# @rollingstone on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=rNJWFhlU6JM
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/56305177-rollingstone-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-10T14:02:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) — https://gondola.cc/RollingStone

## Caption

For the past month, The Kid Mero (@accordingtothekid) — comedian, podcast host, and writer known for his irreverent humor and distinctly New York sensibility — has hosted the morning show on @hot97, his hometown’s most influential and longstanding hip-hop radio station. Hot 97 has played an outsize role for decades in debuting new hits, anointing superstars, and wading into major cultural debates; Mero’s most recent predecessor in the morning-show role is Ebro Darden, who announced the end of his 20-plus-year tenure at the station in December. Those are big shoes to fill, but Mero has stepped into them with his customary smoothness, quickly injecting a millennial POV into the airwaves. For anyone who’s watched his career grow from mid-aughts rap blogs to podcasting, late-night television, and now radio, it’s a move that makes perfect sense.

Now, #thekidmero joins Rolling Stone's Jeff Ihaza to talk about living up to the task of being the voice of New York City, fatherhood, and why he sees terrestrial radio as a natural next step for him to “create moments” for the city, bridge digital and legacy culture, and do it all for “the Mero of 10, 15 years ago.”

Read the interview with The Kid Mero on RollingStone.com here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-kid-mero-hot-97-mamdani-radio-interview-1235512744/

Listen to The Rolling Stone Interview with The Kid Mero on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kgwkKb5oPV8ZfbyW00Piy?si=fZg3bfIoSvGBn3hBTeKw8g

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Talent: The Kid Mero
Interviewer: Jeff Ihaza
Director of Social & Video: Waiss Aramesh
Head of Film & Premium Content: Alexandra Dale
Executive Producer: Christopher Hwisu Kim
Senior Producer: Viviane Feldman
Producer: Mitch Saavedra
Studio: Vizzcast
Studio Producer: Stephen Greaves
Editor: Ryan Jeffrey
Photographer: Griffin Lotz
UX Editor: Nicole Thompson 
Graphics: Jonathan Katav
Creative Director: Joe Hutchinson
Executive Music Editor: Christian Hoard
Co-Editors in Chief: Sean Woods & Shirley Halperin
CEO: Julian Holguin

https://www.youtube.com/user/rollingstone

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- **Views:** 9,863
- **Likes:** 441
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- **Comments:** 97

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