Malik Yoba: New York Undercover was "The Little Ghetto Show That Could" (Part 7)
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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In this clip, Malik Yoba detailed why New York Undercover was ultimately canceled by the network. Malik touched on how the show wasn't promoted by Fox or any of its affiliates while many of the hip-hop outlets also shut them out. He went on to talk about his work within the community and explained why he believes everyone with means should be doing what Nipsey did for his community.
New York Undercover is very underrated. It broke Hip-hop into mainstream drama. Fox got arrogant once it landed the Super Bowl. Malik Yoba and Michael De Lorenzo had a phenomenal chemistry.
Facts!!!
@@DunDone_IT5252 I miss it.
Tru
@Vegas Mitchell You make a great point.
@@booshine187 That's what's up
New York Undercover was one of the fresh and dopest tv shows of the 1990s.No doubt about it.A very good show.
Chris Brooks Malik is an asshole. Trust me. You would hate him if you knew him.
It was a good show.
It was to the 90s what Miami Vice was to the 80s.
And I aint going to lie to you. In away, they played the role as cops but in the reality of that era, cops were really like that.
@@PeteMcCorvey and Dick Wolf had a hand in both shows
Personally, I prefer those shows over Law & Order ANYDAY of the week
New York Undercover was so hip-hop and urban that I couldn't wait for it to come on. NY undercover was truly in tune with the times musically and fashionably. JC and Torres always dressed in the freshest gear. Phat-farm, Jordans, Timbs, you name it...they wore it!!! I loved how they would have musical guests performing at the end of episodes. Classic!!!
Facts I tried to find everything what they wore during school clothes shopping at that time 😂😂
They had the best gear. It's funny how they could afford Karl Kani and all those expensive ass hockey jerseys on a NY cop's salary lol.
@@andrechristian4202 😂😂facts
@@andrechristian4202 Lol! They had that street “vendor” connect.
Hip hop up until that point had just become so marketable and fox used shows like this and the other urban joints we loved to catch up to the NBCs. Also Andre harrell had his hand in this show
"They actually begged me to take the part for NewYork Undercover but I told them give the role to Malik because my tour was just getting started"
- TK Kirkland
lmaooo 😂😂😂
@@nonyabidness5454 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌
@@TheBraunMachine2011 😂😂😂😂😂🙌
Jax Teller662 😭😂😂
😂😂😂
New York Underwear was CLASSIC!! That show got me through age 14 to -17. After Eddie Torres died and the duo wasn’t there, the show didn’t have the hip hop vibe anymore. They even stopped showing concerts at Natalie’s
Yeah Eddie bein killed messed me up
Malik Yoba is a solid dude and has no time for fools. Vlad respects that too as we rarely hear his voice in this clip.
Brandon Betts lol finally
You said that best!
Yes, we dont hear his voice-- miracles really do happen.
8:00 Living Single,8:30 Martin,9:00 New York Undercover every Thursday..I MISS THURSDAYS😪
💕💕💕
Yes, that was when Watching Tv was an event in itself!!! 💯👍🏽
@@BIGSEXXY62677 facts
I used to beg my mom to stay up to watch these shows every Thursday in Philly smh
@@BIGSEXXY62677 right and if you didnt sit down and watch it you missed it and would be mad the next day when your friends talked about it lol
New York Undercover was definitely that show think about any police show that ever came out New York Undercover killed it
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Hill street blues
Homicide: Life on the streets
Not even close to Law and Order
@@TOE813 Law & Order is a kids show compared to New York Undercover
This show was too raw, too intense, too informative, and too real. That’s why the big TV executives steered it right off of the cliff. I used to love this show because it taught us a lot.
I definitely believe that
It was both ahead of its time and far better and more real than anything in this time. An iconic show.
The real reason it “jumped the shark” was because it was too black! When they aired the unsung episode, the writers said that dick wolf was saying widen the audience ratings are slipping (bs). It really meant “we don’t have enough white viewers! And that demographic’s real situations are very different from what black people see. Fox network wasn’t havin that
Interview Michael DeLorenzo next. I want to hear more about this show and him being a dancer in Michael Jackson's Beat It.
relax and be patient right now we dealing with Mr. Yoba.
@@spiderloco97ecc47 👌🏾😂😂😂😂
He was also on the 80s TV show Fame.
@@lisahurd7455 I think u just explained it lol
Wanna hear from him personally how he was cut out of the final season.
New York Undercover was the only cop show I watched religiously in the 90s They got no love from mainstream America but they got plenty of love from the hood💯🎥💙🔥
I am from the Bronx. Regardless of its flaws, this show will always mean something to us. Where else would you see African-American and Latino leads who both come from the BX.
New York undercover was my SHIT!! Especially with Ice T playing the villain toward the end of the show. It was a great show that never was appreciated by the powers to B, the musical guests that had at the end of the show was a highlight, funny to see his partner who played eddy in the in the Beat it video as a dancer after it aired. Great show...until they killed off the original cast members and brought in Tommy from martin...
They played all the dopest hip hop and r&b songs 💯
Its crazy that Dick Wolf worked with Ice T before any of the other SVU cast members..
I was still watching it... because they were not afraid to let reality play in
I have always liked Malik Yoba on New York Undercover. This interview made me like him even more. I always thought he was the real deal and from this interview I believe I'am right. Keep doing it my Brother!!!
New York Undercover was awsome. I loved that show. Really pissed. And fox played them.
Man I remember when i was 19 i found the show on UA-cam and i sat and binge watched everything in a few days. I love watching shows and movies that ACTUALLY represented our blocks and situations. Respect and salute to the crew and set.
That show was a classic just about all them 90's shows was a classic no need for cable back in those days lol
New York undercover was a classic tv show!
NY undercover was an amazing show. I was a young kid in love with hip hip and this show was hip hop version of law and order
If New York Undercover was on TV now it would be a hit most watch show ever
I used to love those Tommy Hilfiger jackets and Timberland boots they showed on NY undercover
Marc Echo Unlimited clothing also.
I loved NY Undercover, I never understood why Dick Wolf let the show go but keeps Law & Order and all his other shows. Thursday Line Up was the bomb! Martin, Living Single & NY Undercover.
Ebony Epps has to do with the color of the cast, we dont want to promote the idea of people of color being out front and in charge.
J.C. fued with Dannu Up (Ice-T) is one of my greatest memories of the show
Jc vs danny up and Torres vs santucci then Valdez vs Jordan
Yeah that J.C. Williams vs Danny Cort was dope throughout the season 1 and 2
New York Undercover was my FAVORITE show of my childhood!!!! Its like a part of my heart. I just knew J.C. was my man 😂😂😂😂
NYU was my moms and I favorite show to watch together when I was younger! There was and still is nothing like it!
it hurt me so bad when that show went off.
someone knew the potential because shortly after this came SVU.
My favorite cop show growing up. I still watch it when I can. The reruns. Bring back such great memories. It taught me a lot over the years and even now. Standing up for myself. It taught me about respect. Doing the right thing and not ending up in prison or dead. Thinking before I act. All of that. It introduced me to great television. This will always be favorite show, period. I still love this series. It never gets old. These were and still are my heroes.
The first time I heard Nas "It ain't hard to tell" was on NY Undercover. That track was so fire. I bought "Illmatic" the next day.
That track was never on there lol. I saw every episode.
@@pillcosby3264 it was in the opening credits one day…not one of the performances.
I watched this show every week when i was a kid. My mother turned me on to it because she was a huge living single fan, and that show used to be on every Wednesday before
I still watch New York Undercover in 2019.
On what network?
@@calviningram602 - Firestick.
Hi Lucy what specific channel on firestick
It's truly a shame NY Undercover will never be released on DVD/BluRay due to the hundreds of songs that would have to be cleared.
That shit pisses me off. It's nothing but more corporate greed. They already made their billions off the music. And they won't even allow a ten second clip...
It's business never personal. Breaking bread with your enemies isn't fun.
Every season is on Amazon prime
Its on Prime and Peacock 🙌🏾
@@Nadiyah2002 I just started from episode 1 about 3 weeks ago.
The show was great until they started screwing up the cast.
Yeah.... Remember MACNAMERA!!!???
Diamond DEE Yeah it was good with Tommy in it. But when they killed him off and Eddie, that’s when the show with down hill.
For all you younger guys...imagine NEW YORK UNDERCOVER, Martin (the ass end of the show, reruns) Fresh Prince, Jamie Foxx Show, Wayans Brothers all in a loop. On a rainy day in NYC, a hero sandwich from the bodega...you set! Miss the 90.
"Actually Vlad, New York Undercover was originally the name of a stand up special I wanted to shoot in New York City"
TK Kirkland.
I always said that that New York Undercover and The wire ate my all time favorite urban cop related shows
One of the greatest underrated shows ever💯The episode with Sticky Fingaz is classic shit 💯👊🏾
Writers etc..... could sure fu..!!!! up an great thing !!!!!/Di..!!!! Wolf / is 🐺 an a..!!!!!!
I'm mad TVOne stopped playing the reruns. ❤ this show! Also, loved him in Cool Running😂😂😂
It was on the other day BUT who the hell is up tv surfing at 245 am besides me smh
@@Br99klynINg24_8 really??? I can barely stay up until 1am to watch Living Single. 😫
They show the reruns on bet on Fridays 9pm
and now, BET airs reruns of New York Undercover, I remember its sister show Centric (formally The Jazz Channel) aired reruns on both New York Undercover & Miami Vice
@@tnawcwvictoria I've been watching it on Prime, but I saw BET started playing the reruns again
My lil bro named after this guy that's how important this show was to our fam growing up.
He reiterates selfless service at least 6-7 times during the interview. That's awesome.
*They put that show N.Y. Undercover on amazon prime, now I'm watching the first two seasons right now. Pure nostalgic.
I'm up to Season 3.
Once they killed off the Spanish dude that was the beginning of the end for the show. With him and dude who got killed off they worked well together and show was base around them.
I didn't watch after he died.
@@cocopuff6810 same here
I watched every episode of New York undercover...that was a dope show!...Really represented Hip Hop!
Hes cold blooded on The Last OG
Hes great on there
Not surprising Fox promoted "other" shows over NYU. what is surprising is the blatant disregard by Top magazines like Vibe & Jet... hmmm 🤔 may be not.
Surprising, only if you're under the illusion that "black appearing" businesses are actually under black ownership.
Surprising, only if you're under the illusion that "Black appearing" businesses are under Black ownership.
They were on the cover of JET in 96
New York Undercover helped me through my high schoolyears. 94-98!
Walter Lane III same!
yup.....rushed home from baseball practice to watch it. had that tapin on the vhs as soon as i got home. i loved this show.
Facts. Class of 98 in the building. BX right here.
New York Undercover was one of the best cop shows ever.
TOP WHAT 20
Ice-T was one of the best villains on the show
Damn right.when he shot JC s fiance
New York Undercover was a good show. S/O to Malik Yoba ⭐️🌟✨💫
I was addicted to this show..
This show made me want to move to New York although i didn't but still.
Also i discovered my love of accents as well
That's sad and surprising to hear. New York Undercover was Fire!! Everyone, I knew enjoyed and looked forward to watching it. Trying to see what singers were going to perform on the show that night. They had a very diverse cast. Malik Yoba and other main spanish male character were hot and sexy. Should've been known as sexy symbols..Malik Yoba should've had endorsements for black hanes boxers and boots, he always rocked on the show. They definitely should've had posters, magazine covers etc. They were so ahead of their time. They always do our black shows/casts members wrong. Where is the love for our black shows. That was a great show. Definitely, underrated and overlooked..Come on people, do better!!
I agree very few of our shows get the attention and respect from the mainstream like The Cosby Show, Sanford and Son, What's Happening, The Jeffersons, Kenan and Kel, In Living Color, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and that's basically about it lol. But the thing is these shows with black casts are often just as good if not even better at times than the shows with majority white casts. The marginalization is just stupid and unnecessary.
New York Undercover made Thursday nights exciting growing up
New York undercover was one of the best tv 📺 show for the culture, one of the best actors, good human being he just doesn’t get the credit
That Fox Thursday Night lineup, Martin/Living Single/New York Undercover, was fire. Never will forget how I felt when they blew up Torres in the car. #NoJCandTorres #NoShow #GottaHaveLieutenant #AndNinaTooThough
Darian Lynch Yeah I was like wtf with that episode. They killed him off because he wanted a raise I believe?
What about that episode he killed Ice T character?? Il never forget that!
Chistability Yea that's what I heard too. Heard him and Malik wanted a raise, guess they decided to only pay one of them. Smh
Nick Lee Right!! That's the one where Ice-T kidnapped G and his mom right?
One of the greatest Cop shows, a classic that had audiences interested in the drama unfolding on each and every episode. It's a shame that the show is not easily available or out on DVD for fans to acquire, been looking for it for years and never was able to find it and be able to watch and enjoy it again till now that I'm able to do so through my Amazon Prime account and it's also available on Peacock and Hulu...but both charge a premium, with Hulu being the most expensive of all 3 available options
We loved u guys back then, u made a hell of show back on the 90s. A show was relate to all of us. The simplicity of the show and accurate acting of the ppl in it made it on top with NYPD Blue, xfiles and other action shows at that time
The Internet was around just not popping like it is now
It was dial up Internet happening at that time.
Dude was chased to his death by Janet Jackson in that Tyler Perry movie 🤣
New York Undercover was a show that made an "impact" . shows nowadays don't have that factor. Miss the 90s . one love. Peace
Atleast we learned why Tommy never told the gang what he did in Martin.
I loved this show as a kid. Now I'm binge watching it on Amazon prime
Loved new york undercover
This was a very good interview. I was able to learn quite a few things from it.
Me and my chick watched New York Undercover the other day I could remember being like 6 when that show came out we piled around the TV I’m 31 now.
Aye Malik didn’t come to play. Lmaaao. “Like you are not prepared, Sittin here reading off my IMDB” lmaao
STRAIGHT called him OUT.
Lol LOL lol 😂😂😂😂😂
New York Undercover was one of the greatest TV cop shows in the 90's I ever seen Malik Yoba is such an underrated actor he should get more roles and better jobs homeboy is proving to be a winner to me most respect for you Malik Yoba but ABC is doing a reboot on New York Undercover this fall I don't know if it's going to be the same like it was in the 90s but we shall see
I hope to hell that ABC does not do a reboot of new York undercover... that reboot better not develop into a pilot and hit a TV screen or any network, streaming device, tablet, social media etc, etc , etc !!!
@@lamontscott1032 2 be real with u why not Fox reboot it they was the original network 2 do it it would be dope asf they do it this year 2 celebrate the 30th anniversary because it premier 30 years back in September of 94
@@draday7793 true , true... makes much better sense, but if they ever do (unfortunately never) it better not be on a night my other prime time shows come on
This is the BEST time for a NY Undercover reboot
I loved it New York undercover “ it was the real deal especially in the 90s
7:13 I was working at the time my undercover was airing, I'm now catching up on the program and I love it , and wonder y Wolf never kept it running like all the law and order programs, oh well at 65 years old I'm going backwards to catch up on what I was missing and I love the show ,I find myself scrolling the tv cable guide just to c where I can catch episodes ❤
George Gore got his grind from Malik. He was in everything and still does production work.
I'm watching the reruns on Peacock now and it's very nostalgic. It was a hip hop version of SVU before SVU.
I cried when they killed Torres.
Omg...I loved New York Undercover!! I still miss it to this day...
Underrated actor. He is so talented. Good people!
Wow! Not only gorgeous, commendable. Never knew about the work Malik put in behind the scenes!
One of my favorite shows growing up so glad it's on peacock and Amazon now
Watching NY Undercover on Amazon now. Always good to see a Puerto Rican portrayed positive.
Yes been watching it ever since.
Season finale "The Last Hurrah" episode from Season 3 gets me so much to this day! Dick Wolf & Andre Harrell were BOLD AS FUCK to kill off both McNamara and Torres in the SAME episode! I was just a little kid watching this with my grandmother! She'd be happy to know a reboot was coming if she were still alive! 😔😢
Actually, killing off Eddie Torres was a Dick Wolf decision!
Why da hell did they do that
@@lilcalvin7278 I always thought that Wolf was supremely pissed that both Yoba and DeLorenzo mounted that mini-strike before the start of season three. Wolf had threatened to can them and write them out if they didn’t come back to work and honor their deals. I always felt he was making a point that he was willing to sack the show in order to let them know who was in charge. Wolf wasn’t hurting at the time because in 97 Law and Order was a bona fide hit and NYU did well in the ratings 18-49, male and urban but so-so in the mainstream.
It needs more credit than that. It was a little ghetto but real and woke for its time. Addressing mad issues we still deal with today.
It really was an Magnificent Series ! As a child i loved it !
@The W.O.N. Lol
That was one of the biggest shows of all time very much underated
NY undercover was my show! But I started losing interest when they killed off characters I Liked.
New York Undercover was my favorite show back in the 90s when 8 was a kid. Love this malik malik yoba interview 👍🏿
My family used to watch this show every week when were kids and til this day it's the only cop show I ever watched
I Loved that Show....Malik Yoba😍😍😍😍🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
That’s a crime. New York Undercover was an excellent series. Powerful Messages. They showed how dangerous police work and being a police officer can be. It didn’t just show the car chases and fights and explosions, it shows what comes with it and in a honest, gritty and entertaining way and at the same time, they show if you’re interested in being a policeman or policewoman, make sure you’re ready for it. Kinda like Chicago Fire, Chicago PD. And Chicago Med is doing now. But first, it was New York Undercover and The Original Law and Order. Very Underrated Series!
I wish they would bring NYU back
It's coming back and it will air on ABC. MC Lyte will be playing the lieutenant of the squad this time. I heard about it on TV One.
@@derickg73 hell yea
It's coming back on abc, and Malik and the original cast and background people are all involved, along with the new cast, mc lyte in it, and fat Joe will play a villian
The fact that Disney is remaking it makes me worry it will be watered down. Adding all the feminists and gay stuff in the format.
@@justinwarner1183 I didnt know Disney was remaking it, dammmmmn🙄
The show didn't get the credit they truly deserve, it was a good show tho I'm a fan of Malik Yoba he's a good actor very humble
Ice-T starred as drug kingpin Danny Cort. Then he went to Law and Order SVU playing a cop.
One of the best TV shows of that time
New York Undercover is trending on Prime....get yo snacks and chill these reruns will never be boring
As long as he doesn't cry like in Why Did I Get Married?, he's ok with me.
All I know was I was a little girl(in the 90’s) who was suppose to be sleeping at 9:00pm due to it being a school night . But while my parents were in their room, I would cough so loud while I turn on the t.v. (90’s tv that when you turn it on it makes a loud noise , 😂) so that my parents wouldn’t hear it. Then I would have the t.v. on so low with the subtitles on just to watch the “New York Undercover “ tv show
I remember the theme song! So cool!
Janet Jackson did him so wrong and then went and got a lighter dude
New York Undercover was the Epitome of 90s TV Show's 💯
I love Newyork undercover classic, Malik yoba is a great actor
Once they began adding white actors, that wuz the end of the show.
They wanted the show to be more "mainstream ".
Exactly. And thats whut fucked it up. When the cast wuz mainly black and Puerto Rican, it looked and felt authentic. But once they began adding a bunch of white faces to make the show more acceptable to a wider/white audience, it lost its core audience. They did the same thing to In Living Color. Once the Wayans left and the show began to add more white characters, it lost the black audience. So many black shows throughout history got fucked up like that. Smdh.
@@cadencarlisle3772 This might be true, but consider the thought when you criticize white shows for not having black characters.
Can't have it both ways.
@@playboyv12 No one criticizes white shows for not having black actors...
@@Anonymous-ou2jd they criticize them plenty. Come on.
Damn I didn't even know Malik Yoba was offline I'm just now seeing this
I used to watch this show on our local tv station once a week here in Dubai at the time, imagine.
Was during the peak of the hiphop scene.
New York Undercover was brilliant! Miss it.