Desus Vs News Today

>> anthony: how does the joke begin? three men in a bar? but its not a bar. imagine the bronx -- a corner bodega, or maybe a luncheonette, a diner, three men, strictly by coincidence, find themselves in the same place at the same time. sitting at the counter is afrika bambaataa. across the room is melle mel. door opens, and who walks in? dj kool herc. three men who created the musical style thats become the soundtrack to, well, the whole wide world. do they all nod at each other? lamen...

>> anthony: up north a ways, in west jamaica, another working-class community where subway service is pretty limited. and yet people have to get up, go to work, and often make the long hump to another borough. >> anthony: afterwards, a person could use a drink. >> anthony: and if youre a jamaican person, you could use the everyday, go-to drink of back home. anytime of day or night, wray & nephew. >> desus: wray & nephew is a very strong jamaican white rum that we use for everything from baby fev...

Up north a ways. afterwards, a person could use a drink. >> anthony: and if youre a jamaican person, you could use the everyday, go-to drink of back home. anytime of day or night, wray & nephew. >> desus: wray & nephew is a very strong jamaican white rum that we use for everything from baby fever -- >> anthony: right. >> desus: -- to drinks here in this bar. you get it with cranberry juice, with milk, or water. >> desus: what water would be in any other borough is what wray & nephew is in the br...

Mess"? >> anthony: yes. >> afrika: thats the big baba, brother rashad, thats right. >> anthony: he and his associates in the zulu nation were absolutely instrumental in shaping what became hip-hop culture -- break-dancing, graffiti, deejaying, and rap. >> anthony: is the story true that you -- youd soak your records in water and take the label off? >> afrika: oh yes. we either, we put tape on it or we soaked the label off. um, you know, you had spies in each others camps, you know, trying to fin...

>> anthony: afterwards, a person could use a drink. >> anthony: and if youre a jamaican person, you could use the everyday, go-to drink of back home. anytime of day or night, wray & nephew. >> desus: wray & nephew is a very strong jamaican white rum that we use for everything from baby fever -- >> anthony: right. >> desus: -- to drinks here in this bar. you get it with cranberry juice, with milk, or water. >> desus: what water would be in any other borough is what wray & nephew is in the bronx. ...

>> anthony: up north a ways, in west jamaica, another working-class community where subway service is pretty limited. and yet people have to get up, go to work, and often make the long hump to another borough. afterwards, a person could use a drink. and if youre a jamaican person, you could use the everyday, go-to drink of back home. anytime of day or night, wray & nephew. >> desus: wray & nephew is a very strong jamaican white rum that we use for everything from baby fever -- >> anthony: right....

Desus is one half of the brilliant podcast team "desus vs. kid mero." its a very fast freeform riff diatribe on life in the bronx and whats happening in the news in hip-hop, or last night. >> desus: growing up in the bronx, youre isolated from the rest of the city. you know what im saying? so, the other city has like, citibike. the bronx doesnt get any of that. were kind of abandoned up here. people get on a boat and go to staten island before they ride up to the bronx. >> anthony: i -- i got to...

>> anthony: up north a ways, in west jamaica, another working-class community where subway service is pretty limited. and yet people have to get up, go to work, and often make the long hump to another borough. >> anthony: afterwards, a person could use a drink. >> anthony: and if youre a jamaican person, you could use the everyday, go-to drink of back home. anytime of day or night, wray & nephew. >> desus: wray & nephew is a very strong jamaican white rum that we use for everything from baby fev...