anthony: how does the joke begin? three men in a bar? but it s 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 that s become the soundtrack to, well, the whole wide world. do they all nod at each other? lament how all of them got screwed over, cut out of the big money? or just laugh at the absurdity of it all? hip-hop it came from nowhere else. it could have come from nowhere else but the bronx. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony: this is the br
Slowly moved its way up north. But that is the problem for a lot of people. We are hitting the top of the hour. I should mention that the power outage in New York City has now reached well past three hours. Here at msnbc along with morgan radford, weve been watching a number of different Breaking News situations right now. The big news that were getting here as we talk to you here at 10 00 p. M. We are now told at least 90,000 customers have been affected by this massive blackout here in New York City. When we first came on air several hours ago and they said that it was only about 20,000 customers, i knew that number was wrong, just based on the sheer topography. You have more than two square miles in New York City where people are in the dark. Now were being told by con edison officials that 90,000 customers which could mean hundreds of thousands of people
are in the dark right now at 10 00 at night. Just to do a quick reset for anyone who is joining us now. What we are facing out is
desus: there is, there is. if people would like, you know, get over their bias and come above 96th street they would find out. man: you learn fast. anthony: i mean, if the bronx were a neighborhood in manhattan, sort of shrunk-down, you d have hipsters crawling all over this place. desus: oh! oh my god. if you live in the bronx, it s not necessary that you re going to ever leave the bronx, go to manhattan, cause everything you want, everything you need is in the bronx. so, why would you go past 149th street? anthony: right. desus: so, all that repping my neighborhood, the ethnic pride and all that stuff anthony: right. desus: people definitely hold on to that. and that s definitely true of rhinelander avenue, the italians, the doo-wops, all that stuff. even this neighborhood was all white until the 50s. it s very recent, the whole immigrant experience. anthony: who lived here in the 50s? desus: all white people. anthony: what what kind of white people?