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DJ Hype is a famous local DJ. He hosts a weekly radio show as well as rap battles at the Ring, and he facilitates Bri's first rap battle. At first, Bri idolizes DJ Hype. She sees him as a person who could hold the keys to her future, and it's extremely flattering when he plays the siren for her freestyle, a signal that he likes what he hears. Bri begins to change her mind about him when she appears on his radio show for an interview. Hype pushes Bri's buttons, is extremely sexist, and makes several jokes at her expense. When Bri sees him next at the Ring, she realizes that in addition to all of this, his jokes are corny and not funny at all.
DJ Hype Quotes in On the Come Up
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Chapter 27
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It's like having a bucket of ice water thrown into my face.
Ratchet hood rat.
Thousands of people just heard me act like that. Millions more may see the video. They won't care that my life is a mess and I had every right to be mad. They'll just see an angry black girl from the ghetto, acting like they expected me to act.
Supreme laughs to himself. "You played the role," he says. "Goddamn, you played the role."
Problem is, I wasn't playing. That's what I've become.
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DJ Hype Quotes in On the Come Up
The On the Come Up quotes below are all either spoken by DJ Hype or refer to DJ Hype. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 27
Quotes
It's like having a bucket of ice water thrown into my face.
Ratchet hood rat.
Thousands of people just heard me act like that. Millions more may see the video. They won't care that my life is a mess and I had every right to be mad. They'll just see an angry black girl from the ghetto, acting like they expected me to act.
Supreme laughs to himself. "You played the role," he says. "Goddamn, you played the role."
Problem is, I wasn't playing. That's what I've become.
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