
RSMS Hour 4 | Mary J. Blige recalls being hurt by an idol
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The Hot Spot also highlighted Mary J. Blige opening up about a painful early-career encounter with an unnamed idol who criticized her appearance and vocals—a moment she says deeply hurt her but ultimately helped shape her resilience and legendary career.
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He's got so much pressure speaking of pressure. Houston, Texas, STD stats at the at the spring break, chlamydia, 31,000 cases, 406 cases, Alfredo. What are you saying, Alfredo? Well, not in a sentence as you see here, not saying that nothing referred to you. Oh, okay. We just talking for reading the news. I can't. All right, I can't. Gunner Rea is up to 12,935 cases that's been reported. So Gunner Rea, those numbers probably are going to go up because that's that's going to go up because you're going out the depth to go see somebody. Oh, yeah, for that. Oh, man, nobody just just got no what did they call it? They're just not sitting around. Gunner Rea, active. Yeah, yeah. Gunner Rea, you shooting five at this point. Oh, and a simple list is of 5,670 reported cases. So you got to get you got to go see somebody about that in
HIV is up around 33,000 between 33 and 35,000. Oh, whatever. But yeah, chlamydia and gunner Rea is up. Oh, wow. Or under six cases gunner Rea. Because anybody got no a moxicillin just sitting in the fridge. Sitting in their house. Yeah, I'm looking at this. It's like spring break equals more casual hookups and you're right. Chlamydia and gunner Rea are the ones that are They're making casual hookups. That's the net thing out there, boy. Yeah, all the potential. If you don't have a condom, you know, use a subway bag. Subway bag, you got to go to a sock. You're twisty ties. The braids twisty ties. Yeah. Wax paper, put some on. Wax paper. Yeah. The way the paper are, slide off of it or something. Oh, you know, it's really good. The dry cleaning plastic. Yeah. That's sick.
You know, it is good advice because it does say. Put a lot of crisco on you. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I'll bring them. You're right. It does say simple prevention. Use condoms every time. It's great, but not what you are saying. There you go. All right, y'all, this man-law violation time. Oh, especially. What you got this one? You love the olive oil. All right. So, yeah, that's not funny. Man-law Monday, man-laws. The book is out right now, man. You can go to Amazon.com and you can go to Amazon.com and just put in man-laws. That's the first thing it's going to pop up. Is the brand new man-laws book. So you can go to get that on Amazon right now. Let's jump into some brand new man-laws, though. While we're talking about it, two men can out- Well, two men can walk together in a park for exercise. That's fine. They cannot stop at the playground to swing together. Okay, you're right. They can't stop at the playground to swing. I don't care how fun swinging is. And swinging is still fun when you're grown,
but damn it, two men cannot do it together. I swung with some kids, definitely. You can swing with kids. You can swing with kids. You cannot swing with another swing. You and Rocky walking through the park to get your exercise, get your rep, get your steps in, y'all cannot do it. But that's for a happy thing, that ain't it, man. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's not like a happy thing. Yeah, it is happy. But there's another word for happy. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if there's anything wrong with you. You grow a man's swing. No, we ain't swinging on the same swing. But you have to, oh, oh, oh. You got to skip a swing. You can't swing. Even if you can't swing right next to a man, but you skip a swing and leave it here. Y'all are swinging. Let's get the ultimate man to do the same. Super day. No, super day. Hold on, say what? No man of mine can be swinging next to another man. I'm sorry, I skipped a swing. Oh, you can still, no, no, no. I agree, it's, I would just see my husband. Yes, we slang together, who goes, I can't, okay. Look at who agree. Look at who agrees.
It would have to be a date me and him, not him and him. So if it's a date, it's cute. If you're out walking with your home boy, y'all walking past the park and y'all can't say, hey, man, let's swing. Those are, this hand out memory. This hand out is a violation. Just a man of thought, man, let's swing. Bringing back childhood memories, I'm trying to figure out why y'all wanna swing. Okay, let me walk past the park. One y'all swing, you're one y'all get on the slide if you wanna go back to the childhood. One y'all get on the monkey bar and then somebody swing. You're gonna be swinging. Yeah, it was. But we're not swinging like, okay, look. Rock. You gotta swing over there. Yeah, it's one no one last time you swung right. Hey, doll Say man, so what think about you gotta take turns think about it. You gotta you gotta pump your head Hey, you okay? Swing you gotta pump your legs to get going with the swinging two guys doing that together Let them look right. It's like a race. Don't It made you to race. No, no, no, you can swear to God, but above y'all got on flip-flops
Cuz when you then you got on some shorts and then when she's swaying you gonna crack them shorts Go on. Yeah, no, they're gonna they're gonna get real bulky walking past this way. I don't know how to go here, man Don't touch your boy to come push you from behind I do the hot dog All right, everybody morning sunrise right here. Happy is good morning. Good morning, Ricky It's Monday, March 23rd here's what's going on in the news President Trump is backing off his threat to obliterate Iran's a power plants if this trade of Armoose was not reopened within 24 hours now Iran Refused to back down warning it would then target US and allied energy infrastructure if attacked now Trump says the US and Iran have had
Quote very good and productive talks toward resolving tensions and the US is postponing any strikes on Iranian energy strikes our sites There that is for five days while discussions continue in other news Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says TSA wait times are about to get even worse as the partial government shut down drags on So I think as we look forward to Friday that's been the next paycheck should come and if this If this Homeland Security funding isn't resolved I think you're going to see more TSA agents has become the Thursday Friday Saturday of next week They're going to quit or they're not going to show up He's also defending the idea of sending ICE agents into airports to help operations and White House borders are Tom home and says ICE are already in the airports ICE agents I've received a high-level training And you know the ICE agents are saying that many airports across the country already They do a lot of investigation, criminal investigations, smog and airport
Elsewhere Cuba's deputy foreign minister says their country stays ready Our country has historically been ready to mobilize as a nation as a whole for military aggression But we truly hope that it doesn't occur We don't see why we would have to occur and we find no justification whatsoever Why would the government the United States force its country To take military action against a neighboring country like you Last week President Trump called the island of failed a nation and said that the U.S. would have Quote the honor of taking Cuba Trump went on to say I think I can do anything. I want with it That's quote bring up on these stories and more go to Ricky Smiley morning show calm now. Here's a lick its ports Lotty the sports genius is in the building Here we go eight point nine to play Sturge with the catch Sturge bounce pass to the corner for garrist for three Leaves it underneath
I know for the first time since 1999 We'll head to the sweet 16 as they knock off the defending national chance March madness and full motion man as you just heard I went ahead into the sweet 16 Kentucky It's out already man as they worse loss since 1972 They got 20 piece by Iowa State over there on the women's side TCUB Washington and over time for a thriller They punched their ticket to the sweet 16 Texas star Madison Booker dropped the coup 40 points on Oregon They move on to the sweet 16 couple big games today for the women's and every game that's playing today And women's March madness the one time we'll move on to the sweet 16 They started playing like 11 o'clock for central time. I mean, uh, yeah, central time and they play all throughout the day Yes, uh, so check it out man. Uh, don't believe everything that you see on the internet Pittsburgh Steelers legend mean Joe Green is still very much alive
There was some rumors that he passed away over the weekend or whatever, but he is very much alive If you don't know who mean Joe Green Google him one of the greatest defensive line of all time And uh another rumor Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Mandy Pacquiao of course we said today Fight is gonna happen September the 19th, but then there were some rumors out there on the internet saying It was a hoax. It's not gonna happen. That's real. It is gonna happen It's not gonna be an exhibition. It's gonna be a real fight So Floyd Mayweather is putting his undefeated 50 and old record on the line for Mayweather Pacquiao to September 19th in Las Vegas. It's going down I know they older, but they're all going it is still going to be fun to watch. I'm down for it all Follow me on social media. Yeah, what's up doubt? You know, I apologize for cutting to your segment. Yeah, I'm so this is important. You yeah I took this chick to get her nails done and I posted it on r. It's kind of me. I just want to get your thoughts on it We go to the hotspot
Drop it like a child drop it like a child It's the PR 18 Yeah, little sausages It's 29 minutes before the trip. Give me a hand, right We'll smoke your sausages No, nope, nope, nope. I'll be nice. I'll leave a nice comment to my girl. I'm gonna miss Yeah Good morning Ricky. Good morning everybody. I'm here girl Brett's head and this is the hotspot But we bring you music movies and more so let's get off into a y'all and got no damn sense man Mary jave lodge is speaking out
About a time When one of her idols let her down because she says some root to her and he is what she had to say And you may have heard this before but I ain't saying on it. I just met this person And I was excited so excited to meet them And this is when you know back then when your roots was dark and your hair was blonde But people didn't know what it was but we knew what it was so this person goes you really should die your hair Your roots the same colors your hair and you need to learn how to sing on key I ain't saying no names because I was like that was Up because I was excited to meet this person and I and and I mean like gong hole and that's what they said to me We all think said this thing to sing on key and what that her roots you say yeah Oh, that's sound like yeah, I love it. Are Rita as I don't know it sounded like you the orita Yeah, Rita. It sounded like a Rita. Rita or Shaka
Well, they were just telling the truth though your roots and you had me to match All right Dark and it can go. I'm bright, right? Yeah, I know who you are talking about sir. I can't always go get my hair color every day Oh, you can't even always comment, but that's wow. Oh Oh my goodness Moving on y'all corner reports usher and Justin Bieber gotten to an altercation after the Oscars at the after party last week and reportedly went down after Beyoncé and Jay-Z's annual goal party So it's a say to usher approach Justin with energy and anger which led to a tense yet brief moment between them Thankfully the ordeal was kept at words and no physical contact and Usher was just as mentor and all this other stuff Well, I spoke to usher and he said this is an exaggeration of conversation He's been nothing but supportive of plenty of issues that Justin Bieber has had throughout the years and y'all can actually check the records for all that
He has been Uh, Justin is on his own journey dealing with his own reality that he's created Uh, usher wishes him nothing but the best and they have no hostility towards each other They definitely love each other so people just take things out of context when they see something and they run with it And I'm just here to say that is not the issue. They are definitely cool with each other and they have love and they support each other So somebody just made up all those stories, but they've been talking about Justin making up everything I mean they had they had a conversation Yeah, nobody heard the conversation but the two of them and people are just Taking it and twisted and turning it around, but I'm letting you know that everything is okay between them And there's no hostility in the air anywhere. All right. Y'all we gonna wrap up the hotspot on that note But for more information on these stories and more you can go to Ricky smiley morning show dot com And you could catch me on all my social media. It's so so breath coming up next y'all We got the president of the national urban league. Nope. Mark Moriel has a message for black America And the white stone got the phrase mixed down. That's next on a big smiley
Is coming about my girl. I didn't go. I know better Okay, all right y'all this Monday time by the state of black America in his morning We have the current president of the national urban league Mark Moriel Hey, good morning, Mr. Mark. We happy to have you and I know it's a lot going on in black America Thank you Ricky and once again, I'm proud to bring the state of black America to the rickie smiley morning show today I want all of you to be clued into the America 250 guide for defending democracy This brand new guide which is available to you at anuel dot org that's anuel dot org is a tool for you to use for conversations with those that wish To serve you as elected officials For incumbent legislators for community leaders all the way across the board This guide poses seven questions Seven questions for us to ask Those who are running for office to ensure that they are aligned with the issues that are important to our community
These seven questions revolve around the right to vote in defense of democracy They revolve around important questions of equal opportunity and yes diverse the equity and inclusion Along with free speech and the right to protest Important provisions that are embodied in our constitution And it really calls the question what will these officials do To ensure that we are protected Equal opportunity is protected civil rights are protected the constitution is protected our right to vote is protected So I'll bring it to your attention today and ask you to download it and share it on your social media channels This guide is free This guide is non-partisan Importantly it is non-partisan. So we want to share it widely as a tool for you to use Between now and election day so that seven questions with seven months to go To the crucial midterms and it's a tool for local elections and state elections and elections beyond
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