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Hugh Malcolm Downs (born February 14, 1921) is a long-time American broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game show host, and music composer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as co-host of the NBC News program Today from 1962 to 1971, host of the Concentration game show from 1958 to 1969, and anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20 from 1978 to 1999. In addition, he's served as announcer/sidekick for Tonight Starring Jack Paar, host of the PBS talk show Over Easy, and co-host of the syndicated talk show Not for Women Only.
Hugh Downs was born on St. Valentine's Day in the year 1921 in Akron, Ohio, to Edith (Hicks) and Milton Howard Downs, who worked in business. He was educated at Lima Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio; Bluffton College, a Mennonite school in Bluffton, Ohio; and Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, during the period 1938 to 1941. He worked as a radio announcer and program director at WLOK in Lima, Ohio, after his first year of college. In 1940 he moved on to WWJ in Detroit. Downs served in the United States Army during World War II in 1943 and then joined the NBC radio network at WMAQ as an announcer in Chicago, Illinois, where he lived until 1954. He married a coworker, Ruth Shaheen in 1944, 3 days after his 23rd birthday. He also attended Columbia University in New York City during 1955–56.
Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an American journalist best known for his ten years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network. Six months after Williams joined the program in December 2004, NBC News was awarded the Peabody Award for its coverage of the Hurricane Katrina story, with the award committee stating that Williams and the NBC staff displayed the "highest levels of journalistic excellence" in their reporting. In February 2015, Williams was suspended for six months from the Nightly News for "misrepresent[ing] events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003."
Born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Williams was reared in a "boisterous" Irish Catholic home. He is the son of Dorothy May (née Pampel) and Gordon Lewis Williams, who was an executive vice president of the National Retail Merchants Association, in New York. His mother was an amateur stage actress. Williams is the youngest of four siblings. He lived in Elmira, New York for nine years before moving to Middletown, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school.
Up getting high round 7 am
And my girl stop bitching I'm bout my friends
Because last niggers was going to fuck in
I stumbled through the door cloud 9, cloud 10
Yeah that was round 4, say 3 hours ago
Now I'm smoking out the crib, picking out clothes
What I'm most comfortable in...
When I think of somewhere to go
I'm scanning for a post trying to see what is here for
Slamming my card... you can't ride with me no more
I don't need a chain or a whip to get with these hoes
Work of the homie whacko, they fucking with me natural
Factual, it's time to show your bitches go, hannibal
Trying to heat a nigger alive, that's what this rap shit do
Then police is after you, niggers getting mad at you
... can't see shit... matter to you
Ah, you trying to be the boy they wonder what... happened to you
I try to be the man I did more and I plan to do
I did my thing I snatched it before they could handed tot
Earthquake... the road I'm doing...
The pain, the murder, the thoughts of suicide fool
You... no lie, and this is very true
I'm al... constructing these bars like I'm building a prison
Like... know I gotta be out of my mind
... but them niggers gotta stay outside
Diamond in the back... roof
Counting up a stack in the drive through
Late slapping, what the g's drive through
Wonder what this is, it's high tunes
Diamond in the back... roof
... gotta fit the stack in my shoe
Diamond in the back...
Counting up a stack in the drive through
Late slapping, what the g's drive through
Wonder what this is, it's high tunes