh my God. Yeah, this was real in the 80s, man. Hard Knock Life, QJZ. You know what I'm saying? It was real in the 80s, man. But anyway, nah, he did Millersville and he opened for KRS-One. And it was funny because nobody really knew who he was. I was like, yo, Jay-Z is on. Why ain't nobody coming up to the stage and sing? What song was that then? This was the Reasonable Doubt album. This is the album that he celebrated. Yeah, it was 30 years ago. This is the Reasonable Doubt album. And nobody really knew him. The Can't Knock the Hustle album, all of that. They was just waiting for KRS-One to come on. I remember this girl, she actually got in with him. She's like, yo, I snuck in. Some dude named Jay-Z helped me get in. Look, he signed my dollar. I was like, you don't even know who the dude is. Wow. And now look, that dollar's probably worth. Right, now y'all know him and know KRS-One. Boy, how has the world turned. That is actually crazy when stuff like that happens. Who was it? I seen The Roots opened for Mad Lion. You probably don't know who Mad Lion is. See what I'm saying? Right, The Roots had one single. They opened for Mad Lion at the same university, as a matter of fact. Millersville. And you know what I'm saying? Nobody knows Mad Lion now. Just me. Our little hip-hop historian. Hip-hop history for y'all, man. So we done blew the whole first block, man. Give me y'all a little hip-hop history. Go do some research, man. Okay, great. So, when did you fall in love with hip-hop? Now I gotta watch that movie. So we gotta take a quick break, man. We'll come back, maybe we'll talk about some of these topics. Maybe we'll talk about Borg is running around New York City this weekend. I don't know. Alex going to the Swingman Classic. We'll talk about something. I'm going to bed. We'll talk about something. Give us two minutes. We'll be back. Alex and Mike on the airwaves, giving what you like. Topics on fleek, 11 o'clock every day of the week. On Fox. I'm set up. Somebody gotta know when this is set up. Guys, I'm watching The Wire for the first time. And I just finished Season 3. So I'm over here trying to dissect this whole... I guess, is this still a spoiler if it's like 20 years later? I don't know. How long has it been in the show? It's been so long that I even forgot. I needed you to... I'm getting reminded like you ain't no KRS-One. And for The Wire fans, in Season 3, we all know Stringer Bell. You know, what's his name? Idris Elba's character. Woody Harrelson. Woody Harrelson is a white dude. Every time I do this... I did this yesterday, too. So at the pivotal moment, when they all end up overlooking the rooftop and they're like, oh, remember us? We were boys. And we knew something was going on. And he said, Stringer was like, I have to go. I have a meeting tomorrow. He said, OK. He said, yeah, cool. What time is that meeting? And you know it wasn't... You don't normally ask that. And even Stringer was like, uh, 12. Uh, uh, uh, uh. 12? He said 12, yeah. And I'm like, OK, well, he just gave him a fake time. He reacted on the whole final episode. Because that's what made me mad. You knew something was up. And he's like, oh, I ain't bad. And then he still went at 12. Like, what were you thinking? Why would he ask that time and then get shot and killed? Listen, it's a drama. He was smarter than that. What do you want? He was a mastermind. It makes no sense. I never watched it. I started watching it. They never want the drug dealer to win? But they both drugged him. You know what I'm saying? It's just how it works. You ever watch it? What's the joy with Wesley Snipes? Oh, John left. So was he just flustered and he told him? It made no sense. You ever watch UC Juice? Oh, yeah. You saw Juice? Isn't that the movie that comes on BET all of a sudden? Does it come on BET? I'm just trying to figure out how far back we can go before I hit the speed bump again. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to hit another speed bump with references. So I'm trying to figure out how far back we can go before I hit another speed bump. Juice is good. What was the one with Wesley Snipes? Oh, Too Long Fu. No, not that one. I don't know why it's leaving me now. What is it? I can picture it. It's not Boys in the Hood. Yes, I am. With Chris Washington. I don't like you light-skinned moves anyway. And he stabs him in the hand. Oh, my gosh. I'm Googling. Yeah, don't remember that scene. Why is it leaving me? That's going to come to me. But anyway. Well, I'm stressed about it. All right, you figure it out. No, I'm stressed about this scene. Like how he died after all that. He's in control of everything. This man changing SIM cards left and right just to make calls. And he gonna really tell him the time he's walking to the meeting. Like it makes no sense. Unless he was like, eff it, I'm going down. Listen, it's a movie, Alex. It's not a TV show. You get immersed in these shows. You do. And they say it's the greatest TV show in history. What? They just needed the plot to twist. I don't know if I agree with it being the greatest TV show in history. Everybody says that. I know, I know, I know. Or one of the top dramas. It was a very good drama. I will agree with that. I should watch it. I'm finicky. You should. It starts off a little slow. That's why I couldn't get through. But once it speeds up and you in there. And then you have to get through season two, which was fine. It just was really different. But then season three has been popping. I'm like, ooh, this is great. Which streaming platform is it on? HBO. OK. Nino Brown? You know Nino Brown? That's the movie. That's the character in the movie. I just can't call his name. And somebody's going to text me and be like, yo, Mike, you can't call the movie. Like, no, Nino Brown. I'm sure we're going to get lots of texts here. Just Google movie with Wesley Snipes, Nino Brown. And I'll get you the name of the movie. Well, also, my friend Jim, he said, sounded the police when we were talking about KRF. Right, that's what I said. And once we started playing it, I was like, oh, yeah. I know you ain't talking about no Jim Driscoll. No. My friend, Mike Driscoll. With the KRF references. My boss Jim texted me. Right. Shout out to Jim. You know what I'm saying? Look, man, you two are a mess, man. What are we doing? Where are we going? What's the topics? We have none. This is crazy. I like to play this game with Mike because I know he stresses looking up topics. And he puts them together. And I come here and I make sure we throw all the topics. Because 90 percent of them I don't care about anyway. I just be trying to have something for the show. Or they're fake and you don't know it. Right. Or the AI and Alex is like, Mike, that's not real. So I got to throw it out anyway. No, I can see that happening. So I just don't end up being what it is, man. But I personally like the conversation. So I don't care. You know what I'm saying? This is like, this is good energy, man. Well, what about the Chris Brown line? All right. So the Chris Brown. Because what are they for? I don't even know what's upstairs. Chad, we don't know nothing. Just roll a Chris Brown video. So this is Cleveland, Ohio. Look at these lines that get into the Chris Brown show. And I'm looking at this and I'm thinking there is no way. Now, these people paid money. So this is when y'all talk to me about how much would I pay for a concert? What? When I think about what these people. Ain't nobody on that line played less than $250 for the ticket. No, that's actually crazy. That's probably the G pop line. Even that. That's a $200 ticket. Easy for Chris Brown and Usher. Yeah. That's a $200 ticket. $200, $250 ticket minimum. Easy. And this is what I got to deal with. Well, if they're filling up the whole stadium, this makes sense to me. So you comfortable in that environment? You have to get. I mean, you have to get in somehow. I'm not doing that. I mean, this is Cleveland. It don't look like they have what we have at the link where you don't have to do anything. You just walk through in their scanners. We are privileged in that we ain't got to take our stuff out. I don't know. I just need to be treated better for that kind of money. That's all I'm saying. It's just like I look at the car in the middle of the street. Yeah. I don't even know how you got there. Imagine I would be livid. This is just insane. When I seen it, I was like, this is this is. And look, I've seen I haven't seen Chris Brown. Have you seen Chris Brown before? I would like to get to a Chris Brown. I have not. Now I've seen Usher. Usher puts on a good show. I think I'm gonna go to the one in Houston since they're not coming to Philly. I was trying to think of a cool city to see them. Yeah. Texas, baby. Yeah, I've never been to Texas or Texas. Neither have I. What is happening? I am offended. It's overrated. I had this conversation with your pops, too. How can you say it's overrated if you've never been? Your pops was like I told him I didn't eat no pork. He said, don't bother coming. If you can't appreciate its value, then yeah, don't come. Is it New Jack City? New Jack City. Have you ever seen New Jack City? Oh, yes. I haven't seen it, but I know. I've seen busy beats. We're aware of New Jack City. I know of it. I think that's also on BET a lot. Have you ever seen Set It Off? Yeah. I'm getting DMs. Tamika just DMed me and she's very disappointed. She's like, how do y'all not know? No way you don't know these rap legends. Chaos One is a must. I'm sorry. All right, look. Before y'all keep abusing my people here, we're gonna take another break. We'll come back on the other side. And we'll talk about Sweetie. Is it Sweetie? Who's the one with the spinnet? With who? It's not Sweetie. Young M.A. Take us to a break. They tried to ruin Wesley, man. Wow. With the tax evasion deal, man. He's going to run and they want to lock him up and send him to jail. And I'm like, come on, man. He's like a superhero. He was Blade. Or he could pay his taxes. I'm sure it was the accountant's fault. Always the accountant's fault. He'd have the right people around him. Wesley ain't know nothing about that. They showed up at his door. They did the same thing. Didn't Red Fox go to jail for it? Did he? I know that he had a tax issue. I don't know if he went to jail or not. Oh, Lord, I'm seeing more DMs from people. New Jack City, New Jack City. Right, see what I'm saying? We ain't going to be able to go to the cookout. Poetic justice, y'all seen Poetic Justice? Okay, I'm checking. If there's a love story in it, we've probably seen it. Oh, Jason's lyric? Yeah. I remember seeing that scene with him in the field and the flowers. I was like, oh, I ain't never seen something like that. Y'all seen all the soft hood videos. No, Boys in the Hood. You seen Boys in the Hood? Yeah, The Hood. I mean, The Wood. Does that count? I don't know if that counts. But I love The Wood. Me too. What else is there? Do you see Panther with Kadeem Hardison? I've seen Black Panther. Oh, my God. Oh, Lord. That's a good one. Have you seen it, Alex? Panther? I have not. With Kadeem Hardison? I know, yes. He's from a different world, right? The Flip Up Glasses. I love him. There's a lot of good movies. You see The Mac? Now I'm going way back. See, now he's just trying to trip us up. These are Blaxploitation flicks that came out before I was going to college. What about Meteor Man or something? Did you see Meteor Man? Yeah, I seen that. What about Hollywood Shuffle? Yeah, I love me some Robert Townsend. Now we talking. These are the predecessors to those movies, man. You should go check them out. You see Uptown Saturday Night? I have not seen it. You see Kai Comes to Harlem? No, I haven't seen it. Now he's just going and going. Have you seen Boomerang? Yes, I've seen Boomerang. That's also on BET Live. All right, look. The Witch McCall. Spin That. All this talk about The Spin That. You rock to that joint? Yeah, I love that song. You a scammer? Nope, it's catchy. You looking for what? You going to New York this weekend? Maybe in New York tomorrow. You might come up with a scammer. I'm staying away. But listen, run that India Ari sound real quick. She looking for it. Wrongly reported on some of these blogs that I am calling for a boycott of the song of the summer. Everything has a frequency. People are like, it's just a song. No, nothing is just anything. Everything has a frequency. Music. Music is pure frequency. It is sound frequency. And when you put sound together with words and it's rhythmic, you get inside of people's subconscious mind. And that is the power of a song. It has power. Do you agree with that? Over you. You agree with that? That songs have power? Yeah, and they get inside your subconscious mind. And they have power over you. Yeah, I mean, I can see that. Because it's like you're listening to it, you're saying the words. It's like, I can see that. I can see it too. But I don't know. I've never been affected by a song where I'm like, oh, I'm going to, I don't know. What have you? Like people go to church, they get affected by gospel. That's true. You know what I'm saying? I had a homie who used to hustle. He's like, yo, Mike, man, every time I went out to do a deal, it was certain music I would listen to. Because it made me inspired. He was doing what kind of deal? Like Philly? Oh, God, I said he used to hustle. Let's just leave it right there, Alex. Wait a minute, we're not talking about business deals, are we? Briefcases and boardrooms? Isn't it like that right there? Yes, it might have been a briefcase involved. It may not have been a boardroom. I remember, this week I was in an Uber and the Uber driver was sharing like stuff they used to do. And they said they used to smuggle or something. I'm like, oh, did you swallow it? He was like, hold on now. If you're going to tell a story, tell it all. I want to know. Speaking of KRS-One, that's the reason why I don't eat red meat anymore. He had a song called, it was called Beef. And he challenged you to stop eating red meat because he talked about all the drugs that they would shoot the cows up with. And how those drugs, you know, then there was drugs, you know what I mean? The antibiotics and all that stuff. They slaughtered a cow. They freeze the meat. And now all those drugs, you go buy it and you eat it. And now all that impurities are in your system. You haven't had a burger? If you think I'm lying, you're addicted to it. And if you think I'm lying, try to quit. It took me 17 years from the time I heard that song to the time I stopped eating red meat. But I started the challenge when I first heard the song. It took you 17 years? It took me probably 17 years to finally be like, yo, I'm done with red meat. What was the final thing? It was just a process. I was weaning myself off of it. I was like, cold turkey wasn't an option. Yeah. But not literally the turkey. Now all it is is cold turkey. Cold turkey doesn't count? That's white meat? That's not red meat. I didn't stop eating meat. I'm sure everything got it in it. But it was just the song was a challenge. And I was like, wow. And it took me all those years from probably 16, 15 years old till I was probably 28. But you still be going to stay 48. But I don't eat seafood. I'm messing with you. Hey, look, we got to take one more break. We'll be back, y'all. Got real serious? Sweet. Wow. Yeah, that song get in your head. Don't fret. You know you be singing it. I'll be singing it. Do you? Yes, it's a good song. No, you don't. It's because he's the one who came up and brought the songs to us. I didn't come up with it. I said brought the songs to us. But it is catchy. Somebody else stopped me the other day. I think it was Judea. It was like, I really like y'all song. So Dennis stopped me one day. He's like, that's a good song for y'all show. That's right. Talk it up. Look, we got 30 seconds. So tell them where to find you, Morgan, outside of New York City. Outside of New York City. You can find me on Instagram at MTV Morgan and TikTok MTV Morgan. Alex Holly TV on Instagram and Facebook. Alex Holly Fox 29 on. Oh, wait, I'm getting them all wrong. Alex Holly TV. You'll find it. We're going to do a hip hop lesson. We're going to do an Instagram lesson, all that. We'll be back on Monday. See y'all later.