We have on tap so many people i need notes. My mom and my family. We have the roots of music with derek tab. Derek, get over here we have the hot a brass band. We have manny fresh as i introduced to you, the awardwinning music producer. The 50th Anniversary of hiphop is coming up tomorrow as a matter of fact. We will talk about that. Derek, lets talk about the rooster music. You come every year, you are the band for the rooster music. These are young people you are helping out. Explain what happens with the roots of music. Roots of music is an after School Program dedicated to serving the kids of new orleans. We take kids from all around the city, from over 30, 40 schools around the city, bring them to one safe location where they learn how to play music, new orleans music. They learn how to be friends before enemies, we teach them skills. You know what i love about this, i love about new orleans is the diversity here. Right. It is full of beautiful black people celebrating, and you ar
manny fresh is here. how y all doing. grammy-award-winning music producer. hi, happy new year. my extended family. my beautiful nieces, katie, kimberley, ashley, my great-nephew, my brother-in-law. these are my boys. say hi to tim. say hi to gus, barkley and boomer. we have so much planned for you in the next couple of hours. i know everyone is wondering, is don lemon drinking, is he lit? i will let you be the judge. my mom says i don t need to drink to have this personality. never. this is my natural personality. everybody thinks i m drunk every year, i m not. this is my personality. anyway we have marching bands. we will do what they do here in new orleans. we will take you on a parade. we will take you on a ride around new orleans, show you some people doing really good things for the city. let s march. let s have a second line and let s go through.