Roy Wood Jr.

So it just so happened.

That there was a morning show that I used to listen to every morning when I was getting up and getting ready for school and, you know, whatever.

And it was WVHT Hot 105.7, the breakfast buffet with Van Wilson and William Gilmore.

And so I came up in radio news.

My pops was a radio newsman.

He did news on the fives for four hours straight on the black news station in town.

And then would do reports for the black music station as well on the tens.

And so I knew what radio news was because I sat beside him in the control room every summer for hours, listening to him just read news reports and take calls.

I listened to The Breakfast Buffet and I listened to Tom Joyner.

Tom Joyner had news.

The Breakfast Buffet didn't.

So about a month into getting back into school, I ride my bike over to Hot 105.7 and I rap with Van Wilson, who ironically, his father, Roosevelt Wilson, used to run with my pops back in the day in journalism circles.

And his pops, Roosevelt, was one of my journalism professors.

Now, I had flunked his class.

I was a terrible student.

But off the strength of my pops, it was enough of a vouch where I felt confident going, step in the van.

I go, yo, man, our pops used to know each other.

I need an internship.

I believe your morning show could use some hard news in the morning.

If you don't mind, I would like to come to the station every day at 6 a.m.