Toure Show
Touré talks to successful people to find out how they became successful and to see what they know that can help you on your journey. Check out NEW episodes every Wednesday and Throwback episodes on Sundays.
Episodes
May 15, 2024 • 108 mins
The Kendrick-Drake battle was so much that I had to do a whole episode about it. I called some MCs and people who love to deconstruct lyrics and we went deep through all the major songs of the battle. This is the dissection that you need.
Toure Show Episode 430
Host & Writer: Touré
Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs
Producer: Quinton Hill
Associate Producer: Adell Coleman
Booker: Rae Holliday
Engineer: Claire ...
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May 8, 2024 • 74 mins
Melyssa Ford is an icon. She’s been a star for over 20 years and we’ve been friends for that long. She’s smart, she’s fun, she’s got some things she’s vulnerable about. We talk about never getting married, surviving a brain injury, being perimenopausal, being a sex symbol and why The Joe Budden show works so damn well.
Toure Show Episode 429
Host & Writer: Touré
Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs
Associate Pr...
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May 5, 2024 • 85 mins
Tremaine Emory is a designer and creative director who was at Supreme until late last year. He resigned alleging rampant racism at Supreme. We talk about what happened, why he left, and why he believed in putting images of lynchings on t-shirts. This is his first time talking publicly about what happened at Supreme. Important conversation.
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May 1, 2024 • 60 mins
Amari Marshall aka Amari Monster was a Dance Captain on Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour. She danced beside the Queen night after night. She’s the person Beyonce chose to help Blue Ivy be ready for her part of the show. Amazing conversation about dance, working with Beyonce, working with Blue Ivy, working with Rihanna on the Super Bowl halftime show and more.
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April 28, 2024 • 58 mins
Taraji P. Henson is one of the great actors of our time and in this throwback conversation she gives us a master class in acting. She explains how she relates to her characters, how she approaches scenes, and how she uses her instrument. Taraji is amazing.
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April 24, 2024 • 86 mins
Tobias Dorzon played running back in the NFL briefly and then went to culinary school and became a serious chef. He is the owner and creator of Huncho House in Hyattsville, Maryland, and he’s brilliant. Amazing convo about playing in the NFL and being a chef and running a restaurant.
Toure Show Episode 427
Host & Writer: Touré
Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs
Associate Producer: Adell Coleman
Booker: Rae H...
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April 21, 2024 • 85 mins
Joe Budden is an MC who retired and became an even bigger force in the culture than he was. In this throwback episode, we talk about everything from music to how he made it big as a podcaster.
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April 17, 2024 • 66 mins
Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson is the he author of Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America and a leading scholar on Black food studies. Fascinating conversation about Black people, food, and power.
Toure Show Episode 426
Host & Writer: Touré
Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs
Associate Producer: Adell Coleman
Booker: Rae Holliday
Engineer: Claire McHale
Photographers: Podstream Studios
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April 14, 2024 • 46 mins
Kendrick Lamar is the greatest MC of his era. Is it even a question? But how did he get to be that? In this throwback interview, I talked to Kendrick to find out how he became Kendrick. We talk about how he got to be so good. What are his favorite words? We also talk about his best verses and his best song. And what was the impact of seeing dead bodies on the street when he was a kid. Awesome conversation with a genius.
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April 10, 2024 • 77 mins
BA Parker is the co-host of the great podcast Code Switch and she was a film professor at Morgan State U so we talk a lot about lots of films from a Black POV and get into the weeds about film culture. I love this convo.
Toure Show Episode 425
Host & Writer: Touré
Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs
Associate Producer: Adell Coleman
Booker: Rae Holliday
Engineer: Claire McHale
Photographers: Podstream Studios
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April 7, 2024 • 78 mins
Matthew Knowles is Beyonce’s father and he served as her manager for many years and according to him he is central to her success. If you want to know about the strategy behind leading Beyonce to the top, listen to Mr. Knowles.
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April 3, 2024 • 103 mins
King Green is a great MC and a serious student of the craft. I found him on Tiktok and we had an amazing conversation about hiphop and the science of MCing.
Toure Show Episode 424
Host & Writer: Touré
Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs
Associate Producer: Adell Coleman
Booker: Rae Holliday
Engineer: Claire McHale
Photographers: Podstream Studios
The House: DCP Entertainment
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March 31, 2024 • 66 mins
You don’t need to work 50 hours a week to get rich. You need to make your money work for you. And you need to know that you can infiltrate the power structure and make their rules for you. Arlan Hamilton is an amazing Black female Venture Capitalist who was homeless not long ago and now has a crowdfunded VC fund that anyone can join (theoretically—right now it’s closed, slots sold out in a day! But I’m hoping it opens back up soon!...
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March 27, 2024 • 108 mins
Tiffany Cross is a broadcaster and podcaster and a political warrior. She’s brilliant and she’s a fierce defender of Black people. She’s now hosting the Native Land podcast with Angela Rye and Andrew Gillum and she’s also hosting a podcast called ACross Generations. We talk a lot about her rise and fall at MSNBC as well as how she grew into the tough-minded political analyst she is.
Toure Show Episode 423
Host & Writer: Touré
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March 25, 2024 • 54 mins
Isabel Wilkerson is one of the great writers of her generation. Her book Caste has been shaped into a movie by Ava Duvernay called Origin which has been met with rave reviews. She is the author of Caste and The Warmth Of Other Suns in which she is creating narrative non-fiction that is explaining Black America with a depth and precision rarely seen. I love her research, I love her way of explaining things, and I love her writing st...
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March 20, 2024 • 70 mins
I went to SXSW to intv three Black activists—Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party, Chris Smalls of Amazon Labor Union, and Phillip Agnew of Black Men Build. Great conversation about the future of America and the sacrifices that activists make and how to keep your ego out of leadership.
Toure Show Episode 422
Host & Writer: Touré
Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs
Associate Producer: Adell Coleman
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March 17, 2024 • 38 mins
A Different World is on tour so let's throwback to my interview with Kadeem Hardison. In this interview we talk about him starring on Netflix's hysterical Teenage Bounty Hunters and we talk about A Different World, and how he's made it as an actor.
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March 13, 2024 • 68 mins
Amber Riley is a singer-actress dynamo who starred in Glee and is now in Single Black Female 2. We talk about being on Glee, being a singer and how her Lizzo helped her become the proud woman she is.
Toure Show Episode 421
Host & Writer: Touré
Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Jennifer Brown
Associate Producer: Adell Coleman
Booker: Rae Holliday
Engineer: Claire McHale
Photographers: Podstream Studios
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March 10, 2024 • 48 mins
Jeffrey Wright is an amazing actor who stars in one of the best films of the year, American Fiction. In this throwback intv we talk about his philosophies around acting as well as how he tried to make a difference during quarantine times and about around acting. I’ve known Wright a long time and he’s a really deep and fascinating guy onscreen and off.
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March 6, 2024 • 103 mins
Erick Sermon is half of the legendary hiphop duo EPMD and also an incredible producer who’s worked with Kanye, Dr. Dre and more. We talk about making music with both Kanye and Dre, the rise of EPMD, the breakup of EPMD, and stories from a life in hiphop. Amazing convo with an icon.
Touré Show Episode 420
Host & Writer: Touré
Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall & Jennifer Brown
Associate Producer: Adell Coleman
Booker: Rae Hollida...
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