April 5, 2024 • 48 mins
The Cris David Show #guytalk Men’s Discussion Panel is back, back! Watch and listen as we talk about current events, shape-ups, voting, “Black Jenga”, mental health, Tubi movies, Country music, wild dates, your fav(es), New York radio, and more! Cris drops science, Khai drops knowledge, and we’ll chat ‘bout Joey’s TV picks. We’ll also answer your questions on our new advice segment “Ask the Guys”.
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We have an eclipse coming up on Monday.
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So listen, this is the total solar eclipse.
If you remember, we had a total solar eclipse back on August 21, 2017.
So now the difference between this total solar eclipse and the last one is the path of totality
where viewers can see the moon totally block the sun, revealing the sun's outer atmosphere,
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the corona.
Now, the corona will be much wider during this total solar eclipse than it was during
the eclipse in 2017.
As the moon orbits Earth, its distance from our planet varies.
During the 2017 total eclipse, the moon was a little farther away from Earth than it is
that it will be with the upcoming solar eclipse.
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I'm sorry, Khai, I got distracted because you turned your lights off.
You had the eclipse behind you.
Is it north?
Is it still north or is it more southern then?
Because before it was really up north a lot.
So what it looks like is it's taking a different path.
So before it was coming from northwest to southeast, and this time it's going from southwest
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to northeast.
So the thing about that is, with it being a wider path, it's going to cross a pass over
more cities.
And what densely populated areas did it in 2017.
And they're saying that an estimated 31.6 million people live in the path of totality
this year, compared to only 12 million in 2017.
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So me, Joey, and Khai, we all live in a tri-state.
So now Khai's from upstate New York.
The deal with upstate is they're in the path of totality.
So they're going to get total darkness during this eclipse.
So now where the three of us are right now, we'll probably be only at like 90 to 95% total
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darkness, which is still pretty dark.
But listen to me, folks, be safe if you're going to go out there and watch this celestial
event.
And make sure you have alternate means of communication.
Because those solar flares are going to be lit.
See what I did?
But anyway, the museums are handing out free eye-safe eclipse viewing glasses.
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I know that AMNH, American Museum of Natural History, is, check with your local museums
for info.
Now, if you're in New York, the eclipse starts at 2:10 p.m. and it reaches maximum coverage
at 3:25, ending at 4:36.
And I know some schools and jobs are doing early dismissal.
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So if you can, go down and see it.
Because the next one isn't until 2044.
I'll be a grandfather by then talking about, yeah, my daughter is married to extraterrestrial.
That's just how it is.
We want to send our condolences to all the people who lost loved ones in the tragic bridge
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collapse in Baltimore last week.
The bridge opened in 1977 as the I-695 outer harbor crossing and carried over 11 million
vehicles daily.
Now, the bridge collapsed last Tuesday, shortly before 1:30 in the morning after a container
ship that had lost power collided with one of its support pillars.
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And driven over that bridge several times.
And I know people who travel it daily.
And I just couldn't imagine a bridge just collapsing like that.
I mean, drive over a bridge here like every day just now.
So it's just it's very it's very surreal.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore has been out there on the scene ever since.
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So shout out to him and shout out to the bridge workers who stopped traffic from going over
the bridge after the collapse.
So definitely that's a big deal.
How do you deal with that?
Like if you're right at the bridge and they stop it, how do you how do they get you back?
They're doing construction on the bridge as it was.
Because typically, you know, they do construction overnight and it was one thirty in the morning.
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So when it had happened, some of the bridge workers ended up falling to their deaths.
They ended up in the river.
But the ones who were at the bridge approaches, they were able to turn the cars around and
block traffic.
It was crazy about that because my girlfriend, she got stuck behind like there was like a
four to five car pile-up that she was in standstill traffic for about two, three hours.
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So I was thinking about it like because, you know, every once in a while you'll hear about
a story in California or the San Bernardino mountains going crazy where there's a real
big pile up and then people are stuck in their car for like a week and something like that. Carmageddon.
Like I'm like, what if I got stuck on the line again?
Like how am I like you supposed to wait out the storm?
And I'm like, what if you don't know water or anything like am I just supposed to like
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what am I supposed to do in my car?
That happened in Atlanta a few several years ago, they had a really bad snowstorm.
You should always have an emergency kit in your car.
Do you have your emergency kit, guys?
Make sure you have one.
I do.
I don't.
Do you have yours?
From my Minneapolis days, I have a case of water, or half case of this by the time, a blanket
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and like a little like at least a flashlight because in Minnesota when it gets like say
your car can't start, you're stuck in the highway or snow, you got to stay warm until
you get bailed out.
So that's just something I always just keep in a like little emergency road kit.
Like let me go to the trunk and then you know, even have an emergency bottle back there just in case.
Just like.
Oh wow.
No, no, no, no.
You never thought about that until you never think you never need it until you really need
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it.
And I was like, wow, that's really good.
And then it's just never like how do I entertain myself?
Do I have to make sure you get the chargers ready?
Right?
And the car.
That's it.
But shout out to Mayor Brandon Scott too and everybody.
Mayor Scott, I'm going to lean in on you just a little bit.
I like you.
I'm just going to lean in.
It's a good lean in.
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Continue to remind those CMYK 0.0s why you're in office because the FFFFFFs be getting
out of control and they don't even live there.
They don't even live in Baltimore, but they're worried about him because of how he got elected
into office.
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Like, hey, I don't know.
But anyway, switching gears, man, people out here shooting their shot on LinkedIn.
Right?
Man… Diddy.
Oh yeah, he going to jail.
My boy going to jail, jail, jail.
You can't feed somebody mad ketamine and don't think that you're not going to jail, bro.
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She said that she'll never remember again.
She'll never remember the same way ever again.
And that's what Cassie said.
And then Yung Miami doing cocaine, it's a hell of a drug, dude.
So it's just a lot to take in.
I mean, I think it's interesting when there's rumors, but then they get solidified.
You're like, damn, who do we not believe or who was trying to tell us something?
We just said, ah, ah, ah.
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But I think it's just, I look at this as a shift in society because, you know, even the
term, you know, how we used to say the word like, gay, meaning not a Gay but different things,
but now it's like offensive.
Now the fact that people are coming out, the fact that like, I feel like my story is believable
or something.
And now you're getting that like, yo, people are going.
And I think for you to have federal indictments, like that means like they've been building
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for a while.
I have a Diddy story for you guys, but I'm not going to tell it on here because he's
still, he's still out.
So I'll share my Diddy story when I hit stop end recording.
But gangs are still running Haiti and cinnamon is being recalled for lead.
I heard about that. Yeah that’s a whole thing in itself.
So, you know, what else is crazy?
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Joey, KFC is selling chicken breasts with pepperoni pizza on top.
Oh yeah, that's silly.
That's silly.
Hey, you know what else you know, what's crazy?
Khai, Burger King is selling liquor on DoorDash.
That's cool.
I can see that being a that's kind of cool.
Yeah.
Let me get a Jack & Coke with my Whopper.
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No, no, it's not cool.
You know why it's not cool?
Because you know what my mind goes.
My mind goes back to David Hasselhoff drunk as a skunk eating that Whopper on the floor.
That's where my mind goes.
That's Baywatch right there.
That's Baywatch.
David Hasselhoff.
David Hasselhoff.
You know, people in Germany love that guy.
The Germans love him.
Yo, you know what's crazy?
So he had an R&B album back in the day, like a pop R&B type album.
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And I remember watching his concert on TV on a Saturday afternoon.
I was on punishment and I'm like, oh, who is this white man that he's jamming?
It was David Hasselhoff.
He had bops.
Like it was anyway.
Listen, this April.
Black Jenga season is about to start back up again.
So you know about Black Jenga, right?
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Do yall know what Black Jenga is?
I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm here to smile and be...
All right, yall ready?
Yall ready?
No, you're going to know exactly what it is once I tell you.
Yall ready?
Yall ready for Black Jenga?
So Black Jenga is when you're at a cookout or any other gathering with Black folks and
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they keep stacking the trash on top of the trash can.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Instead of just dumping it.
Yes I’ve seen that.
So here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
Whoever puts the trash on top and it tips over, they’ve got to dump the trash.
So that's Black Jenga.
Oh I got you.
That's funny.
I've never seen that.
No, so that's Black Jenga.
You heard it here first on The Cris David Show.
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And we're also coming out of Women's History Month.
So shout out to all the women.
We love you.
I still have my post up from last year, you know, from women's history month.
So they're on my IG.
So you know, definitely check them out if you have a chance to go on IG.
Check those out.
A lot of wonderful women.
Something you guys asked me too, like what happened with the cashier at Walmart who was
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assaulted on Black Friday.
She actually ended up not pressing charges.
So that's that.
I mean, retail is crazy.
I mean, we've all worked retail.
You know, you work retail, right?
Yeah, I was the best CVS cashier where I made people feel special...
Wait a minute.
What CVS?
Not the CVS on Washington?
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No, no, no, not that one.
The one across the street from St. Peters.
Oh, okay.
The college ghetto CVS.
That one’s not too bad.
I feel that one was more white, suburban, but the one near Delaware Avenue.
Oh, okay.
Where the family's from.
That was the one.
I was like, oh, you robbing, robbing.
Oh, you stealing, stealing? You stealing, stealing!
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Yeah, they stealing.
My retail experience is always more so like big box.
I can't do anything with food because nah, I don't want you to be like, you touched this.
You know, like I ain't doing that.
Joey, what about you?
What about you?
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You ever worked retail?
You worked retail, right?
I worked retail.
I did.
I worked at American Eagle.
Best denim specialist in the Northeast.
You know what I mean?
I worked...
Yeah, I think that was mostly my retail.
I also worked at a carpet store.
I worked at Harry Katz Carpet.
Shout out to Long Island, New York, MiNe-Yola.
Yeah, he was the one that gave me my first...
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That was my first job.
So they let a young kid just play around in the showroom, put the carpets away.
And then when they, yeah, they needed a little bit of heavy lifting, they had to do that.
But basically I was there to clean up, take naps on the furniture.
I was about to get to hang out with the old timers.
They were actually pretty chill.
They were pretty chill.
Yo, this show was magical back then.
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Wasn't I just talking about Oriental rugs and then you mentioned that you worked at
a carpet store?
I did. That’s crazy!
I did work at it.
I worked there.
We were going to talk about me working on a catering cruise ship, which was definitely
a different experience.
Okay.
What was that about?
I gotta know this.
Yeah.
So basically if you have a little function like the kids' boat day, senior boat trip,
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you'd go to the marina, you'd load the kids on.
And then I was the one that was bringing stuff.
Because the kitchen, of course, is in the hole in the under deck.
So you have to basically, you have to climb up these really steep steps with the food
or basically you hand it up, they'll bring it up and then you serve the tables.
And it's what you think of any catering hall, except that it's a floating catering hall.
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So that was cool.
I worked at this photo lab in Target and the photo lab was crazy.
I mean, all kinds of pictures used to come through the photo lab.
Oh, I bet.
So it was just one time.
This is one situation.
This is crazy.
This was wild.
It really wasn't like looking back on it like today.
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It's really not that wild.
But back then, it was like, whoa, what the hell?
So this one day I come in from, I was in class and then I came to do my shift.
And she's like, Cris, Cris, you got to see these pictures.
You got to look at these pictures.
And I'm like, okay, can I put my bookbag down first?
What the hell?
So.
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So.
Yeah, the spicy...
He reported it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, so, so Khai of knows where I'm going with this.
Kind of knows where I'm going with this.
Okay, so, you know, I started looking at the pictures.
So like this girl dropped off these one hour photos because we did one hour and we did
overnight.
So she drops off these one hours and I don't know if the guy was her man or if it
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was just some random guy or I don't know what the story was.
But it's this guy in the photos and he's this, really... Ooh, ok.
Buff, stripper looking guy.
And so the first picture I'm just like, okay, he has his shirt off, he has jeans on,
like cowboy hat.
What the hell?
And then there's this last picture.
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And dude is like just full, just full frontal, just everything is out.
And so she's like, oh my God, that motherfucker got too much dick!
Oh wow.
And I'm like yeah.
So our other coworker comes in and by this point, the girl had already came to pick up
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her pictures or whatever, the pictures were gone.
And so Miss Betty, Miss Betty is trying to describe to the girl what the guy's stuff
looked like.
So she goes, you had to see that shit!
Motherfucker had a dick this long.
And this motherfucking thick.
When they hand down the baton, they gave him the baton like here, use it how you shall.
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And pay a tribute.
Yeah, that was a tribute.
Yeah, but the photos, that was a tribute.
So before we go, Beyoncé’s country joint, the Renaissance Act Two, Cowboy Carter, came
out last Friday.
So since Act Two, this is what I want to know from you guys.
So since Act Two is heavily country influenced, what do you think her Act Three is going to
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be?
Anything she wants it to be.
So right now I was talking about that.
So this is when you hit the pinnacle.
You know when you've done everything, like the most famous, like Brad Pitt, he probably
stops acting because once you're a soup, once you hit the highest, once you're the apex
of that type, there's no, she's almost at the point where she's, like Beyonce is already
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goated, like one of the greatest or is the greatest or whatever, however you want to
describe her.
At this point, she's just doing stuff for the art of it, for the craft.
And this is not her best album.
It doesn't matter.
Like I had a hundred number one hits already.
Like another number one hit, whether it does good or not, won't matter to me because I'm
at the pinnacle of success.
Like Andre 3000, they're like, when are you going to start rapping again?
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I'm done with rap.
I want to play the flute and do other music because we already did that.
We already had like Drake and the rest of these guys.
After I have 700 Grammys, like if I want to make a quirky song with the new country singer,
then I'm going to do that.
There's nothing stopping me.
And you also don't limit these people's freedom.
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Is Beyoncé a country singer?
Now she is.
No one will say she's a country singer, but if you want to look at her as a country singer,
she has the right to, whether you agree, whether you like it or not, she made a country song
and people like Beyoncé country music.
So like I said, this is when you're super successful and super talented and you have
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nothing else to do with your time, but just to try other shit.
So go for it.
I'm all for it.
No, one thing I love about this, it's what things you read online, but just also I love
her.
This is like, this is her get back.
This is her lick.
So 2016 was she was at a CMA award with Dixie Chicks and she performed.
They got so much hate because they're like, oh, Beyoncé is not, you know, country or whatever.
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Then actually took down her performance because the comments that they were spewing, spewing
and the least thing for a Dixie trick said they hated that because for them, that was
one of the best weeks ever.
They're like, we appreciate Beyoncé's work ethic because being able to perform with her
one thing, but like see how she worked.
They're like, we gained a whole new understanding and following of this woman.
So based off of how her experience, I think she's been plotting this for a while when
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she couldn’t just say now, technically my shit registers as country.
So and if I have the biggest country album of the year, what the CMA’s, you got to do
something about it.
Right.
And even the fact that even if it's not the album, the fact that she's featuring country
artists, the Black country artists on her tracks, it falls into the category.
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So I think it's one of those genius moves like you hurt me, nine, whatever years ago
and now I'm coming back.
But I think it's also the creativity, right?
The thing is, apparently she had this before Renaissance, but she wanted to, the world
needed to read Act I before she got this one.
I think it goes to the fact of who she is as an artist, the fact that she can do so
much because her voice lends to it too.
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Because most artists, like I love K. Michelle, she has a great voice, but we can't play K. Michelle
happy songs.
It wouldn’t work.
But it does a testament, I think it's also, you put out two back to back albums, you go
on tour, she's going to need a break at some point.
I think instead of that break, but Act Three, if there is one.
I say she probably goes more, you know, Caribbean, Afro-Beats, if you remember, even though the
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Lion King live action movie wasn't the best, that album, We Are King or what is attached
to it.
Black Is King.
Love it.
People loved it.
So it's this creative genius, her team's great, she knows what she's doing, she knows
How to keep the people captivated.
It's just a range of emotions where, and even if you aren't the biggest Beyoncé fans, the
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songs from what I've been listening, because I've had people as soon as Midnight
come down like, yo, you gotta fucking listen to this.
I'm like, yo, she's doing her thing.
So I appreciate this.
And it's interesting, cause Jay Z knew she was sitting on this and he presented album
of the year.
The Grammy, that was like, isn't that crazy?
He knew, he knew, but I think it's just, I'm happy that this moment's happening for her,
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for us, because it goes to show that the versatility of Black people, we are not monolithic, we're
not in the box.
The fact that we can do things and make it great.
It's almost the fact that people keep gatekeeping shit from us because they know we come in
and we're going to do it.
I'm happy in my lifetime where I actually got to see Beyoncé’s transformation.
Cause there's a lot of greats that you see later on, like Michael, I know I appreciate,
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I didn't get to appreciate his early stuff.
You know, even Off The Wall, it wasn't until, you know, he was-
Well Khai, you weren't here yet.
Like what do you mean?
He was in the seventies.
He was going crazy in the seventies.
So he grew up with, like my mother and them, he grew up with their generations.
I'm getting, we are not alone.
I'm like seven trying to say like, what's going on here?
Who's Lisa Marie Presley?
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Yeah.
So wait a minute.
You mentioned Lisa Marie.
Fun fact about Lisa Marie Presley.
If you have the Janet Jackson album called The Velvet Rope, there's an interlude on the
Velvet Rope. No way! And she's talking to another woman and the woman says to her, your coochie's
going to swell up and fall apart.
That's Lisa Marie Presley who says that.
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Your coochie's gonna swell up.
So here's the deal.
So for Black Music Month last year, Black Music Month for all of you who don't know
is in June, every June, I did an interview with one of the founders of Black Music Month,
Ms. Dyana Williams.
And it's fun talking with her because she's highly intuitive and she always knows the
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direction music is going to take.
I love country, Black country artist, Brittany Spencer is one of my clients and she is a hip hop artist.
I'm sorry, a country artist from Baltimore who lives in Nashville, Rissy Palmer, Mickey
Guyton and a woman named Frankie Staton who was the pioneer, grown woman, close to my
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age, Frankie Staton.
Yeah, there's a great documentary if you love country music and it focuses on Black country
artists.
It's called For Love and Country, I believe it is.
There's a wonderful woman named Treena Ferebee who a lot of people should know.
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She is the incarnation of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
She plays the guitar, she performs.
Treena Ferebee, love her.
Khai you mentioned K. Michelle earlier and the thing with K. Michelle is she's been doing
country indirectly for like her entire career.
And she had an album out about 10 years ago and it was called Anybody Want to Buy a Heart
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and that album cover is anyway.
Shout out to K. Michelle and the street single, because you know, I'm everywhere,
the street single was a record called Going Under and it's like a mid-tempo record,
it's kind of trappy but the lyrics are sad without resolve, which has all the makings
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of a country record.
If you listen to country music, country music is very sad.
But you know, I like how she plays with different genres, like none of her music is symmetric
and she samples The Message on the hook.
But I hope though with Beyoncé going down this country road, it'll open up listeners
to some of the other Black artists who are out here doing country and they have been
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for some time.
Like Linda Martell, who is actually, she has a record with Linda on the new album.
She's one of the first, she was the first successful Black female country artist.
But I think Beyonce's Act III, if I had to do a prediction, I think it'll be hip
hop.
Like some people have been saying rock and she's going to go in a rock direction.
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Some people have been saying, you know, she's going to go back to strictly R&B.
But I mean, I just think that she's going to be, she's going to do rap.
She's going to be, you know, trap Bey.
I really do.
I think she's going to do a rap thing.
And speaking of rap, we do, we had a game, but we're going to play it next time because
running out of time.
What did you guys think of the Super Bowl?
We haven't been on in a long time.
So I mean, I got to ask you.
I mean, that's Ursher.
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Like that man went off and the fact of like, what I don't like about a lot of
new music is I don't see the longevity happening.
I see a lot of things are, you know, produced crazily good production, but I don't see it
being here in five, six, seven years.
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The fact that Usher had been doing this since 16, but like he was able to do his, he did
his hits, he even do all his hits.
Everyone was more things like he did Superstar, I was surprised, but it's one of those things
that was such a great show to understand.
Like that's a true act.
Like part of me wish I would have went to the residency to see artistry, for what it is
because they don't turn them out the way the used to, right?
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Someone that could dance, sing, hit the notes, giving you actually a show versus a performance.
And that's why I really got out of that.
Like I tuned in and I'm like, yo, this man got it still never lost it.
Even still making new music that still works for today's sound.
But the fact that he's still keeping his individuality.
I wasn’t even pressed like that's what I wanted for the, that's what I wanted for the Super
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Bowl.
The game was whatever, you know, ain't no Cowboys in it.
So we good.
But
Joey, what about you?
No.
Yeah.
Like I said, I said, I said, Usher is a legend.
And the way he, the way he grabbed Alicia, butt like she gave him the look, like if I
was Swizz Beatz, I'd be like, yo, stop putting your hands on my girl.
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But me and you are cool.
We're cool dog, but.
Watch your hands.
You're getting a little handsy with my girl.
But other than that, like I said, he is the, he definitely gave the resident.
Yeah.
He definitely gave the Vegas show for the people.
Like he gave everybody the Vegas show because that's what he's giving them in Vegas.
And yeah, that is, that's a performance.
And that's why, that's why he'll stand above, like going to like one of the, one of these
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other rap shows because they're not giving you a show.
They're just giving you them rapping on top of their already pre-recorded tracks.
And you just see them just jumping around and things like that.
And like, yeah, like, no, I, they, the reason why Beyoncé is getting sold out shows and
multi-city deals is because when she gives a show, you're not only going to get the production,
you're going to get the lights, you're going to get the costume changes, you're going to
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get this and that, you're going to get the bells and the whistles.
You're going to get an experience.
Yeah.
And that's it. That’s what people want.
That's the way, like I'm not the biggest Beyonce fan, but everybody that went to that concert
in Philly were like, oh, that was a show.
That was like, oh my God.
Like, oh my God.
Okay.
So that means there has to be something there. The two of them, I refer to her as female
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Usher and I refer to him as male Beyoncé because the two of them give, they’re performers, they
give a show.
And I think they are the last of those types of performance that really give a show.
I saw Beyoncé years ago, probably 20 years ago at the Garden.
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Khai mentioned Superstar, that record Superstar.
And it was, it was so surreal watching Usher and then just seeing all of the Black people
in the audience singing along to that, because that's one of those records that
just resonates with Black folks.
I feel like that's one of our software updates.
You know, when you hear superstar, you all know the words to that.
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I mean, honestly, I wasn't feeling the game itself.
So I mean, I had to see my guy, I had to see him do his big one and shout out to
the NUPES.
You know, who performed in the show because they were there, they were performing, dancing
with him.
But who do you think is going to perform next year?
Good question.
It could be anybody.
That's like, whatever is going to make them the most money, basically, because it could
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be anybody hot.
It can be somebody who's trusted and true.
That right there can be anything.
They could, if Glorilla and Sexyy Red, if they get enough American appeal, they'll put
them in the next Halftime show.
You know what I mean?
It's just who's popular and who can you put on there that's going to make 10 million,
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500 million, whatever that number is.
How are you going to make that many people tune into your Halftime show?
You know what's going to be interesting?
Honestly, I think about how this election will go.
Are we going to talk politics now?
We already did.
I already covered that.
That's done.
I'm done with politics for the day.
The NFL has always been tuned to the likes and things of white America.
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So if it goes one way, I think they're going to go back to like... I would like to see
Jelly Roll.
I want to see Jelly Roll do it.
It might be a country again some artists, but I think it's actually shifting back to-
Ed Sheeran is definitely a front runner for sure.
Ed Sheeran or somebody like something like that.
But you know, I don't think the rural whites like Ed Sheeran like that.
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That's what I was saying.
I think his popularity has waned.
His time probably to do that was probably six, seven years ago.
It's definitely going to be a 90s rock band, unless you get Justin Timberlake coming back
to do it with NSYNC or something.
Yeah, but they do that also just for fun.
Let's give Justin another show.
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Let's have it one more time.
More money for Justin Timberlake, yay.
Yeah, let's do it.
But honestly, I think they're shifting...
This is fun.
It's been cool, but they got to shift back to their major fan base in some way, shape
or form.
But you know, that fan base is dying off too.
That's actually true.
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Joey, you mentioned something earlier when you were talking about that Villanova-Creighton
game.
And you were talking about those two basketball players looking biracial.
Yeah, one was a white kid, the other kid was...
Oh, one was white and one was biracial.
But if you look at the NBA, if you look at the NBA, you look at some like not a lot of
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the NFL, but you look at a large portion of it, it's biracial.
That's where things are kind of going.
But that's another thing.
I'm writing this stuff down because this is all stuff I want to revisit on future shows
but... so here's who I think
Lizzo, mark my words.
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I see it.
Lizzo, that's because she's like, I'm going to quit and all this other stuff.
Right.
But then she's also losing weight.
She's doing different...
I've heard rumors.
She's doing different things with her sound.
So she may come back out, you know, toward the middle or the end of the year because
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we're still kind of in the beginning of the year, but she may come back out and everybody
loves her again.
And then she's on stage in February.
I don't know.
Lizzo, we know not everybody loves her enough to put her on a main stage like that.
Now listen, the wives of the people who like the NFL, they love Lizzo.
Lizzo is very big in the suburbs.
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I don't know why...
She's very big in the suburbs.
Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift.
Didn't she already have one?
No, I don't think...
I've never seen a Taylor Swift.
I don't know.
But while we're talking about music though, what happened to Verzuz?
Like that's literally like the only thing from the pandemic that I've missed.
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We're outside of quarantine.
That was the quarantine special.
That's the only thing I missed from the pandemic.
It's like a Tory Lanez...
Yeah, that's like actually what happened to Tory Lanez.
Oh, we know what happened to Tory Lanez.
His own fault.
That was his own fault.
Yeah, we know what happened to Tory.
But Khai, what the...
Yo, what's your take on Verzuz when...
You watched Verzuz, right?
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You watched Verzuz.
I did.
And it was what the culture needed because it's all those back of the school table, all
those different conversations.
We were exactly like, who was better than this?
You know, who's that?
And I think I really understood that.
You understand what people had catalogs and what people had time to sound.
Sometimes what I wanted to say, like I look at the one between who had a deeper appreciation
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for it, but I think I didn't really get it because it was up north, Ludacris.
Going hypocritical against Nelly because I was like, oh, Nelly was cool and all that.
But I'm like, yes, Nelly has Sweat Suit and country hop and all that before.
But like going through Ludacris' collection, he has something for everything.
And I really appreciate that.
I got to rediscover.
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Artists all over again for the first time.
I actually go back and say, like, oh, I knew what songs were released, but I never owned
a Ludacris CD.
I just whatever was on the radio or MTV Jams.
But it allowed me to go back and understand artists a little bit differently.
And I love seeing the actual, like, I love seeing our community embrace and have fun.
Again, the best show ever, though, was The Lox vs. Dipset.
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You can't tell me Jada ain’t top five now after that. That was scary.
Yeah, but also, like, I think it brings a good competition.
I was scared.
It brings a good competition, but also it brings that, like, also, like some artists
are like, like with the what was it?
The Keyshia Cole, Ashanti.
So that one guy that one went astray because like, Keyshia thinks that I'm...
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You know what I mean?
It's like my status.
It's a status thing.
Like, well, I'm just as important as like, first of all, Ashanti has way more music than
you, Keyshia.
So you can't be like, I'm a bigger celebrity or star.
You know what I mean? Now you starting to…
Drake doesn't want to do a Chris Brown versus because my thing, you know what I mean?
Chris Brown is like my catalog.
I've been doing this for 20 years.
You're going to have to bring somebody that has 20 year’s worth of material to even come
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and talk to me because you put in me, you putting the Temptations and the whatchamacallits
on that same platform makes sense.
Like Earth, Wind and Fire and whatchamacallit together.
That makes sense.
You putting Nelly versus Ludacris.
That can most likely make sense.
You know what I mean?
Now, if you have somebody that's too famous, then it's not going to start making sense
anymore because like you can't who you're going to put against Chris Brown because
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Brown has too many albums, too many songs and every song.
Now the newer ones, he's giving you 40 songs per album.
He's got his Afro-beats coming out.
Yeah.
You know, for me, though, I think the Mario Omarion was the last one I saw.
And I mean, I ride for Mario.
Shout out to him, but listen, that was Bobby V.'s night.
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He had the crowd just in a trance.
That was his night.
All the way.
But wait, what the hell was going on with Ray J. and Sammie?
it was giving coke rage or something.
They only had one song.
So I don't even know how that was even a thing.
How would they even think that would be a thing?
You know what I mean?
And why didn't he do Wait A Minute?
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Wait A Minute.
is probably the most recognizable, I guess Ray J. record probably for people our age.
Ray J. That's the only Ray J. record.
He also had Sexy Can I
That was like his crossover record.
But, Wait A Minute.
I was a teen, a little teenager when that came out and
Yeah, I remember that too.
You couldn’t tell me that, you know, I wasn't doing something with that record.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Right.
Exactly. Workin’ all day. In the clubs.
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It’s on tonight.
Yeah.
I mean, Ray J is so polarizing.
Ray J is my guy.
I like Ray J. But he just makes it hard sometimes for me to root for him.
But this is the other thing.
This is my other thing.
Where was Lloyd?
I mean, if you're going to bring all the guys out, where was Lloyd at?
I go hard for Lloyd.
You know, Lloyd.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
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Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Yeah, Young Money.
I don't know.
I think he's still Young Money.
So I don't know.
That might be a whole different production thing, type of thing.
So he was on the, they did the updated Scream Tour with the adults.
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He was on that for the Verzuz.
It's almost like, cause he's early, because he was like, other, you know?
He's in that realm.
But for some reason, he doesn't get the respect he needs, you know?
He doesn't.
He doesn't at all.
Like Lloyd, let me tell you, let me say something real quick.
Let me say something real quick.
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Music producers, make Lloyd your muse.
And specifically, Kaytranada, I'm talking to you.
And I see you on that phone.
And you ain't talking to nobody.
You better wear your eclipse glasses too.
Anyway, Sak Passe, Kay.
No, no, but not for nothing.
Chris should have been on Verzuz.
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I think him and Ne-Yo would have probably been the craziest option.
Him and Ne-Yo would have probably, that would have been crazy.
Ne-Yo, I don't know, but cause do you only do it from their past work?
Cause like I said, Chris Brown is still making, he made 11:11.
I’m going to the Chris Brown concert tomorrow.
He's still doing stuff.
You know what I mean?
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Like I haven't heard Ne-Yo.
Ne-Yo had problems with his girl and I watched that in the news.
That's all I know about Ne-Yo.
You know what I mean?
Like, is there, he's not the same Ne-Yo that used to sing to me.
You know what I mean?
That I wanted to turn my, to go bald and put on a fedora hat.
You know what I mean?
Like that's not.
Joe, you wanted to go bald?
And put a fedora on?
You try to say, yeah, sexy can I, you know what I mean?
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That's funny.
You know what?
Listen, I know I'm late.
I know I'm late.
I don't care if fight me, but you know what?
Shout out to Swizzy and Tim and bring Verzuz back.
I'm like, no, it's crazy.
Cause I'm like, I've been in this place where I live right now since like summer,
2022.
And I was thinking like, what have I missed watching since I lived here?
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And it was Verzuz.
And I mean, I don't really watch TV.
Like TV to me, TV is very sad.
Like that's why like, I like that you guys recommend shows and stuff.
Cause like actual terrestrial TV is just, I mean, outside of Abbott
Elementary and like The Neighborhood, I'm watching Dabl.
I'm watching reruns of Family Matters and Black-ish.
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Oh yeah.
That's all day.
Yeah.
You might as well watch nonstop Ridiculousness.
I'm satisfied with those four shows.
Like I'm satisfied with those four shows.
Like I'm satisfied.
Have you, have you watched Dabl?
Do you know about Dabl?
This is new.
So, so, okay.
So I'm going to explain Dabl to yall.
So Dabl is this channel.
It's not cable.
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It's actually on cable.
And I don't know what the number is.
If you have Comcast or Optimum, but I have FiOS.
And on files, it's 482.
And they show the same shows all day.
The Parkers.
The Game.
Sister Sister, One On One, Half and Half, Girlfriends.
it's just a constant rotation of 90s and early 2000s UPN and CW shows
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a lot of those shows I've missed too, because when they first ran, I was out at the club.
So I didn't get to see those shows.
You know, at night.
there's this other channel I found is called.
Catchy Comedy.
And they show Alf.
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Do you guys remember Alf with the alien?
Yeah.
That’s a throwback.
We had a puppet of Alf.
Yeah.
Of the Alf character.
I had the puppet.
And I had his poster.
Speaking of good and wholesome.
IG went out again.
Apparently.
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See.
I keep telling you about those solar flares.
Keep telling yall.
Yeah.
I haven't been on IG in two months.
That's another thing.
Things to do to help your mental health.
Right.
If you're sad.
Unplug.
Yes.
You know, if you’re sad.
Stay off of IG.
If you're sad, don't drink as much.
Because you know what you do when you know what you do when you're sad, you drink.
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But you know what drinking does?
It makes you more sad.
So do you want to be sad and drunk?
That's never a bad...
That's never a good combo.
Khai are you on IG right now?
Khai I'm going to get my belt.
So listen, I only listen.
I only use IG for the show.
I mean, I'm getting better.
You know what I mean?
Because I post an annual thirst trap.
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You know, for @crisdavidtv at least once a summer.
But I mean, social media just as a whole is just not my thing.
I'm not invested.
Clock app, Bird app is not for me.
even MySpace and Black Planet back in the day.
Oh, Migente.
Migente, Asian Avenue.
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But it was just never my thing.
I mean, TV and radio was social media for me.
that's how we found out what was going on.
Like Video Music Box.
Like on Friday nights when you hear, 5 Minutes Of Funk
you're about to get your videos, your interviews, you know, whatever.
Whatever happened that week.
Like shout out to Uncle Ralph too.
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And I mean, Joey, you know what?
So Joey, you grew up listening to Hot97 in the morning.
You used to listen to it in the morning.
Yeah, Funkmaster Flex.
Do you remember?
Okay.
So listen, do you remember the time that Remy Ma was on Miss Jones?
Do you remember that?
Miss Jones in The Morning?
Yes.
Yeah, I remember Miss Jones in The Morning.
Yes.
So Khai, Khai, you don’t know this story, but I'm going to tell you this story.
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I'm going to tell you this.
So this always stayed with me.
So, so, so she's like, what are you mixed with?
How come you be sounding mad Spanish?
And Remy goes, I'm Black.
And Jonesy’s like, I know, but what else?
And Remy's like, and more Black.
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It was good.
It was just so good.
Like Hot97 was social media.
And the crazy thing is Khai, we and Joey had a similar moment because I was like,
Joey, you Puerto Rican, ain't you?
And Joey's like, no, I'm Dominican and Cuban.
And I was like, yeah, I knew you were Afro-Latin
I just couldn't, I couldn't figure out, you know, which one or whatever.
Yeah. The k lo k! Que lo que?!
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figure out which one.
But like, you know, so it's funny speaking to Hot97, there's this comedian,
his name is Jimmy Martinez.
And he reminds me of Joey.
But anyway, Jimmy used to be on the morning show at Hot like way back in like ’02. ‘03.
So he's on YouTube.
And he's telling a story about how him and Jaheim got into like this melee up at the station.
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They were like throwing computer monitors at each other, like old school computer monitors,
like what yall used to do today.
But like, then he has this other video where he's talking about LL.
And like, yeah, it's just crazy, man.
Shout out to Miss Jones.
Shout out to Wendy.
Guys, like if you have a chance, like check out Wendy's documentary.
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It was Lifetime.
It was really, really sad.
Oh, Wendy Williams. Nice.
Yeah.
I'll tell you guys about that later because I got to wrap the show.
But anyway, just before we go, listen, listen, Wendy will always be one of my deepest earliest radio inspirations.
Like I grew up listening to Wendy.
She's one of my deepest references.
Her and Flex. Love, Flex every night.
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Funkmaster Flex night?
Funkmaster Flex night!
Exactly.
I love Funk, but he'd be dropping too many bombs.
Like let this, because you'll wait until you’re at the part where you’re vibing.
And then he’ll bring it back.
And be like no, America's you’re not ready for this right now. Start it now dude just play the song.
I love the bombs. Where do you think I got the bombs from?
I stole them from Flex.
I broke into Flex's studio and stole them from Flex.
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But the thing is, this is the thing.
It just vexes me that we have people out here today who are like emulating Wendy based on what they think she was.
And so I just want to say to everybody, like do me a favor.
If you didn't grow up in New York City tri-state, or Philly, or Charleston, where Fiona's from, who wrote the letter earlier,
or Shreveport or Toledo or Columbia, South Carolina, I'm going to need you to leave it alone.
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And that's it. Leave it alone.
Anyway, Joey, Khai, any takeaways?
I appreciate these type of conversations, the positivity, the might of thought, the disagreement.
It's just sometimes we get so wrapped up in an all of the world we create, we fail to look outside.
And this is the moment of looking outside.
Where I can then look outside and do the internal reflection on what's needed.
But I just appreciate this time like no other.
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Like this is something that's really, really like I appreciate you for doing this.
I appreciate you, Joey.
I appreciate this as something for a safe space for Black men to be in this actually get to know each other outside the context of what the world expects us to do.
My take away is that, like I said, I love the platform.
I love being on here. I love just difference of opinion.
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It seems that we have more like everything.
We have 90 percent of commonality things, just like all people.
The person next to you, you're probably 90 percent like and then that 10 percent what makes you different is what makes you unique.
So hearing from your experience and then counteracting it with my experience and everybody else's have different outlooks on life, different places, different spaces.
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It's so it's so interesting to see how we're alike, but then also how different parts of our lives continue to just shape the direction that we continue to want to go in and then things that we would like to see.
Let's have more inclusion and let's continue to like lift and empower each other.
You know what I mean?
You know, the bulk of our answering time, you know, answering Ask the Guys know this is stood out for me was questions dealing with some type of body image.
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it was Keesha and her nose, Jae with his weight.
And, you know, both of them are young.
So it's, you know, younger than we are.
And I can't help but blame social media, you know, for their judgment. it's really, really dangerous.
And I mean, really quickly, I saw this guy, this fitness guy.
He's popular on Instagram and he's going up the stairs at Union Square with a 300 pound barbell on his shoulders.
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Like during rush hour, you know, just I don't know.
This is why I say don't base your goals off of what you see online.
And when we talk about algorithms, I know that the people who get pushed to the top are deceptively attractive.
But me and Joey and Khai are how real men look out here in the real world.
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So just remember that.
Yeah, we don't got perfect noses.
We don't have perfect noses.
We have regular.
We got regular.
You know what I mean?
We got regular bodies.
We only look at a small amount of porn, not too much porn where it's a problem.
All right.
Oh, yeah. Not you guys.
All right.
But my brothers thank you for being here. Thank you for having me.
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Everybody clap it up for Joey Black, a/k/a Joey tha Heckler and our official Cris David Show mixologist, Mr. Joey Baston.
All right.
And your favorite person's favorite person.
Champagne Kola Papi, the Chunky Jaden Smith, Black Khaina, Supreme Khai, LL Cool K, Mr. Khai Thomas.
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I'm your host, Cris David.
I'm a journalist and a cultural commentator.
I'm Blacker in a seafood feast bus trip.
All of my monikers are below.
All right.
We are and this is The Cris David Show Guy Talk Men's Discussion Panel.
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Okay.
Real talk.
I will Swiss cheese you.
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No weirdos.
Like seriously.
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Be kind and be well.
We have an eclipse coming up on Monday.
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So listen, this is the total solar eclipse.
If you remember, we had a total solar eclipse back on August 21, 2017.
So now the difference between this total solar eclipse and the last one is the path of totality
where viewers can see the moon totally block the sun, revealing the sun's outer atmosphere,
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the corona.
Now, the corona will be much wider during this total solar eclipse than it was during
the eclipse in 2017.
As the moon orbits Earth, its distance from our planet varies.
During the 2017 total eclipse, the moon was a little farther away from Earth than it is
that it will be with the upcoming solar eclipse.
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I'm sorry, Khai, I got distracted because you turned your lights off.
You had the eclipse behind you.
Is it north?
Is it still north or is it more southern then?
Because before it was really up north a lot.
So what it looks like is it's taking a different path.
So before it was coming from northwest to southeast, and this time it's going from southwest
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to northeast.
So the thing about that is, with it being a wider path, it's going to cross a pass over
more cities.
And what densely populated areas did it in 2017.
And they're saying that an estimated 31.6 million people live in the path of totality
this year, compared to only 12 million in 2017.
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So me, Joey, and Khai, we all live in a tri-state.
So now Khai's from upstate New York.
The deal with upstate is they're in the path of totality.
So they're going to get total darkness during this eclipse.
So now where the three of us are right now, we'll probably be only at like 90 to 95% total
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darkness, which is still pretty dark.
But listen to me, folks, be safe if you're going to go out there and watch this celestial
event.
And make sure you have alternate means of communication.
Because those solar flares are going to be lit.
See what I did?
But anyway, the museums are handing out free eye-safe eclipse viewing glasses.
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I know that AMNH, American Museum of Natural History, is, check with your local museums
for info.
Now, if you're in New York, the eclipse starts at 2:10 p.m. and it reaches maximum coverage
at 3:25, ending at 4:36.
And I know some schools and jobs are doing early dismissal.
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So if you can, go down and see it.
Because the next one isn't until 2044.
I'll be a grandfather by then talking about, yeah, my daughter is married to extraterrestrial.
That's just how it is.
We want to send our condolences to all the people who lost loved ones in the tragic bridge
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collapse in Baltimore last week.
The bridge opened in 1977 as the I-695 outer harbor crossing and carried over 11 million
vehicles daily.
Now, the bridge collapsed last Tuesday, shortly before 1:30 in the morning after a container
ship that had lost power collided with one of its support pillars.
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And driven over that bridge several times.
And I know people who travel it daily.
And I just couldn't imagine a bridge just collapsing like that.
I mean, drive over a bridge here like every day just now.
So it's just it's very it's very surreal.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore has been out there on the scene ever since.
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So shout out to him and shout out to the bridge workers who stopped traffic from going over
the bridge after the collapse.
So definitely that's a big deal.
How do you deal with that?
Like if you're right at the bridge and they stop it, how do you how do they get you back?
They're doing construction on the bridge as it was.
Because typically, you know, they do construction overnight and it was one thirty in the morning.
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So when it had happened, some of the bridge workers ended up falling to their deaths.
They ended up in the river.
But the ones who were at the bridge approaches, they were able to turn the cars around and
block traffic.
It was crazy about that because my girlfriend, she got stuck behind like there was like a
four to five car pile-up that she was in standstill traffic for about two, three hours.
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So I was thinking about it like because, you know, every once in a while you'll hear about
a story in California or the San Bernardino mountains going crazy where there's a real
big pile up and then people are stuck in their car for like a week and something like that. Carmageddon.
Like I'm like, what if I got stuck on the line again?
Like how am I like you supposed to wait out the storm?
And I'm like, what if you don't know water or anything like am I just supposed to like
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what am I supposed to do in my car?
That happened in Atlanta a few several years ago, they had a really bad snowstorm.
You should always have an emergency kit in your car.
Do you have your emergency kit, guys?
Make sure you have one.
I do.
I don't.
Do you have yours?
From my Minneapolis days, I have a case of water, or half case of this by the time, a blanket
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and like a little like at least a flashlight because in Minnesota when it gets like say
your car can't start, you're stuck in the highway or snow, you got to stay warm until
you get bailed out.
So that's just something I always just keep in a like little emergency road kit.
Like let me go to the trunk and then you know, even have an emergency bottle back there just in case.
Just like.
Oh wow.
No, no, no, no.
You never thought about that until you never think you never need it until you really need
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it.
And I was like, wow, that's really good.
And then it's just never like how do I entertain myself?
Do I have to make sure you get the chargers ready?
Right?
And the car.
That's it.
But shout out to Mayor Brandon Scott too and everybody.
Mayor Scott, I'm going to lean in on you just a little bit.
I like you.
I'm just going to lean in.
It's a good lean in.
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Continue to remind those CMYK 0.0s why you're in office because the FFFFFFs be getting
out of control and they don't even live there.
They don't even live in Baltimore, but they're worried about him because of how he got elected
into office.
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Like, hey, I don't know.
But anyway, switching gears, man, people out here shooting their shot on LinkedIn.
Right?
Man… Diddy.
Oh yeah, he going to jail.
My boy going to jail, jail, jail.
You can't feed somebody mad ketamine and don't think that you're not going to jail, bro.
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She said that she'll never remember again.
She'll never remember the same way ever again.
And that's what Cassie said.
And then Yung Miami doing cocaine, it's a hell of a drug, dude.
So it's just a lot to take in.
I mean, I think it's interesting when there's rumors, but then they get solidified.
You're like, damn, who do we not believe or who was trying to tell us something?
We just said, ah, ah, ah.
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But I think it's just, I look at this as a shift in society because, you know, even the
term, you know, how we used to say the word like, gay, meaning not a Gay but different things,
but now it's like offensive.
Now the fact that people are coming out, the fact that like, I feel like my story is believable
or something.
And now you're getting that like, yo, people are going.
And I think for you to have federal indictments, like that means like they've been building
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for a while.
I have a Diddy story for you guys, but I'm not going to tell it on here because he's
still, he's still out.
So I'll share my Diddy story when I hit stop end recording.
But gangs are still running Haiti and cinnamon is being recalled for lead.
I heard about that. Yeah that’s a whole thing in itself.
So, you know, what else is crazy?
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Joey, KFC is selling chicken breasts with pepperoni pizza on top.
Oh yeah, that's silly.
That's silly.
Hey, you know what else you know, what's crazy?
Khai, Burger King is selling liquor on DoorDash.
That's cool.
I can see that being a that's kind of cool.
Yeah.
Let me get a Jack & Coke with my Whopper.
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No, no, it's not cool.
You know why it's not cool?
Because you know what my mind goes.
My mind goes back to David Hasselhoff drunk as a skunk eating that Whopper on the floor.
That's where my mind goes.
That's Baywatch right there.
That's Baywatch.
David Hasselhoff.
David Hasselhoff.
You know, people in Germany love that guy.
The Germans love him.
Yo, you know what's crazy?
So he had an R&B album back in the day, like a pop R&B type album.
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And I remember watching his concert on TV on a Saturday afternoon.
I was on punishment and I'm like, oh, who is this white man that he's jamming?
It was David Hasselhoff.
He had bops.
Like it was anyway.
Listen, this April.
Black Jenga season is about to start back up again.
So you know about Black Jenga, right?
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Do yall know what Black Jenga is?
I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm here to smile and be...
All right, yall ready?
Yall ready?
No, you're going to know exactly what it is once I tell you.
Yall ready?
Yall ready for Black Jenga?
So Black Jenga is when you're at a cookout or any other gathering with Black folks and
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they keep stacking the trash on top of the trash can.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Instead of just dumping it.
Yes I’ve seen that.
So here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
Whoever puts the trash on top and it tips over, they’ve got to dump the trash.
So that's Black Jenga.
Oh I got you.
That's funny.
I've never seen that.
No, so that's Black Jenga.
You heard it here first on The Cris David Show.
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And we're also coming out of Women's History Month.
So shout out to all the women.
We love you.
I still have my post up from last year, you know, from women's history month.
So they're on my IG.
So you know, definitely check them out if you have a chance to go on IG.
Check those out.
A lot of wonderful women.
Something you guys asked me too, like what happened with the cashier at Walmart who was
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assaulted on Black Friday.
She actually ended up not pressing charges.
So that's that.
I mean, retail is crazy.
I mean, we've all worked retail.
You know, you work retail, right?
Yeah, I was the best CVS cashier where I made people feel special...
Wait a minute.
What CVS?
Not the CVS on Washington?
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No, no, no, not that one.
The one across the street from St. Peters.
Oh, okay.
The college ghetto CVS.
That one’s not too bad.
I feel that one was more white, suburban, but the one near Delaware Avenue.
Oh, okay.
Where the family's from.
That was the one.
I was like, oh, you robbing, robbing.
Oh, you stealing, stealing? You stealing, stealing!
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Yeah, they stealing.
My retail experience is always more so like big box.
I can't do anything with food because nah, I don't want you to be like, you touched this.
You know, like I ain't doing that.
Joey, what about you?
What about you?
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You ever worked retail?
You worked retail, right?
I worked retail.
I did.
I worked at American Eagle.
Best denim specialist in the Northeast.
You know what I mean?
I worked...
Yeah, I think that was mostly my retail.
I also worked at a carpet store.
I worked at Harry Katz Carpet.
Shout out to Long Island, New York, MiNe-Yola.
Yeah, he was the one that gave me my first...
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That was my first job.
So they let a young kid just play around in the showroom, put the carpets away.
And then when they, yeah, they needed a little bit of heavy lifting, they had to do that.
But basically I was there to clean up, take naps on the furniture.
I was about to get to hang out with the old timers.
They were actually pretty chill.
They were pretty chill.
Yo, this show was magical back then.
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Wasn't I just talking about Oriental rugs and then you mentioned that you worked at
a carpet store?
I did. That’s crazy!
I did work at it.
I worked there.
We were going to talk about me working on a catering cruise ship, which was definitely
a different experience.
Okay.
What was that about?
I gotta know this.
Yeah.
So basically if you have a little function like the kids' boat day, senior boat trip,
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you'd go to the marina, you'd load the kids on.
And then I was the one that was bringing stuff.
Because the kitchen, of course, is in the hole in the under deck.
So you have to basically, you have to climb up these really steep steps with the food
or basically you hand it up, they'll bring it up and then you serve the tables.
And it's what you think of any catering hall, except that it's a floating catering hall.
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So that was cool.
I worked at this photo lab in Target and the photo lab was crazy.
I mean, all kinds of pictures used to come through the photo lab.
Oh, I bet.
So it was just one time.
This is one situation.
This is crazy.
This was wild.
It really wasn't like looking back on it like today.
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It's really not that wild.
But back then, it was like, whoa, what the hell?
So this one day I come in from, I was in class and then I came to do my shift.
And she's like, Cris, Cris, you got to see these pictures.
You got to look at these pictures.
And I'm like, okay, can I put my bookbag down first?
What the hell?
So.
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So.
Yeah, the spicy...
He reported it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, so, so Khai of knows where I'm going with this.
Kind of knows where I'm going with this.
Okay, so, you know, I started looking at the pictures.
So like this girl dropped off these one hour photos because we did one hour and we did
overnight.
So she drops off these one hours and I don't know if the guy was her man or if it
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was just some random guy or I don't know what the story was.
But it's this guy in the photos and he's this, really... Ooh, ok.
Buff, stripper looking guy.
And so the first picture I'm just like, okay, he has his shirt off, he has jeans on,
like cowboy hat.
What the hell?
And then there's this last picture.
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And dude is like just full, just full frontal, just everything is out.
And so she's like, oh my God, that motherfucker got too much dick!
Oh wow.
And I'm like yeah.
So our other coworker comes in and by this point, the girl had already came to pick up
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her pictures or whatever, the pictures were gone.
And so Miss Betty, Miss Betty is trying to describe to the girl what the guy's stuff
looked like.
So she goes, you had to see that shit!
Motherfucker had a dick this long.
And this motherfucking thick.
When they hand down the baton, they gave him the baton like here, use it how you shall.
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And pay a tribute.
Yeah, that was a tribute.
Yeah, but the photos, that was a tribute.
So before we go, Beyoncé’s country joint, the Renaissance Act Two, Cowboy Carter, came
out last Friday.
So since Act Two, this is what I want to know from you guys.
So since Act Two is heavily country influenced, what do you think her Act Three is going to
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be?
Anything she wants it to be.
So right now I was talking about that.
So this is when you hit the pinnacle.
You know when you've done everything, like the most famous, like Brad Pitt, he probably
stops acting because once you're a soup, once you hit the highest, once you're the apex
of that type, there's no, she's almost at the point where she's, like Beyonce is already
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goated, like one of the greatest or is the greatest or whatever, however you want to
describe her.
At this point, she's just doing stuff for the art of it, for the craft.
And this is not her best album.
It doesn't matter.
Like I had a hundred number one hits already.
Like another number one hit, whether it does good or not, won't matter to me because I'm
at the pinnacle of success.
Like Andre 3000, they're like, when are you going to start rapping again?
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I'm done with rap.
I want to play the flute and do other music because we already did that.
We already had like Drake and the rest of these guys.
After I have 700 Grammys, like if I want to make a quirky song with the new country singer,
then I'm going to do that.
There's nothing stopping me.
And you also don't limit these people's freedom.
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Is Beyoncé a country singer?
Now she is.
No one will say she's a country singer, but if you want to look at her as a country singer,
she has the right to, whether you agree, whether you like it or not, she made a country song
and people like Beyoncé country music.
So like I said, this is when you're super successful and super talented and you have
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nothing else to do with your time, but just to try other shit.
So go for it.
I'm all for it.
No, one thing I love about this, it's what things you read online, but just also I love
her.
This is like, this is her get back.
This is her lick.
So 2016 was she was at a CMA award with Dixie Chicks and she performed.
They got so much hate because they're like, oh, Beyoncé is not, you know, country or whatever.
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Then actually took down her performance because the comments that they were spewing, spewing
and the least thing for a Dixie trick said they hated that because for them, that was
one of the best weeks ever.
They're like, we appreciate Beyoncé's work ethic because being able to perform with her
one thing, but like see how she worked.
They're like, we gained a whole new understanding and following of this woman.
So based off of how her experience, I think she's been plotting this for a while when
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she couldn’t just say now, technically my shit registers as country.
So and if I have the biggest country album of the year, what the CMA’s, you got to do
something about it.
Right.
And even the fact that even if it's not the album, the fact that she's featuring country
artists, the Black country artists on her tracks, it falls into the category.
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So I think it's one of those genius moves like you hurt me, nine, whatever years ago
and now I'm coming back.
But I think it's also the creativity, right?
The thing is, apparently she had this before Renaissance, but she wanted to, the world
needed to read Act I before she got this one.
I think it goes to the fact of who she is as an artist, the fact that she can do so
much because her voice lends to it too.
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Because most artists, like I love K. Michelle, she has a great voice, but we can't play K. Michelle
happy songs.
It wouldn’t work.
But it does a testament, I think it's also, you put out two back to back albums, you go
on tour, she's going to need a break at some point.
I think instead of that break, but Act Three, if there is one.
I say she probably goes more, you know, Caribbean, Afro-Beats, if you remember, even though the
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Lion King live action movie wasn't the best, that album, We Are King or what is attached
to it.
Black Is King.
Love it.
People loved it.
So it's this creative genius, her team's great, she knows what she's doing, she knows
How to keep the people captivated.
It's just a range of emotions where, and even if you aren't the biggest Beyoncé fans, the
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songs from what I've been listening, because I've had people as soon as Midnight
come down like, yo, you gotta fucking listen to this.
I'm like, yo, she's doing her thing.
So I appreciate this.
And it's interesting, cause Jay Z knew she was sitting on this and he presented album
of the year.
The Grammy, that was like, isn't that crazy?
He knew, he knew, but I think it's just, I'm happy that this moment's happening for her,
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for us, because it goes to show that the versatility of Black people, we are not monolithic, we're
not in the box.
The fact that we can do things and make it great.
It's almost the fact that people keep gatekeeping shit from us because they know we come in
and we're going to do it.
I'm happy in my lifetime where I actually got to see Beyoncé’s transformation.
Cause there's a lot of greats that you see later on, like Michael, I know I appreciate,
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I didn't get to appreciate his early stuff.
You know, even Off The Wall, it wasn't until, you know, he was-
Well Khai, you weren't here yet.
Like what do you mean?
He was in the seventies.
He was going crazy in the seventies.
So he grew up with, like my mother and them, he grew up with their generations.
I'm getting, we are not alone.
I'm like seven trying to say like, what's going on here?
Who's Lisa Marie Presley?
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Yeah.
So wait a minute.
You mentioned Lisa Marie.
Fun fact about Lisa Marie Presley.
If you have the Janet Jackson album called The Velvet Rope, there's an interlude on the
Velvet Rope. No way! And she's talking to another woman and the woman says to her, your coochie's
going to swell up and fall apart.
That's Lisa Marie Presley who says that.
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Your coochie's gonna swell up.
So here's the deal.
So for Black Music Month last year, Black Music Month for all of you who don't know
is in June, every June, I did an interview with one of the founders of Black Music Month,
Ms. Dyana Williams.
And it's fun talking with her because she's highly intuitive and she always knows the
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direction music is going to take.
I love country, Black country artist, Brittany Spencer is one of my clients and she is a hip hop artist.
I'm sorry, a country artist from Baltimore who lives in Nashville, Rissy Palmer, Mickey
Guyton and a woman named Frankie Staton who was the pioneer, grown woman, close to my
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age, Frankie Staton.
Yeah, there's a great documentary if you love country music and it focuses on Black country
artists.
It's called For Love and Country, I believe it is.
There's a wonderful woman named Treena Ferebee who a lot of people should know.
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She is the incarnation of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
She plays the guitar, she performs.
Treena Ferebee, love her.
Khai you mentioned K. Michelle earlier and the thing with K. Michelle is she's been doing
country indirectly for like her entire career.
And she had an album out about 10 years ago and it was called Anybody Want to Buy a Heart
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and that album cover is anyway.
Shout out to K. Michelle and the street single, because you know, I'm everywhere,
the street single was a record called Going Under and it's like a mid-tempo record,
it's kind of trappy but the lyrics are sad without resolve, which has all the makings
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of a country record.
If you listen to country music, country music is very sad.
But you know, I like how she plays with different genres, like none of her music is symmetric
and she samples The Message on the hook.
But I hope though with Beyoncé going down this country road, it'll open up listeners
to some of the other Black artists who are out here doing country and they have been
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for some time.
Like Linda Martell, who is actually, she has a record with Linda on the new album.
She's one of the first, she was the first successful Black female country artist.
But I think Beyonce's Act III, if I had to do a prediction, I think it'll be hip
hop.
Like some people have been saying rock and she's going to go in a rock direction.
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Some people have been saying, you know, she's going to go back to strictly R&B.
But I mean, I just think that she's going to be, she's going to do rap.
She's going to be, you know, trap Bey.
I really do.
I think she's going to do a rap thing.
And speaking of rap, we do, we had a game, but we're going to play it next time because
running out of time.
What did you guys think of the Super Bowl?
We haven't been on in a long time.
So I mean, I got to ask you.
I mean, that's Ursher.
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Like that man went off and the fact of like, what I don't like about a lot of
new music is I don't see the longevity happening.
I see a lot of things are, you know, produced crazily good production, but I don't see it
being here in five, six, seven years.
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The fact that Usher had been doing this since 16, but like he was able to do his, he did
his hits, he even do all his hits.
Everyone was more things like he did Superstar, I was surprised, but it's one of those things
that was such a great show to understand.
Like that's a true act.
Like part of me wish I would have went to the residency to see artistry, for what it is
because they don't turn them out the way the used to, right?
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Someone that could dance, sing, hit the notes, giving you actually a show versus a performance.
And that's why I really got out of that.
Like I tuned in and I'm like, yo, this man got it still never lost it.
Even still making new music that still works for today's sound.
But the fact that he's still keeping his individuality.
I wasn’t even pressed like that's what I wanted for the, that's what I wanted for the Super
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Bowl.
The game was whatever, you know, ain't no Cowboys in it.
So we good.
But
Joey, what about you?
No.
Yeah.
Like I said, I said, I said, Usher is a legend.
And the way he, the way he grabbed Alicia, butt like she gave him the look, like if I
was Swizz Beatz, I'd be like, yo, stop putting your hands on my girl.
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But me and you are cool.
We're cool dog, but.
Watch your hands.
You're getting a little handsy with my girl.
But other than that, like I said, he is the, he definitely gave the resident.
Yeah.
He definitely gave the Vegas show for the people.
Like he gave everybody the Vegas show because that's what he's giving them in Vegas.
And yeah, that is, that's a performance.
And that's why, that's why he'll stand above, like going to like one of the, one of these
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other rap shows because they're not giving you a show.
They're just giving you them rapping on top of their already pre-recorded tracks.
And you just see them just jumping around and things like that.
And like, yeah, like, no, I, they, the reason why Beyoncé is getting sold out shows and
multi-city deals is because when she gives a show, you're not only going to get the production,
you're going to get the lights, you're going to get the costume changes, you're going to
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get this and that, you're going to get the bells and the whistles.
You're going to get an experience.
Yeah.
And that's it. That’s what people want.
That's the way, like I'm not the biggest Beyonce fan, but everybody that went to that concert
in Philly were like, oh, that was a show.
That was like, oh my God.
Like, oh my God.
Okay.
So that means there has to be something there. The two of them, I refer to her as female
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Usher and I refer to him as male Beyoncé because the two of them give, they’re performers, they
give a show.
And I think they are the last of those types of performance that really give a show.
I saw Beyoncé years ago, probably 20 years ago at the Garden.
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Khai mentioned Superstar, that record Superstar.
And it was, it was so surreal watching Usher and then just seeing all of the Black people
in the audience singing along to that, because that's one of those records that
just resonates with Black folks.
I feel like that's one of our software updates.
You know, when you hear superstar, you all know the words to that.
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I mean, honestly, I wasn't feeling the game itself.
So I mean, I had to see my guy, I had to see him do his big one and shout out to
the NUPES.
You know, who performed in the show because they were there, they were performing, dancing
with him.
But who do you think is going to perform next year?
Good question.
It could be anybody.
That's like, whatever is going to make them the most money, basically, because it could
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be anybody hot.
It can be somebody who's trusted and true.
That right there can be anything.
They could, if Glorilla and Sexyy Red, if they get enough American appeal, they'll put
them in the next Halftime show.
You know what I mean?
It's just who's popular and who can you put on there that's going to make 10 million,
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500 million, whatever that number is.
How are you going to make that many people tune into your Halftime show?
You know what's going to be interesting?
Honestly, I think about how this election will go.
Are we going to talk politics now?
We already did.
I already covered that.
That's done.
I'm done with politics for the day.
The NFL has always been tuned to the likes and things of white America.
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So if it goes one way, I think they're going to go back to like... I would like to see
Jelly Roll.
I want to see Jelly Roll do it.
It might be a country again some artists, but I think it's actually shifting back to-
Ed Sheeran is definitely a front runner for sure.
Ed Sheeran or somebody like something like that.
But you know, I don't think the rural whites like Ed Sheeran like that.
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That's what I was saying.
I think his popularity has waned.
His time probably to do that was probably six, seven years ago.
It's definitely going to be a 90s rock band, unless you get Justin Timberlake coming back
to do it with NSYNC or something.
Yeah, but they do that also just for fun.
Let's give Justin another show.
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Let's have it one more time.
More money for Justin Timberlake, yay.
Yeah, let's do it.
But honestly, I think they're shifting...
This is fun.
It's been cool, but they got to shift back to their major fan base in some way, shape
or form.
But you know, that fan base is dying off too.
That's actually true.
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Joey, you mentioned something earlier when you were talking about that Villanova-Creighton
game.
And you were talking about those two basketball players looking biracial.
Yeah, one was a white kid, the other kid was...
Oh, one was white and one was biracial.
But if you look at the NBA, if you look at the NBA, you look at some like not a lot of
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the NFL, but you look at a large portion of it, it's biracial.
That's where things are kind of going.
But that's another thing.
I'm writing this stuff down because this is all stuff I want to revisit on future shows
but... so here's who I think
Lizzo, mark my words.
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I see it.
Lizzo, that's because she's like, I'm going to quit and all this other stuff.
Right.
But then she's also losing weight.
She's doing different...
I've heard rumors.
She's doing different things with her sound.
So she may come back out, you know, toward the middle or the end of the year because
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we're still kind of in the beginning of the year, but she may come back out and everybody
loves her again.
And then she's on stage in February.
I don't know.
Lizzo, we know not everybody loves her enough to put her on a main stage like that.
Now listen, the wives of the people who like the NFL, they love Lizzo.
Lizzo is very big in the suburbs.
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I don't know why...
She's very big in the suburbs.
Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift.
Didn't she already have one?
No, I don't think...
I've never seen a Taylor Swift.
I don't know.
But while we're talking about music though, what happened to Verzuz?
Like that's literally like the only thing from the pandemic that I've missed.
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We're outside of quarantine.
That was the quarantine special.
That's the only thing I missed from the pandemic.
It's like a Tory Lanez...
Yeah, that's like actually what happened to Tory Lanez.
Oh, we know what happened to Tory Lanez.
His own fault.
That was his own fault.
Yeah, we know what happened to Tory.
But Khai, what the...
Yo, what's your take on Verzuz when...
You watched Verzuz, right?
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You watched Verzuz.
I did.
And it was what the culture needed because it's all those back of the school table, all
those different conversations.
We were exactly like, who was better than this?
You know, who's that?
And I think I really understood that.
You understand what people had catalogs and what people had time to sound.
Sometimes what I wanted to say, like I look at the one between who had a deeper appreciation
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for it, but I think I didn't really get it because it was up north, Ludacris.
Going hypocritical against Nelly because I was like, oh, Nelly was cool and all that.
But I'm like, yes, Nelly has Sweat Suit and country hop and all that before.
But like going through Ludacris' collection, he has something for everything.
And I really appreciate that.
I got to rediscover.
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Artists all over again for the first time.
I actually go back and say, like, oh, I knew what songs were released, but I never owned
a Ludacris CD.
I just whatever was on the radio or MTV Jams.
But it allowed me to go back and understand artists a little bit differently.
And I love seeing the actual, like, I love seeing our community embrace and have fun.
Again, the best show ever, though, was The Lox vs. Dipset.
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You can't tell me Jada ain’t top five now after that. That was scary.
Yeah, but also, like, I think it brings a good competition.
I was scared.
It brings a good competition, but also it brings that, like, also, like some artists
are like, like with the what was it?
The Keyshia Cole, Ashanti.
So that one guy that one went astray because like, Keyshia thinks that I'm...
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You know what I mean?
It's like my status.
It's a status thing.
Like, well, I'm just as important as like, first of all, Ashanti has way more music than
you, Keyshia.
So you can't be like, I'm a bigger celebrity or star.
You know what I mean? Now you starting to…
Drake doesn't want to do a Chris Brown versus because my thing, you know what I mean?
Chris Brown is like my catalog.
I've been doing this for 20 years.
You're going to have to bring somebody that has 20 year’s worth of material to even come
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and talk to me because you put in me, you putting the Temptations and the whatchamacallits
on that same platform makes sense.
Like Earth, Wind and Fire and whatchamacallit together.
That makes sense.
You putting Nelly versus Ludacris.
That can most likely make sense.
You know what I mean?
Now, if you have somebody that's too famous, then it's not going to start making sense
anymore because like you can't who you're going to put against Chris Brown because
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Brown has too many albums, too many songs and every song.
Now the newer ones, he's giving you 40 songs per album.
He's got his Afro-beats coming out.
Yeah.
You know, for me, though, I think the Mario Omarion was the last one I saw.
And I mean, I ride for Mario.
Shout out to him, but listen, that was Bobby V.'s night.
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He had the crowd just in a trance.
That was his night.
All the way.
But wait, what the hell was going on with Ray J. and Sammie?
it was giving coke rage or something.
They only had one song.
So I don't even know how that was even a thing.
How would they even think that would be a thing?
You know what I mean?
And why didn't he do Wait A Minute?
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Wait A Minute.
is probably the most recognizable, I guess Ray J. record probably for people our age.
Ray J. That's the only Ray J. record.
He also had Sexy Can I
That was like his crossover record.
But, Wait A Minute.
I was a teen, a little teenager when that came out and
Yeah, I remember that too.
You couldn’t tell me that, you know, I wasn't doing something with that record.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Right.
Exactly. Workin’ all day. In the clubs.
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It’s on tonight.
Yeah.
I mean, Ray J is so polarizing.
Ray J is my guy.
I like Ray J. But he just makes it hard sometimes for me to root for him.
But this is the other thing.
This is my other thing.
Where was Lloyd?
I mean, if you're going to bring all the guys out, where was Lloyd at?
I go hard for Lloyd.
You know, Lloyd.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
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Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Get, get, get, get it shawty.
Yeah, Young Money.
I don't know.
I think he's still Young Money.
So I don't know.
That might be a whole different production thing, type of thing.
So he was on the, they did the updated Scream Tour with the adults.
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He was on that for the Verzuz.
It's almost like, cause he's early, because he was like, other, you know?
He's in that realm.
But for some reason, he doesn't get the respect he needs, you know?
He doesn't.
He doesn't at all.
Like Lloyd, let me tell you, let me say something real quick.
Let me say something real quick.
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Music producers, make Lloyd your muse.
And specifically, Kaytranada, I'm talking to you.
And I see you on that phone.
And you ain't talking to nobody.
You better wear your eclipse glasses too.
Anyway, Sak Passe, Kay.
No, no, but not for nothing.
Chris should have been on Verzuz.
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I think him and Ne-Yo would have probably been the craziest option.
Him and Ne-Yo would have probably, that would have been crazy.
Ne-Yo, I don't know, but cause do you only do it from their past work?
Cause like I said, Chris Brown is still making, he made 11:11.
I’m going to the Chris Brown concert tomorrow.
He's still doing stuff.
You know what I mean?
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Like I haven't heard Ne-Yo.
Ne-Yo had problems with his girl and I watched that in the news.
That's all I know about Ne-Yo.
You know what I mean?
Like, is there, he's not the same Ne-Yo that used to sing to me.
You know what I mean?
That I wanted to turn my, to go bald and put on a fedora hat.
You know what I mean?
Like that's not.
Joe, you wanted to go bald?
And put a fedora on?
You try to say, yeah, sexy can I, you know what I mean?
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That's funny.
You know what?
Listen, I know I'm late.
I know I'm late.
I don't care if fight me, but you know what?
Shout out to Swizzy and Tim and bring Verzuz back.
I'm like, no, it's crazy.
Cause I'm like, I've been in this place where I live right now since like summer,
2022.
And I was thinking like, what have I missed watching since I lived here?
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And it was Verzuz.
And I mean, I don't really watch TV.
Like TV to me, TV is very sad.
Like that's why like, I like that you guys recommend shows and stuff.
Cause like actual terrestrial TV is just, I mean, outside of Abbott
Elementary and like The Neighborhood, I'm watching Dabl.
I'm watching reruns of Family Matters and Black-ish.
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Oh yeah.
That's all day.
Yeah.
You might as well watch nonstop Ridiculousness.
I'm satisfied with those four shows.
Like I'm satisfied with those four shows.
Like I'm satisfied.
Have you, have you watched Dabl?
Do you know about Dabl?
This is new.
So, so, okay.
So I'm going to explain Dabl to yall.
So Dabl is this channel.
It's not cable.
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It's actually on cable.
And I don't know what the number is.
If you have Comcast or Optimum, but I have FiOS.
And on files, it's 482.
And they show the same shows all day.
The Parkers.
The Game.
Sister Sister, One On One, Half and Half, Girlfriends.
it's just a constant rotation of 90s and early 2000s UPN and CW shows
(38:32):
a lot of those shows I've missed too, because when they first ran, I was out at the club.
So I didn't get to see those shows.
You know, at night.
there's this other channel I found is called.
Catchy Comedy.
And they show Alf.
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Do you guys remember Alf with the alien?
Yeah.
That’s a throwback.
We had a puppet of Alf.
Yeah.
Of the Alf character.
I had the puppet.
And I had his poster.
Speaking of good and wholesome.
IG went out again.
Apparently.
(39:14):
See.
I keep telling you about those solar flares.
Keep telling yall.
Yeah.
I haven't been on IG in two months.
That's another thing.
Things to do to help your mental health.
Right.
If you're sad.
Unplug.
Yes.
You know, if you’re sad.
Stay off of IG.
If you're sad, don't drink as much.
Because you know what you do when you know what you do when you're sad, you drink.
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But you know what drinking does?
It makes you more sad.
So do you want to be sad and drunk?
That's never a bad...
That's never a good combo.
Khai are you on IG right now?
Khai I'm going to get my belt.
So listen, I only listen.
I only use IG for the show.
I mean, I'm getting better.
You know what I mean?
Because I post an annual thirst trap.
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You know, for @crisdavidtv at least once a summer.
But I mean, social media just as a whole is just not my thing.
I'm not invested.
Clock app, Bird app is not for me.
even MySpace and Black Planet back in the day.
Oh, Migente.
Migente, Asian Avenue.
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But it was just never my thing.
I mean, TV and radio was social media for me.
that's how we found out what was going on.
Like Video Music Box.
Like on Friday nights when you hear, 5 Minutes Of Funk
you're about to get your videos, your interviews, you know, whatever.
Whatever happened that week.
Like shout out to Uncle Ralph too.
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And I mean, Joey, you know what?
So Joey, you grew up listening to Hot97 in the morning.
You used to listen to it in the morning.
Yeah, Funkmaster Flex.
Do you remember?
Okay.
So listen, do you remember the time that Remy Ma was on Miss Jones?
Do you remember that?
Miss Jones in The Morning?
Yes.
Yeah, I remember Miss Jones in The Morning.
Yes.
So Khai, Khai, you don’t know this story, but I'm going to tell you this story.
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I'm going to tell you this.
So this always stayed with me.
So, so, so she's like, what are you mixed with?
How come you be sounding mad Spanish?
And Remy goes, I'm Black.
And Jonesy’s like, I know, but what else?
And Remy's like, and more Black.
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It was good.
It was just so good.
Like Hot97 was social media.
And the crazy thing is Khai, we and Joey had a similar moment because I was like,
Joey, you Puerto Rican, ain't you?
And Joey's like, no, I'm Dominican and Cuban.
And I was like, yeah, I knew you were Afro-Latin
I just couldn't, I couldn't figure out, you know, which one or whatever.
Yeah. The k lo k! Que lo que?!
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figure out which one.
But like, you know, so it's funny speaking to Hot97, there's this comedian,
his name is Jimmy Martinez.
And he reminds me of Joey.
But anyway, Jimmy used to be on the morning show at Hot like way back in like ’02. ‘03.
So he's on YouTube.
And he's telling a story about how him and Jaheim got into like this melee up at the station.
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They were like throwing computer monitors at each other, like old school computer monitors,
like what yall used to do today.
But like, then he has this other video where he's talking about LL.
And like, yeah, it's just crazy, man.
Shout out to Miss Jones.
Shout out to Wendy.
Guys, like if you have a chance, like check out Wendy's documentary.
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It was Lifetime.
It was really, really sad.
Oh, Wendy Williams. Nice.
Yeah.
I'll tell you guys about that later because I got to wrap the show.
But anyway, just before we go, listen, listen, Wendy will always be one of my deepest earliest radio inspirations.
Like I grew up listening to Wendy.
She's one of my deepest references.
Her and Flex. Love, Flex every night.
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Funkmaster Flex night?
Funkmaster Flex night!
Exactly.
I love Funk, but he'd be dropping too many bombs.
Like let this, because you'll wait until you’re at the part where you’re vibing.
And then he’ll bring it back.
And be like no, America's you’re not ready for this right now. Start it now dude just play the song.
I love the bombs. Where do you think I got the bombs from?
I stole them from Flex.
I broke into Flex's studio and stole them from Flex.
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But the thing is, this is the thing.
It just vexes me that we have people out here today who are like emulating Wendy based on what they think she was.
And so I just want to say to everybody, like do me a favor.
If you didn't grow up in New York City tri-state, or Philly, or Charleston, where Fiona's from, who wrote the letter earlier,
or Shreveport or Toledo or Columbia, South Carolina, I'm going to need you to leave it alone.
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And that's it. Leave it alone.
Anyway, Joey, Khai, any takeaways?
I appreciate these type of conversations, the positivity, the might of thought, the disagreement.
It's just sometimes we get so wrapped up in an all of the world we create, we fail to look outside.
And this is the moment of looking outside.
Where I can then look outside and do the internal reflection on what's needed.
But I just appreciate this time like no other.
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Like this is something that's really, really like I appreciate you for doing this.
I appreciate you, Joey.
I appreciate this as something for a safe space for Black men to be in this actually get to know each other outside the context of what the world expects us to do.
My take away is that, like I said, I love the platform.
I love being on here. I love just difference of opinion.
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It seems that we have more like everything.
We have 90 percent of commonality things, just like all people.
The person next to you, you're probably 90 percent like and then that 10 percent what makes you different is what makes you unique.
So hearing from your experience and then counteracting it with my experience and everybody else's have different outlooks on life, different places, different spaces.
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It's so it's so interesting to see how we're alike, but then also how different parts of our lives continue to just shape the direction that we continue to want to go in and then things that we would like to see.
Let's have more inclusion and let's continue to like lift and empower each other.
You know what I mean?
You know, the bulk of our answering time, you know, answering Ask the Guys know this is stood out for me was questions dealing with some type of body image.
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it was Keesha and her nose, Jae with his weight.
And, you know, both of them are young.
So it's, you know, younger than we are.
And I can't help but blame social media, you know, for their judgment. it's really, really dangerous.
And I mean, really quickly, I saw this guy, this fitness guy.
He's popular on Instagram and he's going up the stairs at Union Square with a 300 pound barbell on his shoulders.
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Like during rush hour, you know, just I don't know.
This is why I say don't base your goals off of what you see online.
And when we talk about algorithms, I know that the people who get pushed to the top are deceptively attractive.
But me and Joey and Khai are how real men look out here in the real world.
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So just remember that.
Yeah, we don't got perfect noses.
We don't have perfect noses.
We have regular.
We got regular.
You know what I mean?
We got regular bodies.
We only look at a small amount of porn, not too much porn where it's a problem.
All right.
Oh, yeah. Not you guys.
All right.
But my brothers thank you for being here. Thank you for having me.
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Everybody clap it up for Joey Black, a/k/a Joey tha Heckler and our official Cris David Show mixologist, Mr. Joey Baston.
All right.
And your favorite person's favorite person.
Champagne Kola Papi, the Chunky Jaden Smith, Black Khaina, Supreme Khai, LL Cool K, Mr. Khai Thomas.
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I'm your host, Cris David.
I'm a journalist and a cultural commentator.
I'm Blacker in a seafood feast bus trip.
All of my monikers are below.
All right.
We are and this is The Cris David Show Guy Talk Men's Discussion Panel.
If you or someone you know has a question for us, email us info@thecrisdavidshow.com.
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Put “Ask the Guys” in the subject line.
Real quick.
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Yep I'm putting you and your clothing line on blast.
Her IG is @coveredbynb.
All one word.
She's still accepting Eid orders and she does all colors and sizes.
So visit her page, check her out and get Covered by NB.
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The PHL seamstress.
But hurry up before the price goes up and be respectful in her DMS because she's 17.
I will Swiss cheese you.
Okay.
Real talk.
I will Swiss cheese you.
No weirdos.
No weirdos.
Like seriously.
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