Amanda Seales On Exes Pusha T & Lupe Fiasco, Talks Jay-Z & Getting Fired + Banned from SiriusXM

one of the first jobs you had when you were a radio host did you how did you get into radio um I was a spoken word poet okay so I did like de poetry Jam when I was in college and um I would do slams and you know all of that and I ended up performing at a Jesse Jackson rainbow push benefit and I just remember it being like pouring rain and I still was like no I'm going to Rainbow push to get there right and there was a brother there uh Ken Spelman who gave me his card and was like you know we should talk about you doing radio but like listen Brothers give you a card give you their card you thinking so me see and you be like all right all right so I went back to purchase and the car was sitting on my desk and um I hadn't called him it was like a week and my home girl was sitting at my desk cuz she was like using my computer and she was looking at the car she was like oh w wow this office is at Rockefeller Center and I was like whose office is at Rockefeller Center she was like the the card that you have on your desk from who's this car from and I was like oh that's that's the guy I met at the um at the at the the benefit she was like I think this is legit I was like huh and I looked at I was like oh [ __ ] I didn't even realize this I thought it was like homeboy LLC so I called him and he was like I'd love for you to come to the radio and like you know I want to interview you as a poet Etc I didn't realize that when I went to to the radio and he was interviewing me about poetry he was actually interviewing me for the job so I ended up getting a job as a radio host at Sirius and I was hosting like these two stations that were kind of like just esoteric and all over the place and ecletic and then I graduated so that was in March of 202 o no baby that was in March of 2003 three yeah cuz I started a series at 2004 I did radio for series okay so I I started there in 2003 and then N9 months later so I've graduated now I'm sitting in actually no the these two guys that were on the hip-hop station uh I they were standing in their boss's office but the office had two sections and they were in the front section I had just pee my head in to say hi and they're like oh what's up and they had like the outcast album in front of them uh speaker box love below was in front of them and I was like oh man I love that album they were like yeah we're supposed to interview them um later today you know we really excited but we really know a lot about Outcast so I start going in cuz I'm an outcast fan right so I start going in and while we're talking their boss who's on the other side of the C the cubicle gets a call that they have to move the interview to the next day so he's like hey guys they got to move the interview to tomorrow and they're like oh [ __ ] we can't do it we wouldn't even be in town and he's like well and he like knew of me cuz I was on this I was that serious he was like hey um you sound like you know a lot about Outcast do you want to do the interview yes so that was my first interview my very first interview was with Outcast wow and um yeah like I I love me Outcast and then and so then I was at serus for a few years um and uh yeah I don't want to tell another negative story so no wasn't then I wasn't that serious right what happened how you how you I mean you you a magician because you magically appear at a job and then you just disappear what other version of that is there I'm just say this this actually the only job I got fired from this the only job I how you how you get fired so my boss was this brother who's I who I will not even Honor by naming him okay um he had little ass chain and a high booty okay I need had a poster of condalisa rice and uh he would send us memos with um intros from different generals like there would be like a memo with like a paragraph from General McCarthy and Norman Schwarz cough I'm like this is hip-hop [ __ ] what we why why why am I being why am I having to deal with this and he uh came into my studio well the first time we ever met I went to DAP him and he said keep it corporate whoa so that the that was our our very first interaction I went to and he said keep it corporate I said okay remember I'm 21 right okay uh then a week later he came into my studio and he said so you know I just wanted you to know that um I know that you're spoiled and I'm going to expose you huh and I'm 21 and I'm in New York right yeah so my Instinct my instinctual response to that is I have to prove him wrong and my way to prove him wrong is I have to pull him in you know I have to show him no like I'm Amanda like I'm not spoiled I've worked really hard for all of this [ __ ] like get out of here so I spent the next two years really doing my best to um to to make shorty swing my way so to speak uh not in a romantic way but in a professional way so I'm showing up early I'm late you know I'm doing all the interviews um everybody knew me at at serious because I am a true full-fledged hip hop you know what I'm saying so they knew that when they brought their artist there like it's G to be a real interview it's not just going to be some can that they get everywhere else so I got really cool with the radio um execs Etc so you know and then at one point in time um so once I went on tour with flry he flipped he flipped because he wanted to be a star and I was be I was like in his mind guess getting startom so once I went on FL tour with flry I was like oh I could be I could record on tour and he just was not let it happen once I came back from the FY tour it was never cool again right never cool again and he started doing weird stuff like lying about people coming to the show you know to the station and so I remember at the time I was seeing Lupe and um Lupe hit me and was like uh why am I coming to the radio station I'm not going interview with you and you know he don't know that so now I'm like why is Lupe Fiasco coming to the radio station but he's not interviewing with me he's like well how did you even know he was coming you don't need to know how I know that the question is why are you keeping me out yeah like why are you keeping me out he say you need to give other people a chance B you I'm not stopping anybody else right um but if they want to interview with you they want to interview with you but also the way Sirus is set up as you know they're going to interview with a myriad of people right so I am not in any way you're not the only one they interviewing with yeah he's just trying to keep them from interviewing with me right um I remember ho came and he was just like sitting in the lobby and I had come into to work and I was like what are you doing you just sit here he was like yeah I was like you want to do an interview real quick I got a studio he's like yeah no problem so we go do the interview they tried to fire me cuz they said I interviewed Jay-Z without clearance now you know they should have been applauding you and it was pre-recorded so like if you didn't want to use the interview you didn't have to use the interview but they tried to say that I was like stepping outside of you know the the protocol but it aired on their station it wasn't like you you aired it somewhere like it was like I got this interview I'mma put it on my Ig page I'll put it on my my Facebook page it aired on there so so there's a book called the gifted adult yeah and in this book within the first two pages they give two examples of adults who are gifted and it shows up in their overachievement it shows up in their um type A you know assessment of Personality right it shows up in their ability to show up and this becomes a problem at their jobs because people start to feel like they're outworking them people start to feel like they're outdoing them right and then it becomes you think you're better than me yes so this is the dynamic I have experienced in many places so whereas you said oh they should be applauding you I texted hve on my T-Mobile Sidekick um because that was the time and that just lets you know how old we are and I was like hey they're trying to fire me for interviewing you and he said Verbatim what you said he said well not verba him but he said they should be promoting you but notice who are the over chevers in this conversation see see how all the overachievers had the same response right no I'm in the way I'm in the way I'm doing too much and I'm a girl I'm a woman I'm doing too much shut the okay um that's what the that's what they think that's what a lot that's what a lot of the energy is a lot of the energy is shut up and even if if you won't let me at least make me think I got a chance let's just let me just just let me think I remember Green Lantern telling me you know what your reputation is that you are hard to over and even harder to and I was like my mother I'm sure is very proud but that was so you know as serus I um so what ended up happening was I went to um HR and shared with them this is before I knew that HR see the game that you be talking about that I didn't know that the HR ain't for you it's for them so oh I went to HR like listen I'm having trouble with my Superior you know he's not very kind and I'm thinking that they going to set me up to like a solution baby they said from now on you will not speak to him you will speak to this other person who will relay to him wow so I'm like I mean I that's not like a solution but I I I guess you know so now I do this for a year I do this for a year um now I'm dating push a te as you can see that rappers I have dated are very great MC's because I have high quality high quality you be you got that was two now me saying I mean I you know I mean I'm glad you shared that information but well I think it's I think it's valid and shouts to Virginia his beautiful wife and their beautiful son right because we grow up yeah you know we grow up and I think it's important that we acknowledge that people have like full lifespans yeah people have past people have dated other people that that people might know you know and I just feel like if I'm who came before you you know I'm a good I'm a good I'm a good track record like so I remember I got invited to the uh MTV Music Awards right by push's manager they were like we're going to be out here let us know if you want to come now you if you have a someone who's on radio and they have a hip-hop show and they can go to the MTV Music Awards wouldn't you say you send them head on out there bring a d machine and a mic see how many interviews you can get right so I tell the person that I have to talk to to talk to the boss I'm going to I I want to go can we find someone to cover my shift he says yes he finds someone to cover my shift he says your shift is covered you can go I had out there while I'm out there I get a call I get a call from my boss saying um you going to the MTV Music Awards is a example of um severe insubordination and so we will be terminating your contract I said but I followed the protocol got someone to cover my Shi I spoke to this other person he said well you were supposed to speak to me well not according to human resource LOL the person in the back who said yeah so I said well not according to Human Resources he said well according to me so I then um went back back to you ain't get no interviews at least get the interviews and keep them for yourself I didn't even have I didn't get I didn't even have a d machine oh okay okay um but I went back to New York and they fired me and then I went on my space and I said you know I had I did like an announcement like you know you won't be able to hear my show anymore I'm really it's really unfortunate that my boss you know who is a black man just didn't feel like it was his necess like it wasn't necessary for him to protect me in this situation but nonetheless it is what it is and I hope that I can create other ways you know to reach y'all he saw that post used it um and had me banned from Sirus for seven years he said that that post was an indication of my like wanting to come back and like harm him that little chain HW booty get you every time get you every time but you know what that that that situation speaks to a number of situations where people people hold them people holding me MH to a standard they don't hold so it was like I'mma treat you any old way and you just going to take you just need to take it you just need to accept it and I don't know when this happened Shannon but even within the Zeitgeist now it's like I am expected to just take whatever is given to me and shut the up and I will not I don't understand that no matter what jobs I've had if I speak on it it becomes she's complaining it's like well I'm I'm expressing my and if you haven't noticed remember I told you I'm just giving you this happened then this happened then this happened I'm not speaking to what they thought I'm not speaking to how they made me feel I'm just telling you these are the series of events and you can judge for yourself but ultimately this idea that like I am somehow not allowed to have struggle like I'm not allowed to have a bad experience without there being this doubt painted on me want to join Club sh Shay become an official member by hitting that subscribe button where you never know who's going to be joining us for drinks and conversation don't be late to the party because you know we like to do something before two something

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Length: 14min 37sec (877 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 26 2024