$500 a week in 1988 was about $1100 a week, $4,400 a month, $52,800 a year. Add the actual work day(1hr), connections, etc. That's a good hustle.
@bboy14813 жыл бұрын
Was a little more than that in 88
@ofacekillah3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@july713x33 жыл бұрын
$500 a well is @ little over 2k a month. Which is abt $24k a year, given a month can have a few days over a month, maybe 25k.
@elbowgang97153 жыл бұрын
@@july713x3 you must've missed the inflation and cost of living changes he accounted for in his math
@july713x33 жыл бұрын
@@elbowgang9715 yeah I did. Feeling disassociated today. Like I smoked weed but I can assure u I did not. Best.
@MrShawnuff3 жыл бұрын
Yall have to understand, not everyone had cable back then either.
@ApexLevelGaming3 жыл бұрын
Shitttt! A friend of the family had cable back then late 80's and he lived in Lithonia,GA when it was mostly woods.
@teezee10003 жыл бұрын
Cable was a luxury luxury expense...lol. If the money got funny, that was always the first to go...lol
@harrydaloc91123 жыл бұрын
I didn’t even have internet till 05 😭😂
@kaylean393 жыл бұрын
@@harrydaloc9112 same... we got it 04/05 😂🤣
@TheNumbasign23 жыл бұрын
I did
@druhye3 жыл бұрын
500 dollars a week to a quarter million a year wow when you put in that work great things happen
@JayWerx3 жыл бұрын
And 250k in the early 90s is like a million now
@juanboss5603 жыл бұрын
They split the $250K
@LastBref3 жыл бұрын
"when you put in that work great things happen" ^In some cases that's true, but in many other cases, hard work is not rewarded.
@AntTurner3 жыл бұрын
@@JayWerx No its not, more like 400k
@godofthisshit3 жыл бұрын
@@AntTurner Inflation wise, but money and cost of living was different.
@JeromeGigante3 жыл бұрын
500$ was GOOD money at those times! , If you was an adult or young adult in those times then you KNOW! ... it was ending of the REGAN era & everything was low income 🗣
@mr.tooyou13203 жыл бұрын
Facts
@ispeakmucho3 жыл бұрын
I was a kid in the 80s but I remember what rent looked like and with 500$ could cover that, depending on where in the city you lived. Considering the cost of a NYC 1 bdrm in 2020, that would be like getting nearly 2k a week.
@thomasnelson2133 жыл бұрын
That's why the wanted contracts for a long time. They wasn't bout to quit, they wanted to secure that, they just didn't know what they was worth cause once they got representation they was making 4807 a week and that was back then!
@bsmith1613803 жыл бұрын
I remember when Ed was security guard at Andrew Jackson H.S,with Mrs creech. Salute.
@vladtv3 жыл бұрын
whoa
@realdealneighborhood20233 жыл бұрын
@@vladtv how do I get on the show
@jon700823 жыл бұрын
@Detroit s Finest vlads burner acc
@luchionooj3 жыл бұрын
@Detroit s Finest he is
@JeromeGigante3 жыл бұрын
@@luchionooj 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@mayzilla11743 жыл бұрын
Being a Metal and Hip Hop fan as a kid i watched HeadbangersBall and YO! MTV Raps all the time.....good times
@omaraguilar21823 жыл бұрын
You took it back fuck....sucka free Sunday 2
@cross73873 жыл бұрын
120 minutes. Hip hop fan here I no so many rock/heavy metal songs because of mtv enter sandman is my favorite rock song
@mayzilla11743 жыл бұрын
@@cross7387 MTV was the shit back then.....there was something 4 everybody and you could always discover new exciting music, artists and bands
@Willie-C3 жыл бұрын
Who remembers the rock n jock basketball and softball games ?
@cross73873 жыл бұрын
@@Willie-C yes and LIQUID TV
@theDavidChannel13 жыл бұрын
It's funny how appreciative Ed Lover sounds about everything but Doctor Dre sounds mad resentful lol
@Blackfeet3 жыл бұрын
It's due to the fact that Doctor Dre can't read the KZbin comments. Everyone knows the best part about KZbin is reading the fuckery in the comments section and now he's blind and salty because of it. You can't eat burgers, fries and drink soda everyday and expect to be in good health at 60 to read the comments online.
@minorsnow53063 жыл бұрын
Dre has had more rougher times afterwards...it happens
@LQueFitz3 жыл бұрын
Different perspectives
@cwillie14923 жыл бұрын
Plus Dre had impact in other ways in hip hop than Ed. He feels he never got respect. He’s hurt.
@Blackfeet3 жыл бұрын
@@juniord3997 He has no one to feel sorry for but himself for putting his own body in that condition. Now he'll never see this KZbin thread of comments but he can be our cautionary tale to get your health right by the age of 30. This guy was Big Pun's size at one point. Shameful.
@gcforreal3 жыл бұрын
I miss him doing the c'mon son! On KZbin back in the day
@ghost1fl3 жыл бұрын
Yea he should bring that back
@littv75093 жыл бұрын
But because of this sensitive assed society, he wouldn't be able to do it nowadays.
@gcforreal3 жыл бұрын
@@littv7509 yeah so many ppl would be trying to actually beef with him .. it was essentially donkey of the day before breakfast club
@dgrace273 жыл бұрын
Man I forgot about that haha.
@Antoinedunaway3 жыл бұрын
I love when hip hop legends come on the show
@ADG.Est.19883 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this interview. And the gentleman conducting the interview did a great job
@coreyjenkins30562 жыл бұрын
Never missed an episode!!! I loved to see the Classic Ed Lover Dance!!! 🤜🏿🤛🏿⚓❤️
@lburgess4203 жыл бұрын
Time to rewatch Who's the Man
@cwillie14923 жыл бұрын
I wished Ed got more acting gigs. Funny and talented guy.
@jdnwritingmachine3 жыл бұрын
We need those JOE CLAIR and BIG LEZ interviews, Vlad !
@anthonyrosati87073 жыл бұрын
wow those was the good ol days can u believe it MTV ACTUALLY PLAYED MUSIC!!! (music television) not anymore now they play im pregnant at 10 and teen mom catfish they show everything but videos bring back the old school platform id actually watch that station again mad respect Ed Lover
@phonkyfeel1 Жыл бұрын
Love you man! Thanks for giving us your beautiful soul!!
@hoodratpat52283 жыл бұрын
I hope you ask and I hope he answers truthfully what Eazy-E whispered in his ear
@4LP3E3 жыл бұрын
I heard I’ll knock ur ass out
@TheWickedArcade3 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@jayagainsthumanity3 жыл бұрын
He didn’t answer it.
@videsjlv3 жыл бұрын
500 a week was like 1200 to us back then. That's good.
@AntTurner3 жыл бұрын
Not really, MTV was making millions a week off of that show. Very disrespectful for them not to have a contract within the first year of the biggest rap show
@jacobbrock71923 жыл бұрын
@@AntTurner it wasn't that big in the first year It kept growing over the year's an it was the only rap show on back then
@AntTurner3 жыл бұрын
@@jacobbrock7192 "biggest" and he said first 2 years. This is not a debate, i know the money these TV/ Movie companies make. 500 a week is a slap in the face.
@kevinlewis81623 жыл бұрын
@@AntTurner you're 100% correct here! i'm a 45 year old duth guy, and that show and ed lover is a big part of rap history and watched this in holland, that was the era i loved hip-hop, and 500$ is peanuts ....i hope he made at least 10x more the next year of that show !?
@BobFosterMedia3 жыл бұрын
You can make that working in a warehouse or something these days. For someone on TV at the height of MTV popularity, that's nothing.
@FaisalSheikh823 жыл бұрын
I hope they asked him about the infamous Eazy-E incident.
@juanboss5603 жыл бұрын
Even if they do I guarantee he's not gonna say what he said to him.
@jddoe61073 жыл бұрын
I want to know
@FaisalSheikh823 жыл бұрын
@@juanboss560 I was thinking the same thing, but it could be that he knows that everyone knows it was something negative towards his attitude and for Ed Lover to say something else would not make sense.
@C-Lyfe853 жыл бұрын
How is there an infamous moment? It's something that went viral, 30 years later, because of KZbin. Nobody remembered it up until recently, thanks to a VHS collector.
@jacobbrock71923 жыл бұрын
If you listen to easy e closely in the clip he says thank you for being us on the show but keep your hands to your self
@ofacekillah3 жыл бұрын
I wish I was making $1000 a week now for a half day of work!
@AMOKIAN3 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this interview and the Doctor Dre interview too. Yoooo MTV Raps...was incredible... Fab 5 versions too...🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
@july713x33 жыл бұрын
I didn't really watch yo mtv raps but I loved him on the radio. Just a fun charasmatic spirit.
@o.grubszy3 жыл бұрын
It was global! I used to watch YO! MTV Raps in Poland in the 90`s
@ronisgrateful Жыл бұрын
when Yo Mtv raps was on: I was like 15 yo & I looooved watching it‼️and yes it was international for sure, because I live in the Netherlands! respect to Dr. Dre & Ed Lover 🙏🏻❤️
@mavrolos47283 жыл бұрын
love it. happy to see Ed telling his story
@simpdown14043 жыл бұрын
Dope interview
@ariefraiser1403 жыл бұрын
I remember around the same time 1989 or 1990 my pop got his PHd in history and his first job as a professor paid him around $26,000 a year in North Carolina (slightly more than $500 a week). Coming from the expensive violent DC area (crack epidemic) to NC with that kind of money back then we thought we had made it.
@spinningbackkick60213 жыл бұрын
This dude had a good gig. It's an extra 2,000 a month for one day of work. You can't hate on that.
@Antoinedunaway3 жыл бұрын
Happy Holidays to everyone 🎄
@oblivian13083 жыл бұрын
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄💯
@steviealvaalbany27303 жыл бұрын
🎄
@scarletbouvier5203 жыл бұрын
Hope you'd see gabrielle union caught in a window this holiday season 😜👌
@CamdenMcInnis3 жыл бұрын
Smart man! To be on TV back then he could have been like "I'm a superstar, I don't need no damn job, I can make this work."
@novalove47903 жыл бұрын
All the shows that preceded them need to bow down to Yo MTV Raps 💯
@mikeychainsaw97603 жыл бұрын
Uncle Ralph needs a bio pic he's a legend. I use to run home to watch video music box
@savoirfaire54603 жыл бұрын
if you lived in NYC tri- state area for video music we New York Hot Tracks with Carlos De Jesus or U68 and at the time NYC didn't even have cable
@ceeIoc3 жыл бұрын
Video music box
@branstarone3 жыл бұрын
Yo was the ish! I used to make my college room mates watch every Friday night!
@gersonc.27373 жыл бұрын
First time ever that somebody acknowledge Sophy Bramley, she started Yo on MTV Europe in 1987. The show was about Hip-Hop but Hip-Hop is Europe was always a bit different than Hip-Hop from the USA. A lot of artist from the USA would perform on that show.
@Lean63 жыл бұрын
I remember back in Jersey, trying to get Video Music Box to come in good on my tv back before cable. Run DMC had like 3 videos in the line up.
@kenp15633 жыл бұрын
The tri state area knows about how dope video music box was back in the day.
@MrDaveyboysmitt3 жыл бұрын
Listen Vlad . I don’t want to hear anyone but you interviewing these legends . Save the other for the wack new rappers . Thanks
@ayrramadan88193 жыл бұрын
Vlad trying to keep his show. He's getting a lot of negative energy fir being a Culture Vulture!
@thatninja84583 жыл бұрын
He showing diversity
@greghicks75323 жыл бұрын
Hey cuz...good to see you ..beard looking good
@deb89113 жыл бұрын
Awwww Shawn prez doing the interview! That’s what’s up!
@damionbarker033 жыл бұрын
Glad gets the cool studio background this guy gets a closet😂🤦🏾♂️
@marvingonzalez68913 жыл бұрын
I just bought 2 ten pack sealed boxes of "Yo" Rap cards for $10
@rashad19063 жыл бұрын
Wow I still have mine
@alshansmith3 жыл бұрын
“Cmon Son” !!! ED cool Dude....
@CSDonohue113 жыл бұрын
Who is The Man is my joint.
@Brian000073 жыл бұрын
I wish I was old enough to experience hip hop and all of pop culture in the 90s
@1_Lando3 жыл бұрын
This is inspirational shout out to Ed Lover and Queens NY!
@duddaman2541183 жыл бұрын
Man the box channel was 19B I used to order shit all the time man those was the day
@rastagideon82363 жыл бұрын
Friday nights used to be Yo MTV Raps for me (early 90's). TY Dre, Ed and Fab 5 Freddy. Not a surprise that they f'd you guys over on money, always been a super-white channel.
@davidreeves25963 жыл бұрын
His group leader was Sue! The most respected school safety!!
@caliclassicstv20243 жыл бұрын
Goes to show how these majors are always screwing us black folks
@daboe-xm9yr3 жыл бұрын
Video Jukebox was the one for us in Miami you had to pay $1.99 to request a video.
@darrylnelson053 жыл бұрын
Ed you OWE Dre a LOT.
@PancakeDiaries3 жыл бұрын
No he doesn’t... men don’t owe men anything. Why should he give anything up to Dre? Dre’s health ain’t his problem... how shit has turned out is not his responsibility. Be humble nigga
@JeromeGigante3 жыл бұрын
@@PancakeDiaries exactly brova PREACH!
@mattinmo3 жыл бұрын
Man, MTV used to be the shit... now its teen mom and ridiculous all day on repeat
@bigolebot3 жыл бұрын
MTV has been dead since the early 90sn
@jw88633 жыл бұрын
If they gave them $500, they were easily worth $2500... even rappers and industry people now are getting jerked... unionize
@dugdrilly3 жыл бұрын
In Indianapolis, we had Jock in the Box. A pay per play music video channel.
@selfiekroos17773 жыл бұрын
ASK ABOUT THE EAZY E INCIDENT
@JahEerie3 жыл бұрын
He did - it's in another section
@lavenderlunchbox3 жыл бұрын
Ed lover a real one.
@ramonsalazar1583 жыл бұрын
I’m waiting for him to discuss his relationship with Tupac
@KuyaSamYT3 жыл бұрын
Please tell me that you asked him what Eazy E whispered in his ear that time????
@ChicagoDonny9223 жыл бұрын
Mmm..."I know we went from $500 a week to a quarter-million dollar$/$250,000 a year"...Amen...Right On Jack!!!
@perzonne63023 жыл бұрын
damn this brother seem like he could give you that real love...i'm talkin big homie ish
@rcfresh43453 жыл бұрын
🤦🏾♂️ c'mon son
@perzonne63023 жыл бұрын
@@rcfresh4345 wat u mean unc🤷
@rcfresh43453 жыл бұрын
Maybe I took your comment the wrong way...maybe not. At the end of the day do u. C'mon son is an expression that Ed Lover made popular some years back btw. Seemed appropriate.
@KD_SWAGGER3 жыл бұрын
Never knew Ed Lover was a security guard while doing YO! MTV Raps.
@Jpmd30003 жыл бұрын
$500 a week nothing to complain about
@Willie-C3 жыл бұрын
Kurtis blow has some jams
@daibm53923 жыл бұрын
Just here for the 2Pac questions.
@lamarcusrstokes3 жыл бұрын
Damn! Dawg was making what i make a week 😭
@trellcraft3 жыл бұрын
Legend
@user-vg8tv1hp9c3 жыл бұрын
No lie this title made me tear up how you work for mtv for 500 a week?
@DavidMalbranque3 жыл бұрын
With inflation that’s about $1200 a week nowadays.
@dnationapocalypse3 жыл бұрын
Hey... You gotta pay the bills 😒
@InternetSenation3 жыл бұрын
Did you even watch the video before commenting? He said he was working as a security guard at a high school at the same time and he wasn't on a contract with MTV, it was side hustle basically until he actually got a contract.
@jeffjohnson31903 жыл бұрын
You don't know show biz then!! They use you until become a product or let you go when your use is done!! Look a joe budden or nick cannon!!
@PancakeDiaries3 жыл бұрын
Y’all niggas need to calm down if ur ignorant to the evolution. Rap was not the behemoth it is now, and MTV JUST started playing rap... 500 a week back then was amazing
@marlonburden97173 жыл бұрын
Big ups Ed 👍
@6eostorm3 жыл бұрын
Now I feel bamboozle knowing they did a week worth of episodes in only day ☹️
@PsyCodeqz3 жыл бұрын
the only face that reminds me of Non from Superman 2
@gellotion3 жыл бұрын
HOW are they not talking bout Freddy??? Fab5 Freddy was the original host when Yo MTV Raps started off, back when it was 30 mins, once a week on Saturday morning. You'd see THREE hip hop videos A WEEK on ALL of cable TV! That Was It. BET didn't exist. VH1 definitely didn't play hip hop. There were NO Other video shows on cable. There was Raplh McDaniels with Video Music Box on UHF, and NY Hot Tracks on ABC which played early Madonna and the occasional Run Dmc video. But Fab5 Freddy got this whole thing started on cable.
@gellotion3 жыл бұрын
My bad, no other video Channels is what I meant. Only MTV and VH1 back then
@allinonethegreat3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like they was getting ripped off like Chapelle for their work not knowing their value but good it helped out their careers
@bigtime89073 жыл бұрын
"Who's the Man?" was based on Ed Lover's real life.
@letstalkwithpatrickpodcast3 жыл бұрын
The 2Pac and Stretch stories will be coming soon. Which is fine with me.
@MrStlover993 жыл бұрын
I always wondered if Ed was in my family tree
@jacobkatzenberg10323 жыл бұрын
$500 a week in 90 would be $995 today that's almost $25/hr for a 40/hr work week raise your hand if your making $25/hr Stop complaining Ed you got to hangout with rappers and be on TV for more money than I do breaking my back
@sinjinweiss58433 жыл бұрын
Acting like $500/week wasn't alot of money back then. Just saying, not for nothing 🤷🏻♂️
@cue18063 жыл бұрын
Shit thats a lot of money now. Especially for working 4 days a month an getting 2k
@sinjinweiss58433 жыл бұрын
@@cue1806 I didn't even watch the video. He wasn't even working that many days lol? Wow but I was saying because yeah $500/week is a lot of money now still but back then 500/week you were making bank. Now you prolly can just live comfortable for the most part on that income. Im behind in child support and just got out of jail. I wouldn't be comfortable for a while lol
@harrydaloc91123 жыл бұрын
That ain’t shlt
@yeahisaidit56333 жыл бұрын
What the fuck MTV!
@adriansmith40643 жыл бұрын
Highlights NWA, Eazy E, Bone Thugs N Harmony...
@daibm53923 жыл бұрын
This is beyond crazy, people in the States needed the cable to watch MTV. Meanwhile, we watched in Africa for free LMAO
@JahEerie3 жыл бұрын
'GotchU!' - Vlad ™️
@Shonuff420803 жыл бұрын
Cable wasn't in a lot a big city in that time.
@tommy63223 жыл бұрын
Earning 500 a week as a host of that show is just wrong. I made more working at a warehouse when I was 20 years old.
@marleyjanim50333 жыл бұрын
It was a one day shoot
@omaraguilar21823 жыл бұрын
Sounds like some current ufc fighters having 2 jobs
@Dangerclose13 жыл бұрын
Andrew Jack!
@The_Queprint3 жыл бұрын
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
@jmsirby323 жыл бұрын
500 to 250 k damn
@NNA19583 жыл бұрын
Smart! 🤷🏽♀️
@jasonjones21373 жыл бұрын
Alot of ppl copied Yo MTV style...
@REAlMIDOFFICIAL3 жыл бұрын
My latest release "Vlad me" from my upcoming album "Fourth Quarter, No Overtime" @Y2AA
@bullitt38393 жыл бұрын
Rushtown management?
@IGStrangDaKang3 жыл бұрын
Only 500 a week.. thats good momey in ohio
@zomuch90713 жыл бұрын
Vlad should do these legendary interviews 🤷🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️😂 vlad would get more better stories etc😂
@topnorthtv91293 жыл бұрын
Nah Vlad would ask if he got busted by a cop or tell us about 2pac or what do u think about the boosie situation Vlad would then say here's a flash back
@Educationfirst-n6u3 жыл бұрын
They made mtv
@444tesseract3 жыл бұрын
Yo mtv raps was wack af. They were biased and ny rap was weak with goofy characters. Rap city killed that.
@noncustody3 жыл бұрын
There probably wouldn't have been a Rap City without Yo MTV Raps.
@444tesseract3 жыл бұрын
@Street style beta males
@444tesseract3 жыл бұрын
@@noncustody yeah and without slavery too. 🤣
@Flowmajor7773 жыл бұрын
What is up with his nose?
@mr.tooyou13203 жыл бұрын
Work isn't bad stop following these stupid rapper's.