With my stomach feeling completely turned out, I reached for my bottle of water. I drank the whole thing in a matter of seconds. I love tequila. But not so much when you have to be up in a few hours for an important meeting.

Showered with no shave, same pants, shoes, and shirt on from the night before I headed into the city.... to meet with Cipha Sounds & Peter Rosenberg at Hot 97. They were wrapping up their show with a last minute interview from some of Cadillac Records cast. Tiffany led me into the main studio's where the magic happens. I temporarily watched the end of the interview from the engineer's studio next door (That's the guy that makes sure the mic's volume doesn't blow out your car speakers).

Pretty fucking calm for a serious meeting Ciph & Rosenberg open the door to the engineering studio. First thing out of their mouth is, "Are you white?"... I dodged that question at first and they brought me into the main studio because sitting in a meeting office space is uncomfortable. I sit down at the table and the rest of their skeleton crew follows into the room.

There's 5 of them all-together plus the engineer who apparently works 24 hour days. They talk about the girl from Cadillac Records that just left and how she has so much money. These dudes are assholes, prolly more than me. I fit right in.

We chat about the fact that they're gunning for the number one morning show spot, And I reply to them that there's no point in being in the biz if you've got no goals.... Ciph starts making fun of Rosenberg for a while, mostly about baldness and his Jewness. Then Ciph turns to me and asks me if I'm Jewish, "No." "Italian?" "No." Sounds then says... "Well what the fuck are you?" And of course my reply is African American. The rooms heads turn at me and they start laughing... I slow them down..... "Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, that's the truth. My pops is Morrocan."

They joke with each other how that could be a good segment on the show... "Our white african-american intern." I second the idea that that's a good move. Hopefully they've decided that I am the candidate for their show - I mean.... from one asshole to another asshole.... strength in numbers!

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