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It's Black Music Month, and we're celebrating the only way we know how: gay, loud, and ready to fight about Brandy. Harry and Bia welcome Rian-Louis of the RIANOUTLOUD! Podcast to talk all things Black music, from artists and queer icons to the deep cuts in heavy rotation right now. Is Never Say Never the blueprint, or does B7 deserve its flowers? Did Kehlani need that many features on her album? Do the Brits actually eat when they do R&B? This episode is an unapologetic celebration of Black music and Black queerness. Come for the discography debates, stay for the commentary.
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Hey.
Speaker A:Hey, y'.
Speaker B:All.
Speaker A:Hi, I'm bia.
Speaker C:Hi, I'm harry.
Speaker B:And I'm ryan lewis.
Speaker B:And we are chosen.
Speaker B:Ken.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Our first guest.
Speaker A:Hello.
Speaker A:How are you doing, Ryan?
Speaker A:How's it going?
Speaker B:What am I doing?
Speaker B:I'm busy.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:And if it's not one event, I'm traveling.
Speaker B:If I'm not traveling, I'm like, work and, you know.
Speaker B:But it's all the things I've been wanting to do in my life, and I will not complain, so I'm blessed.
Speaker A:Amen to that.
Speaker A:I see how you shout out to that.
Speaker A:I won't complain.
Speaker B:It's one of my favorite.
Speaker B:My pastor back home, he sings it.
Speaker B:That's one of my favorite songs when I go do go to church.
Speaker B:My favorite occasionally, you know, little popping.
Speaker A:Little popping, Little New Year's.
Speaker B:That's your guest, you know.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Hey, Harry.
Speaker A:How are you?
Speaker C:I am good.
Speaker C:Like Ryan, I'm also very busy.
Speaker C:I'm doing a million and one things.
Speaker C:But we're here, we're queer, and we are here.
Speaker C:We're here.
Speaker C:We're getting through this month.
Speaker C:This month feels very homophobic, though, for Pride Month.
Speaker C:But that's another story entirely.
Speaker C:But, yeah, we're getting through it.
Speaker A:You know, I thought you were gonna say, we're here, we're queer, we're thriving.
Speaker A:But you were like, we're getting through it.
Speaker A:And that feels similar to how.
Speaker B:That feels real.
Speaker A:I'm crawling.
Speaker A:I'm like, it's for Pride Month.
Speaker A:It's not giving pride.
Speaker A:But I just.
Speaker A:As someone.
Speaker A:I live in Atlanta, Ryan.
Speaker A:Where you live?
Speaker B:Pittsburgh.
Speaker B:I love Atlanta.
Speaker A:Why you pause like that?
Speaker A:You said, you know what?
Speaker B:Please, I'm Pennsylvania from now, I'm playing Pittsburgh Penns.
Speaker A:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Speaker A:I literally am just gonna accept that this summer is pride.
Speaker A:Summer pride.
Speaker A:You know how they do pride in the South?
Speaker A:It'd be like October pride.
Speaker A:MLK Pride.
Speaker B:Please, I want to come in September.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker B:We're gonna be there.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Are you?
Speaker B:I'm gonna.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:Now I gotta plan it, because I was thinking about seeing Kehlani that Thursday.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:Do it.
Speaker B:And then staying the whole weekend.
Speaker A:So you have to.
Speaker A:You have to.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's a ball.
Speaker A:I wish I could see Kehlani, but I cannot brave that heat.
Speaker A:So I'll be there outside.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah, it is outside.
Speaker B:You know, I just saw her at the Ruth picnic, so maybe I got my feel for it.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:We'll see.
Speaker A:We'll see.
Speaker A:Grand.
Speaker C:We might have an.
Speaker C:We Might have an announcement for that weekend.
Speaker C:We might.
Speaker C:Who knows?
Speaker C:You gotta stay tuned.
Speaker B:Stay tuned.
Speaker A:I love a little cheeky crumb to leave.
Speaker A:I love that.
Speaker B:Stay tuned.
Speaker A:Well, it's so, so good to see you both.
Speaker A:Despite it all, Ryan, you know, we're privy to who you are, but can you give a little taste of who you are to, like our chosen kin fam?
Speaker B:Hello, chosen kin fam.
Speaker B:My name is Ryan Lewis.
Speaker B:I am a lot of things.
Speaker B:I am, okay, a podcaster, mc.
Speaker B:I am a writer.
Speaker B:I am a creative director.
Speaker B:Y' all are the things.
Speaker B:But I'm the host of the Ryan Out Loud podcast, which is a. I created as a safe space for black LGBTQ creatives to, you know, come on to the platform.
Speaker B:Creating a platform for them to showcase their work because I felt like they were being going looked over at the time, you know.
Speaker B:Now in the last six years, you know, there's Destin, Conrad, Duran, Bernard.
Speaker B:People are black.
Speaker B:Queer artists are flourishing, you know, so that's why I wanted.
Speaker B:That's why I do Ryan Outline.
Speaker B:I'm also the host of a new podcast called the But Mind you Podcast.
Speaker B:It's a group chat, but in a podcast form with my best friend.
Speaker B:Friend.
Speaker B:My brother from another, Donnie Love.
Speaker B:He's the unfiltered cancer and I'm the reserve Scorpio.
Speaker B:All the things, you know, there's a lot of things coming.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's me.
Speaker B:That's me.
Speaker C:Shout out.
Speaker C:That's a raven.
Speaker B:That was almost my podcast.
Speaker B:Spoiler alert.
Speaker B:That was almost.
Speaker B:It was almost that.
Speaker B:So Ryan and I, sometimes I'll be like, I think I might.
Speaker C:Yeah, that could be another podcast you do one day.
Speaker A:Yeah, I love that.
Speaker A:You know, good things coming.
Speaker A:Threes too.
Speaker A:So that'll be really cute.
Speaker A:But let's kick it off because we know Ryan, like you, we already kind of dabbled in music already, but we want to take it up a notch.
Speaker A:It is Black Music Month.
Speaker B:Yes, it is.
Speaker A:You know, so first want to get into all things music, black music specifically.
Speaker A:And we, we're going to get into some little controversial topics.
Speaker A:But of course, you're the perfect person to jam out and talk about this with.
Speaker B:Well, I'm excited.
Speaker B:Let me go.
Speaker B:Ok.
Speaker A:I'm excited.
Speaker A:I'm ready to hear your thoughts because Harry be having some good thoughts too.
Speaker A:But me and Harry, we bump heads a little bit, just a little bit of our music.
Speaker B:That's what makes Chosen Ken.
Speaker B:Ok.
Speaker A:Chosen Ken.
Speaker C:Yeah, it makes a great piano.
Speaker A:Okay, so what black artists are you listening to?
Speaker A:Right now, Ryan and Harry and all of us.
Speaker A:But who are you jamming out to?
Speaker A:Who do we need to listen to?
Speaker A:Let's get into the things.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:First.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:You want me to start with.
Speaker B:Do you want me to start?
Speaker B:Who I'm listening to?
Speaker A:Who you're listening to, and also who you recommend.
Speaker A:You will recommend, like, who you listening to.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:Or you're like, maybe I thought I was ready.
Speaker B:No, who am I listening to the most?
Speaker B:So I'm always.
Speaker B:I'm going back.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:I've been listening to.
Speaker B:I saw Brandy at the Roots picnic, and I've been.
Speaker B:I have a specific playlist for her called B Rocka, the Vocal Bible.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker B:Where I have all of my favorite songs.
Speaker B:I just put on shuffle.
Speaker B:I don't know where it's going to start, what vibe is going to give me.
Speaker B:But I. I've been listening to a lot of Brandi.
Speaker B:Kehlani's album's been in rotation.
Speaker B:I'm always listening to Dustin Conrad, Jalen Josie.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:She dropped a really amazing album called Serial Romantic.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:And her song Love Ain't is like.
Speaker B:Can I cuss?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:She concurrent.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Is really, like, hitting me the core right now.
Speaker B:Because Love ain't.
Speaker B:But that's a whole nother episode for another day.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:But, yes, that's who I'm listen.
Speaker B:That's who I recommend.
Speaker B:Jalen Josie.
Speaker B:I love her.
Speaker B:What was the next one?
Speaker B:Was there something after that?
Speaker B:Who was that?
Speaker A:No, that was it.
Speaker A:I feel like.
Speaker A:No, you.
Speaker A:You hit it.
Speaker A:I have been feeling Jalen Josie for sure.
Speaker A:I love that she's queer.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker B:The daughter of the vocal bible dropped her debut single, Sarah.
Speaker B:It's called Late Night or Last Night?
Speaker C:Late Night or Last Night?
Speaker C:I'm not even sure.
Speaker C:I think I saw the beach today.
Speaker B:I listened to it, and I'm like, she is the daughter of the vocal bar.
Speaker B:You can hear her mother's influence all through the song.
Speaker B:Sorry, I. I forgot all about.
Speaker B:So I'm very excited because, like, it's.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's in her, you know?
Speaker B:Like, it's in her.
Speaker B:Like, not only is her mom, you know, the vocal Bible, like, the black sentence, Cinderella, like, that's Brandy, Moesha, whatever.
Speaker B:But her dad is a producer, like, he was.
Speaker B:If you.
Speaker B:If you read Brandy's memoir, you know, he was very heavily involved with Full Moon, where she.
Speaker B:How she was conceived, you know?
Speaker B:You know, but she has it.
Speaker B:It's in her genes, you know, so it's in our bloodline.
Speaker B:So, yes, I would Heavily Check out.
Speaker B:I'm very excited to see what she does next.
Speaker C:I have a curiosity around you because I know you talk about Brandy.
Speaker C:What's your favorite Brandy album?
Speaker C:Do y' all want to share?
Speaker A:It changes, but, like, Brandy is just everything to me.
Speaker A:I think I'm in my grown woman aphrodisiac era.
Speaker A:Like, say you will how you feel, so you will.
Speaker A:And then what was that other song?
Speaker A:I forget what the song is.
Speaker A:I'm gonna look at it, but a lot of people cover it.
Speaker A:I don't even think.
Speaker A:I'm unsure if this is her song, but I could be wrong.
Speaker A:Like, how dare I?
Speaker A:But aphrodisiac is where I'm living right now.
Speaker A:Love a full moon.
Speaker B:Love.
Speaker A:Never say never, of course.
Speaker A:But that was Never say never was like my childhood.
Speaker A:That's what it felt core to right now.
Speaker A:Aphrodisiac.
Speaker A:I'm grown.
Speaker A:What about y'?
Speaker C:All?
Speaker C:Never say never is my favorite.
Speaker C:Like, I love never say never.
Speaker C:I do like aphrodisiac.
Speaker C:I do like full moon.
Speaker C:I love human.
Speaker C:Funny thing, I feel like after Never say never is human for me, but everybody.
Speaker C:Everybody seems to be like, oh, no, no.
Speaker C:But human.
Speaker A:They hate that era.
Speaker C:Human, no skills for me.
Speaker C:I feel like I know Brandi doesn't even like the album.
Speaker B:She hates it.
Speaker B:Well, she has a newfound respect for her.
Speaker B:She said.
Speaker C:But yeah, in her book, she said that after her daughter, you know, connected to the album.
Speaker C:One thing, one thing, one thing.
Speaker C:But I'm like that.
Speaker C:That album got me through my.
Speaker C:When I was trying to pray to get away.
Speaker C:That was my album.
Speaker B:Trying to play her way.
Speaker A:I found the song necessary.
Speaker A:Oh, I love necessary.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker B:So for me, I'm always gonna say never say never.
Speaker A:Stay ready so you ain't got to get ready.
Speaker B:It's blown up on my wall.
Speaker B:It fell already, but it's going back up on my wall.
Speaker B:But however, B7, a lot of people's B7 is.
Speaker B:It had the grow on me, but it didn't take long for it to grow on me.
Speaker B:However, my only complaint now, I feel like if she's going to continue to work with DJ Kent, I don't.
Speaker B:She don't need all that vocal.
Speaker B:She don't need all that extraness in her voice.
Speaker B:It's already an instrument of its own.
Speaker B:She don't need all that extra stuff.
Speaker B:Rather be I love you.
Speaker B:Missing you, baby.
Speaker C:That's album.
Speaker C:I'm sorry.
Speaker C:That's the only song, and I like it because of the colors.
Speaker C:Because of the colors.
Speaker B:Performance I watched it like every morning.
Speaker B:I listened to that.
Speaker B:That's the only version I listened to, but I appreciate that.
Speaker C:I listen to it Borderline.
Speaker B:I appreciate Borderline.
Speaker B:She wasn't vocally insane on that song.
Speaker B:And also I was on the borderline a few times, so.
Speaker B:Relatable.
Speaker B:Okay, say something.
Speaker B:What?
Speaker B:I'm like, yeah, it's between.
Speaker B:Never, Never.
Speaker B:Never say Never is a blueprint.
Speaker B:I always say if I decide to dip into music.
Speaker B:I used to sing, but I'm not.
Speaker B:I didn't protect my instrument like I should have.
Speaker B:I would study that album, you know, like literally that and Full Moon.
Speaker B:But yeah, it's between B7 and never say Never.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:That's such a good question.
Speaker A:Like, I feel like I would answer it differently, depending on my mood and my vibe.
Speaker B:Depending on the mood.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Deep in my.
Speaker A:Sliding down the wall, I'm crying in the shower.
Speaker A:I'm turning on Never say Never.
Speaker A:I'm not even gonna lie to you.
Speaker A:It's so.
Speaker A:It gives.
Speaker A:So angsty.
Speaker A:Like young adolescent girl coming up age.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:It's everything.
Speaker C:And I put it to growing me, though.
Speaker C:But I will have to listen again.
Speaker C:I'll have to go back again.
Speaker B:Yes, please do.
Speaker B:Because I think I just wrote a. I wrote an article on.
Speaker B:What's it called?
Speaker B:Substack.
Speaker B:Substack.
Speaker B:Substack.
Speaker B:Either way, I wrote an article made me revisit her entire discography after reading her memoir Phases.
Speaker B:And I grew more appreciation for her as a person, an artist.
Speaker B:And I love her.
Speaker B:I just love her so much.
Speaker B:Her music has gotten me through.
Speaker B:Yeah, shout out to Brandi.
Speaker C:Shout out to Brandy.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, she gives us some new music, Chi.
Speaker C:See, I mean, even if she don't.
Speaker A:Tore that music into the ground, any of it, like, okay, she can do what Janet Jackson do and just tour internationally.
Speaker B:I'm in like this.
Speaker B:This new era she's doing.
Speaker B:Like, when she came on at the Roots picnic, I was like, hold on.
Speaker B:Is she teasing a solo tour?
Speaker B:Because it was like the Rewind tour.
Speaker B:And I'm like, that would be.
Speaker B:That would eat.
Speaker B:And she's dancing like she.
Speaker B:She's in her bag, so.
Speaker B:And she got some new little mixes in there.
Speaker B:It's amazing.
Speaker B:So it was amazing show.
Speaker B:I was like, I want more.
Speaker A:So the choreography alone, I saw.
Speaker A:She added new choreo.
Speaker A:She had they invested in that production of the clips I saw from the Roots, which.
Speaker B:What about us?
Speaker B:Live eat.
Speaker B:She hits that all that.
Speaker B:I. I can't sing.
Speaker B:But, you know, she had that All I need.
Speaker B:I was.
Speaker B:She does this little spin with it.
Speaker C:I was like, yeah, it's taking me back to the concert.
Speaker C:Taking me back to the concert.
Speaker A:I wish I went, but I don't.
Speaker A:I didn't want to see Monica.
Speaker A:No shade.
Speaker C:You don't like Monica do.
Speaker A:I do like Monica.
Speaker A:But I. I didn't necessarily want to see Monica.
Speaker A:I think I would love to see a Brandy show entirely.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:That's my.
Speaker A:That's what I would pay to see Monica.
Speaker C:Do you know what's funny?
Speaker C:I know I love Brandy is my.
Speaker C:Brandy's my top three.
Speaker C:It's Beyonce, Brandy.
Speaker C:But after Brandy's Monica for me and with Monica for real with Monica, I love all the.
Speaker C:I feel like Monica has a lot more singles that I really enjoy if I, if I line them up.
Speaker C:Like the list of Brandi singles that I love.
Speaker C:List of Monica singles I love.
Speaker C:I do have more Monica singles that I love than Brandy.
Speaker C:But I do love Brandi because Brandi is an all around entertainer.
Speaker C:Brandi can dance, she can sing, she can act, she can give me everything.
Speaker C:And like I said, never say never is one of my favorite favorite albums of all time.
Speaker C:Monica hasn't given me an album that I like full on like project that I can listen from top to bottom.
Speaker C:But Monica has a lot of singles that I enjoy.
Speaker C:That's.
Speaker A:But I, I.
Speaker A:There is.
Speaker A:I forget that one album is where it was like her.
Speaker A:It was the era that Monica did the reality show on.
Speaker A:Betty still standing.
Speaker C:That's the album.
Speaker A:Still saying it was my.
Speaker A:I was.
Speaker A:I had a single mother.
Speaker A:I had a single mother.
Speaker A:So you know, she was banging it like I was in that back seat and I'm still standing.
Speaker B:Everybody had that haircut too.
Speaker C:She had.
Speaker C:Yeah, she had the haircut.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:I think that's gonna be Monica.
Speaker C:Like Susan.
Speaker C:It was a good album.
Speaker C:Love it.
Speaker C:But like I can't got some songs I would skip.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker C:I will never skip a.
Speaker C:Never seen every album.
Speaker C:I will never skip a human album.
Speaker C:But I feel like every era of Monica there's a song that I like.
Speaker C:Like even there's a.
Speaker C:There's an album I don't even listen to.
Speaker C:The one that had the song with Lil Wayne.
Speaker C:I never listened to the album but I like the song with Lil Wayne.
Speaker C:Just right for me.
Speaker C:But I feel like with Brandy it's exactly.
Speaker C:But with Brandy it is self titled.
Speaker C:Never say never, Full Moon, Human Aphrodisiac.
Speaker C:Those five albums.
Speaker C:Love the singles from there.
Speaker C:When we get into I'mma put It down.
Speaker C:You go for the love.
Speaker C:I start to start.
Speaker C:I like the song is.
Speaker C:But it starts to calm down.
Speaker B:I'm like, girl, that dude 211 eats.
Speaker A:I'm like, eat and lower what you.
Speaker B:Have wish your love away 211 is just.
Speaker C:Why don't you let me go?
Speaker C:Let me go tonight Let me go.
Speaker C:And then what's the song about?
Speaker C:Hey, what's that song with the video where everybody was Wildest dreams?
Speaker C:Is that from?
Speaker A:I think so.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Yes, she does.
Speaker B:I think she has horrible single.
Speaker B:She picks horrible singles because while is baby mama.
Speaker C:I do not like that song.
Speaker B:She sounds amazing.
Speaker C:We chance the rapper or something, right?
Speaker B:That was such a horrible choice.
Speaker B:And her daughter was.
Speaker B:Is a.
Speaker B:Was.
Speaker B:Is a.
Speaker B:Was a teenager at the time.
Speaker C:Like, maybe it was very cool.
Speaker C:It was Covid.
Speaker C: It was like: Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I'm like, Brandi.
Speaker B:What?
Speaker B:Like, she.
Speaker B:She has horrible seeing a single.
Speaker B:Picking a single to promote the project.
Speaker B:But yeah, I met Monica.
Speaker B:She's really nice, though.
Speaker B:We took a picture her, me and my cousin.
Speaker B:I was like, we have the same birthday.
Speaker B:And I was like, sis, we.
Speaker B:We Scorpio gang gang.
Speaker B:She was like, gang, gang.
Speaker B:I was like, gutica all day.
Speaker C:She really is good.
Speaker B:She's locally.
Speaker B:She has gotten better.
Speaker B:She was really amazing at the boys my tour.
Speaker B:And I was like, okay.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker B:She popped up at Brandi's set on at the Roost picnic and sounded great.
Speaker B:I was like, wow.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:She has always been a vocalist, but I think it to her credit to like, as you age for your voice to get better because there are some.
Speaker A:Some of our icons.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna say no names that as they've aged.
Speaker B:Say one.
Speaker A:You know, Mariah don't sound how Mariah used to sound.
Speaker A:And I love recently you heard that clip.
Speaker A:She did Hero.
Speaker A:I'm share that with y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker A:She did hero somewhere and it was not heroic.
Speaker B:No, it wasn't.
Speaker B:It was a hero.
Speaker A:There was no hero.
Speaker A:Hero was gone.
Speaker C:There was a hero is a title of this.
Speaker A:There is no hero.
Speaker A:You know the Tyler Perry movie where they're like, what?
Speaker A:It's like they're calling the nerd the.
Speaker A:The maid or something.
Speaker A:They're like, hero.
Speaker A:Hero's gone.
Speaker A:Like, that's literally.
Speaker A:That's how it gives.
Speaker A:But, you know, always will be a legend.
Speaker A:You know, it's.
Speaker A:It's on Spotify.
Speaker A:It's solidified in the record.
Speaker A:So we don't need to hear it audibly anymore.
Speaker C:But I. I don't see my ally that's one artist.
Speaker C:I don't really need to.
Speaker C:I like.
Speaker C:I will stick to the album.
Speaker C:Like, I love Solar.
Speaker B:A couple years ago, like, Caution.
Speaker B:I won tickets.
Speaker B:I won tickets.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:Which was very rare.
Speaker B:I entered a contest.
Speaker B:They were like, comment caution on Facebook.
Speaker B:And I won.
Speaker B:And I was shocked because I never win anything.
Speaker B:So I took my mom.
Speaker B:Me and my mom win.
Speaker B:I was like, did she perform?
Speaker C:No, that's.
Speaker C:No, no, no.
Speaker B:That was a.
Speaker B:No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker B:I still play.
Speaker C:That's one of my.
Speaker B:I still play that to this day.
Speaker B:That's my.
Speaker A:I like her eras.
Speaker A:Her eras as a whole.
Speaker A:Solid.
Speaker A:Great.
Speaker A:Love it.
Speaker B:She's not going to get.
Speaker C:I'm not.
Speaker C:I'm not.
Speaker B:Emancipation of Mimi, was it.
Speaker B:That was.
Speaker C:That's peak.
Speaker C:That's peak.
Speaker C:Mariah.
Speaker B:She came back and just.
Speaker B:That was a really kick down your door and smack your chick moment.
Speaker B:Like, she kicked.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:She had bills to pay.
Speaker A:She said, I literally just left Tommy Mottola.
Speaker A:I gotta revitalize his career, babes.
Speaker B:Charm Bracelet, wasn't it?
Speaker B:She was.
Speaker B:You know, the glitter flop, like, her little flop.
Speaker C:I like Charm Bracelet.
Speaker C:Low key.
Speaker B:I like I Can Make it through the Rain.
Speaker B:That was a.
Speaker B:A very vulnerable time for me when that song came out.
Speaker C:I'm just a millennial.
Speaker C:That's what I am.
Speaker C:Because Oscar, after Emancipation of Mimi, I just know.
Speaker C:No, no, no.
Speaker C:And I know.
Speaker C:What's that song with Neo angel scry.
Speaker A:You know more than that, because we.
Speaker A:The obsessed era was everything.
Speaker A:She was talking.
Speaker A:Why you so obsessed with me?
Speaker C:Well, okay, three.
Speaker B:What's that.
Speaker B:What's that line that she said in that song?
Speaker B:I say that to this day.
Speaker B:You're a press conference.
Speaker B:You're a conversation.
Speaker B:I'm a press conference.
Speaker B:Something like that.
Speaker B:I was like, she hate that.
Speaker A:She did.
Speaker A:I liked Emc School.
Speaker A:E equals MC squared.
Speaker A:It was a little scientific, but I did like the era.
Speaker A:I did.
Speaker A:I did like.
Speaker C:Well, a little scientific is wild.
Speaker B:That is funny.
Speaker A:It's an equation.
Speaker B:It's an equation.
Speaker A:So we talked about black artists, Black queer artists.
Speaker A:Because I feel like they're more.
Speaker A:They're more visible.
Speaker C:I want to share the black artist I'm listening to.
Speaker A:Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker C:No, you're fine.
Speaker C:You're fine.
Speaker C:It gives folks want to know.
Speaker C:Because I like to, you know.
Speaker C:So there's Kehlani.
Speaker C:I got Kehlani.
Speaker C:I'm obsessed with the album.
Speaker C:Obsessed with.
Speaker C:I'm gonna see her in Chicago.
Speaker C:And I might do an Atlanta show, too.
Speaker C:It depends on how I'm feeling.
Speaker C:Depends on if my bank account comes back up.
Speaker C:Because right now, it's, like, in the.
Speaker C:It's in the gutter room.
Speaker C:I'll see.
Speaker C:I love flow.
Speaker C:I love.
Speaker C:If you break.
Speaker C:If you.
Speaker C:If you break a heart.
Speaker C:I think that's a new single that they have now.
Speaker C:I'm jamming that one.
Speaker C:I love Tiwa Savage.
Speaker C:You know, Nigerian Afrobeats.
Speaker C:That's my girl.
Speaker C:She got a new song called Energy.
Speaker C:So if you love Afrobeats, go over.
Speaker C:Go ahead and check her out.
Speaker C:Major nine.
Speaker C:Is that how you pronounce her name?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:There's a song called Wacky Key.
Speaker C:That Wak song gets me all the time.
Speaker C:Like, I want to be on the beach listening to Wakki.
Speaker C:That's my.
Speaker C:And then Leanne from Little Mix also listening to her right now.
Speaker C:So let's just drop it for the people.
Speaker C:Go check them out.
Speaker C:Really great.
Speaker C:Really great artists.
Speaker C:They're all girls, obviously, but, you know,.
Speaker A:Love a girl, and that's the girls.
Speaker A:But that's.
Speaker A:I just love personally, but I don't think I gave Tiana.
Speaker A:Major Nine.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:Who did I say earlier?
Speaker A:Jalen.
Speaker A:Josie.
Speaker A:Incredible.
Speaker A:Kehlani.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:There was someone else I was missing.
Speaker A:Oh, we gonna talk about.
Speaker A:No, she's not black.
Speaker A:We're gonna talk about that.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm gonna leave it there.
Speaker A:I'm gonna leave it there.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:I like that mix that you.
Speaker A:You love a Waikiki.
Speaker A:You will put that on a picture quick.
Speaker C:Harry, that is a.
Speaker C:That is why, you know, I'm sleeping like, you know, the cocktail, Wacky key, Carpe diem, that kind of vibe.
Speaker C:I love that on.
Speaker C:The Brits know how to do R B.
Speaker C:You gotta give it to the Brits.
Speaker A:They do.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker C:You don't like the bridge.
Speaker A:I do like when the Brits do R B, but I feel similarly to how the Brits be doing Slave films.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like, the crossover is like, you know, it kind of makes me wince a little bit, but I'm like, you is black.
Speaker A:So who am I?
Speaker A:Who am I?
Speaker A:How do you feel about that, Ryan?
Speaker A:The Brits, I agree.
Speaker B:But the.
Speaker B:They eat with the music, though.
Speaker B:I like at first, I'll be like, should I?
Speaker B:You know, Because I know how some Brits feel about America.
Speaker B:You know, they feel about America.
Speaker B:Sometimes I feel away about Americans, but.
Speaker B:But yeah, they.
Speaker B:They.
Speaker B:It just.
Speaker B:It does hit a little bit different.
Speaker B:I feel like they got some, like.
Speaker B:I don't know, they got.
Speaker B:Not saying they have more soul, but, like, It's.
Speaker B:It hits.
Speaker B:I don't know, it's something about.
Speaker B:I don't know, something about that.
Speaker B:Over.
Speaker B:What's happening?
Speaker B:Over.
Speaker B:It might be because it's dirty.
Speaker B:Over.
Speaker B:You know, I don't know.
Speaker B:Like.
Speaker A:And rain, they sad all the time.
Speaker A:That's why I think.
Speaker B:Yeah, real mellow.
Speaker B:Real mellow.
Speaker B:Real mellow.
Speaker A:Real mellow.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:You know what's funny?
Speaker C:I don't really mind them doing R B, but maybe because I'm Nigerian, I grew up in Nigeria.
Speaker C:Every.
Speaker C:All of y' all were the same to me, you know, I don't.
Speaker C:Like now.
Speaker C:I know, but I'm just like.
Speaker C:If I'm being honest, y' all were the cool kids.
Speaker C:We were the ones, you know, where we were.
Speaker C:But what I always find funny is when they rap like.
Speaker C:I do love a British rap.
Speaker C:It do be making me laugh.
Speaker B:Why British rappers?
Speaker C:Yeah, there's Stormzy.
Speaker C:They're skeptical.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You count him?
Speaker C:Who?
Speaker C:Central C. Central C, yes.
Speaker C:It's always very.
Speaker B:Odell.
Speaker B:What's his name?
Speaker B:Odile.
Speaker C:Odil.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:But the raps, it be like manding broke, broke.
Speaker A:Random.
Speaker A:Like it just.
Speaker A:It sounded.
Speaker C:But they're rapid, though.
Speaker C:It's the rap.
Speaker C:I. I do like it.
Speaker C:I do enjoy.
Speaker C:I enjoy your British rap, but it just always sounds funny.
Speaker C:Sometimes even as well with Stormzy and Odile.
Speaker C:Love it, you know, but the.
Speaker C:The accent and, you know, there is the.
Speaker C:You know how Africa.
Speaker C:There's the African American aave.
Speaker C:I think the British also have their own version of aaven, so it's not.
Speaker C:It's not, it's not.
Speaker C:It's not.
Speaker C:It's not proper English.
Speaker C:It's very, you know, so.
Speaker C:But it's like mixed with the British English tea.
Speaker C:So where they.
Speaker C:Where they rap with the mandem and the.
Speaker B:And the.
Speaker C:The Yardem and Tuesday, you know, it's always very funny, you know, I don't know.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A:It's hilarious.
Speaker A:And then.
Speaker A:But the thing is, is I get a little too logical because I'm like, y' all have strict gun laws.
Speaker A:What y' all talking about switches for?
Speaker A:Because y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker A:Y' all shank and y' all stab.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's just.
Speaker A:Let's just call spade as babe.
Speaker A:Like, they're stabbing over there.
Speaker A:They don't have guns.
Speaker A:So what are you.
Speaker A:You're rapping about shanking somebody.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's a little.
Speaker A:That's where the divide happens.
Speaker A:Because over here we talk about switch.
Speaker A:Ak da da da da da.
Speaker A:You're talking you're talking about stabbing somebody.
Speaker A:You have to be close to stab somebody.
Speaker A:So you.
Speaker B:Maybe they like.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:That's scary.
Speaker A:Yeah, it is.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Well, now we love the Brits, though.
Speaker C:Don't come for us.
Speaker C:We're all one.
Speaker C:We are chosen.
Speaker B:Ken, please.
Speaker A:You know, let's talk about Harry being a diplomat child.
Speaker A:I'm always gonna be like, they different them.
Speaker A:And here gonna be like, well, but you know, to each his own very Miss Congeniality.
Speaker A:That's Harry Blackwear artists.
Speaker A:You know, they.
Speaker A:And dare I say, is it for the Leslie Strapping be.
Speaker B:Why.
Speaker B:Why is it.
Speaker B:What's her.
Speaker B:What is the.
Speaker B:What is her name?
Speaker B:I keep saying.
Speaker B:I say Quinn, but It's like Queen K1.
Speaker A:K1.
Speaker B:She need to change it to Quint.
Speaker B:They.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:Whatever their pronouns.
Speaker B:Is she okay?
Speaker B:I'll be like, Quinn.
Speaker B:Go Quinn.
Speaker A:You're not the only one.
Speaker A:There's so many who will be like Quinn.
Speaker A:There are other people who'll be like, Kawan.
Speaker A:There's so many people.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:She's British, too.
Speaker B:Her song long I'll be in the take.
Speaker B:Was it the back of the club that.
Speaker B:Take me into another world, baby.
Speaker B:I'll be like, whoa, and don't let.
Speaker A:Me be cross Faded off that tequila.
Speaker C:The song with Killani where they were making the way.
Speaker C:They were really tonguing them themselves down at the end of that video.
Speaker C:That video had me hot.
Speaker C:I was like, okay, girl.
Speaker B:Y' all hear the T?
Speaker B:Y'.
Speaker C:All.
Speaker B:Y' all wanna.
Speaker B:Y' all know the t. Like K. K1 and Sasha, Kel and Koni.
Speaker B:They all like somebody was messing with somebody, and now somebody don't like somebody.
Speaker B:And they were all at the reefs picnic.
Speaker B:And I was like, oh, and Dustin.
Speaker B:Car friends were all.
Speaker A:And that's why I love.
Speaker A:Let me tell you something.
Speaker A:There's something about a very social butterfly gay that gonna be like.
Speaker A:I really don't care what y' all got going on.
Speaker A:We friends all.
Speaker A:I'm friend.
Speaker A:I'm not taken aside.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Me.
Speaker B:Because I'll be like, People be beefing.
Speaker B:I'll be like, hey, got to do with me.
Speaker B:I'm so sorry.
Speaker A:I. I don't think Kehlani and K1 are together anymore.
Speaker B:No, they're not.
Speaker B:I know, but they did just.
Speaker B:I saw a little behind the scenes of the roost pick.
Speaker B:They were, like, hugging.
Speaker A:They were like, hey, listen, you didn't need to give us that.
Speaker B:She was.
Speaker B:They were at the club.
Speaker B:I was gonna go, but I was very tired after Kaylani Club.
Speaker A:Kehlani.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:I was gonna go, cuz I was like, oh, Jasmine Sullivan was there too.
Speaker B:I was like, wait up.
Speaker C:All the girlies were outside.
Speaker A:That's another artist that I need her to please.
Speaker A:And I understand.
Speaker A:Reef is a long journey.
Speaker B:It is.
Speaker A:It's everything.
Speaker B:Like, something's coming.
Speaker A:So it's like outside.
Speaker B:And she looks the.
Speaker B:Like she always looked good.
Speaker B:But she's.
Speaker B:She's giving album snatch.
Speaker B:Like, I'm ready to return.
Speaker B:Like, I could be wrong, but I feel like she.
Speaker B:I could see her dropping something by at the end of the summer or fall.
Speaker B:I feel like it's kind of.
Speaker A:I think so.
Speaker A:I really do think so too.
Speaker A:That's a good point.
Speaker B:She popped up at.
Speaker B:She was on.
Speaker A:You just got treated on.
Speaker A:Treated 10 times over.
Speaker B:I was like, I have.
Speaker B:When she walked out, I was in tears.
Speaker B:I was like, you brought.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:You didn't bring B.
Speaker B:That's fine.
Speaker B:You know.
Speaker B:But you brought Jasmine Sullivan.
Speaker B:I was in my field.
Speaker B:She's.
Speaker B:She's just one of a kind.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Was Beyonce at the picnic?
Speaker C:Was she there?
Speaker A:She was there.
Speaker C:She was there.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Speaker B:Saying.
Speaker B:I can't even tell you the song.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:She sang need you back.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:But she came out originally.
Speaker B:She was singing a.
Speaker B:Was it the song.
Speaker A:Does Daisy have a song with Mary?
Speaker B:I. I'm horrible with it's somebody.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:And she's saying that part.
Speaker B:And she just eaten down.
Speaker B:And then he gave her a moment and she did need you bad and.
Speaker A:Tour need you bad still goes to this day.
Speaker B:Listen.
Speaker B:But you want to know the one?
Speaker B:Excuse me.
Speaker A:Oh, excuse me.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker B:Ryan.
Speaker A:Excuse me.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:I used to be.
Speaker B:I want to be in love like she was.
Speaker B:Because she was singing down about some man.
Speaker B:I want to feel that.
Speaker B:I want to feel it.
Speaker B:If you want to know another song of hers.
Speaker B:And she.
Speaker B:She.
Speaker B:She was on that man's album.
Speaker C:Chris Brown.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:I knew exactly what song.
Speaker A:Need somebody.
Speaker A:Need somebody.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker C:Whose album was that?
Speaker A:The love album by Diddy.
Speaker A:Multiple tracks.
Speaker B:I need her to go in the studio re record that, Take him off the end of the song.
Speaker B:Because he's really.
Speaker B:He doesn't come up in the middle of song.
Speaker B:In the song, he's only at the end.
Speaker B:And we can cut that.
Speaker B:She can cut that part out.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:She tore that song.
Speaker B:And I hate giving him a spin, but I'll give that song a spin.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:He's on my don't listen list right now.
Speaker C:I know.
Speaker C:Go and check it out.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:But he don't be singing.
Speaker A:So it.
Speaker B:He don't sing, produce or produce.
Speaker A:Let me say that the tracks that you produce with, like, there's a Kehlani record.
Speaker A:Kehlani and Ty Dollar Sign record on that album too, that I love.
Speaker A:And I had to just let go.
Speaker A:Let go of it.
Speaker C:There's already songs I've had to let go, and it hurts me.
Speaker C:You know, example is, well, this is random, but.
Speaker C:And she's not even black.
Speaker C:The Kristen Aguilera song with him and I'm peak Millennial.
Speaker C:That was our.
Speaker C:That was our jam.
Speaker C:You know, do that, do it, do that, do that, do it.
Speaker C:That was my jam, and I can't listen to that anymore.
Speaker A:This is the way you quoted his line specifically.
Speaker C:So funny because, like, I'm saying, like, Christina.
Speaker C:No, who am I?
Speaker C:Who am I in the grand scheme of things?
Speaker C:The belt, like, you know, Christina Aguilera.
Speaker A:You are somebody.
Speaker A:Harry, he's from Pittsburgh.
Speaker B:Fun fact.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:She is her sister.
Speaker B:I met her sister.
Speaker A:She got a sister?
Speaker B:Yeah, a little sister.
Speaker B:Well, younger sister.
Speaker B:At the time.
Speaker B:She was dating my.
Speaker B:My friend's cousin.
Speaker B:Saw her at a birthday party.
Speaker B:I was like, wow.
Speaker B:Years ago.
Speaker B:Very well.
Speaker A:It's too small.
Speaker A:It's too small.
Speaker A:But I love that.
Speaker A:So we mentioned Dustin.
Speaker A:Dustin Conrad.
Speaker A:K1.
Speaker A:I was about to say Quinn Child for black artists.
Speaker A:Black queer artists.
Speaker A:Tiana Major 9 is queer.
Speaker B:I just found that out.
Speaker A:It's been recent that I'm like, okay, the girls are.
Speaker B:She's queer.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker A:Yeah, I do.
Speaker A:Everybody generally is a little bit queer.
Speaker A:Everybody.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:Every time I go to Bulldogs, I'd never see a fight.
Speaker B:I don't know would be.
Speaker B:I'd be like, I miss Never see a fight.
Speaker A:Let me tell you something.
Speaker A:I don't go to Bulldogs anymore since they charge me $20 the door and then charge every.
Speaker A:All the men in the line $5.
Speaker A:I said, oh, I see discrimination.
Speaker A:Okay, $20.
Speaker C:You know what you about this gay man.
Speaker C:They don't want that.
Speaker C:They don't want.
Speaker C:If you're.
Speaker C:They don't want me.
Speaker C:They don't want anybody in their space.
Speaker A:I was a drop in the bucket.
Speaker A:I really was.
Speaker A:It was just me, but I was.
Speaker A:I had friends.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:I was with four or five other men.
Speaker A:What that look like?
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But Bulldogs is a good time.
Speaker A:I heard it's a great little after hours spot and they always have the music and strong drinks.
Speaker A:You always will get a strong drink.
Speaker B:I'll be done.
Speaker C:Yeah, done.
Speaker A:You'll be gone.
Speaker A:Please.
Speaker A:Black pride Please write.
Speaker B:I think I might have to.
Speaker B:I got a little bit extended.
Speaker A:You already know.
Speaker A:We are going to be there.
Speaker C:We're going to be there.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker B:You know, connect.
Speaker B:I'll let y' all know.
Speaker A:Yes, I would love that.
Speaker A:Who are you listening to?
Speaker A:Ryan and Harry.
Speaker A:That are like, queer.
Speaker A:Duran.
Speaker B:Black queer.
Speaker B:Yes, definitely.
Speaker B:Destin Conrad, Jalen, Josie.
Speaker B:I gotta know she was queer.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's.
Speaker B:I listened to Warren Dumas.
Speaker B:Warren is an amazing artist that's been on the scene.
Speaker B:I've had him on Ryan Out Loud multiple times.
Speaker B:He has an amazing EP called Glitter on Fire.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:He's released new.
Speaker B:Couple new songs.
Speaker B:He's about to reemerge with some new music soon.
Speaker B:Oh, Duran.
Speaker B:Bernard.
Speaker B: ing Duran on Ryan out loud in: Speaker B:I had a. I got it.
Speaker B:I did an interview for a local magazine and I was like.
Speaker B:They were like, what's the.
Speaker B:Not an achievement, but something you're proud.
Speaker B:Like, I had a Grammy Award winner on my podcast.
Speaker C:So shout out to that.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Duran's amazing.
Speaker B:I love what he's doing.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:I think that's really.
Speaker B:I have a whole playlist, like anybody that's been on my podcast, I. I make.
Speaker B:I release.
Speaker B:I put up.
Speaker B:Put together a little Rant Out Loud playlist with black.
Speaker B:Nothing but black LGBTQ plus artists.
Speaker B:So that's a lot of independent, a lot of mainstream, but definitely more mostly independent.
Speaker C:We love the independent girlies.
Speaker C:You know, in the words of Beyonce, I'm listening to this artist, Remy.
Speaker C:I don't know if it's a Nigerian Remy or just a Remy, but they're.
Speaker B:They're.
Speaker C:They're from Arkansas.
Speaker C:They're black.
Speaker C:They're a stud from what I can see.
Speaker C:But they have a song called On Site.
Speaker C:They have a song called On Site, and it's so good.
Speaker C:It is so good.
Speaker C:I've been playing that constantly inside.
Speaker C:On site.
Speaker C:On site, on site, On Site.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So I've been playing her.
Speaker C:Her stuff, and I think that she actually has worked with some big artists, too, I think, as a songwriter as well.
Speaker C:So her stuff is good.
Speaker C:And I love 2am Ricky.
Speaker C:2Am Ricky, Atlanta Bass.
Speaker C:Love.
Speaker C:Irrational.
Speaker C:That's my.
Speaker C:I have that on the loop.
Speaker C:So I really enjoy 2am Ricky as well.
Speaker C:So those are like the black queer artists that are, of course, the Kehlani and, you know, Tiana Major 9.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And everybody else.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I feel like there's so many that, like, I'm.
Speaker A:They're like, escaping me, like, as well.
Speaker A:I'm sure after I'm be like, I was supposed to say this person.
Speaker A:This person.
Speaker A:We all gay.
Speaker A:How about that?
Speaker B:Y.
Speaker A:Speaking of.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:Speaking of R and B, how do you feel about the term strapping B?
Speaker A:Because they calling these lesbians strapping B.
Speaker B:I heard the term for the first time, like a.
Speaker B:Like recently, like, maybe like a month.
Speaker B:I was like, strapping B is crazy.
Speaker B:Oh, that is so crazy.
Speaker B:I. I don't.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker B:And they hate it.
Speaker B:I think with K1 was like, why?
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And she just wants to be R and B.
Speaker A:But my thing is, I'm curious how y' all feel about it.
Speaker A:K1 is a perfect example, because I don't hear no song that's not about her fucking.
Speaker A:Every song is like, back in the back of the club Love I'm.
Speaker A:Bust you down, Paint my nails.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Talk you through it.
Speaker A:My.
Speaker A:So how you kind of lean into or strap and be.
Speaker A:But you want people to be like, oh, I understand it is R and B.
Speaker A:But at the end of the day, if the topic is sexual, I'm not shocked that they named a strapping B.
Speaker B:You know what you would.
Speaker B:What else is.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Do you feel like it's.
Speaker C:Cause, like the.
Speaker C:I feel like, is there, like, maybe they don't want to be put in the box of like, okay, my music now is strictly for lesbians or people that use straps.
Speaker C:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:You want to appeal to, like, everybody else.
Speaker A:People that use straps is crazy.
Speaker C:You got to be.
Speaker C:You got to be.
Speaker C:How you speak about these.
Speaker A:That's true.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:I Real quick, this has made me think of they Said, Kehlani's most recent album.
Speaker B:They said that is a non binary album because she does not sing.
Speaker C:She.
Speaker B:Or he or you know, like, I was like.
Speaker B:And I listened to.
Speaker B:I was like, hold on.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker A:And there's a lot of men on that album, which I kind of hate.
Speaker B:I was very shocked.
Speaker B:I. I was shocked.
Speaker B:There was like.
Speaker B:She didn't need.
Speaker B:I like the lights on.
Speaker B:I don't think she need Big Sean.
Speaker B:She definitely didn't need Lil Wayne.
Speaker A:You disagree?
Speaker C:I agree that she didn't.
Speaker C:She doesn't.
Speaker C:She didn't.
Speaker C:I think.
Speaker C:I think the same thing.
Speaker C:So she didn't need Big Shut on Lights on.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:At all.
Speaker B:You could have did that by herself.
Speaker B:And I just was.
Speaker B:What's getting me now?
Speaker B:I like, what's the song she got with Missy back and forth.
Speaker B:Yeah, I like that one now.
Speaker B:At first I was like, okay, but I love that now.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's a good, like, middle album song as it transitions into a slower tempo.
Speaker A:Yeah, I definitely.
Speaker C:I didn't like.
Speaker C:I didn't like Leon Thomas on Sweet Nothing.
Speaker B:Sweet.
Speaker B:I like that one because I. I heard.
Speaker C:I heard.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker C:Let me, Let me.
Speaker C:Let me rephrase.
Speaker C:Leon Thomas and Sweet Nothings is not bad, right?
Speaker C:The.
Speaker C:The ballad with.
Speaker C:With the guy with the male vocal and the female voc in the beginning.
Speaker C:Nice.
Speaker C:But the demo is rich on his own.
Speaker C:Like, her just singing it and it's on the expanded album.
Speaker C:Her just singing it by herself.
Speaker C:I love.
Speaker B:I gotta listen to that.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:You didn't need.
Speaker B:You didn't need him.
Speaker C:Like, you could have done this by yourself.
Speaker C:Like, I feel like some of those features were.
Speaker C:Because I don't know if you're trying to get a heat or like, maybe get like a number one album or something like that.
Speaker C:But, like, I don't know, like, you.
Speaker A:Know, budget big post folded.
Speaker A:She was like, the budget is big.
Speaker A:Look like that's what it gave.
Speaker B:Theater outside venues.
Speaker B:If the budget's big, go into an arena.
Speaker A:But, you know, she kind of responded to that low key.
Speaker A:She was like, apparently the amphitheaters are actually seat more people than the arenas.
Speaker A:That's because they have the grassy area, they have the seated area, they have a standing pit.
Speaker A:It's still.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I don't get it, you know, But.
Speaker C:I hear it felt very intentional on her part to want to do amphitheaters, because I feel like every venue.
Speaker C:I think it's only New York and Minneapolis that it's in a.
Speaker C:It's not an amphitheater.
Speaker C:Everywhere else is an amphitheater.
Speaker C:It looks like so.
Speaker C:And I hate.
Speaker C:I hate amphitheaters.
Speaker A:Like, I hate them.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:That's where I first saw Destiny's Child at.
Speaker A:And I'm like, like, are we at an amusement park?
Speaker A:Are we at Kings Dominion?
Speaker B:I had a blast, you know, but.
Speaker A:And people already falling out in the regular.
Speaker A:In the air conditioned, like, pit.
Speaker C:So, yeah, I saw SWV and Escape at the amphitheater in Tampa, and it wasn't bad.
Speaker C:But also, if I had seen them in a regular venue, I would.
Speaker C:If I would have preferred that not to be outside, you know, because if it rains, you are.
Speaker C:You have to be in the rain.
Speaker C:You know, Even though I was in the rain for Beyonce, but still, you.
Speaker A:Know, And I'm curious, have y' all heard about the shows that are at SeaWorld in Florida?
Speaker B:I saw the lineup.
Speaker B:It's fire.
Speaker A:Look at when I tell you.
Speaker A:I saw on Tik Tok, this woman had her baby in the baby character.
Speaker A:Yes, I saw that.
Speaker A:She almost shook that baby.
Speaker A:I thought the baby was gonna fall out.
Speaker B:I was like, I'm.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm on my phone, like, get him.
Speaker A:Get him playing.
Speaker A:It was like some.
Speaker A:It was somebody that had asked.
Speaker A:Yes, it was a Yan Twins, but with Shamu.
Speaker B:Why y' all wait?
Speaker C:The Yin Yang twins were playing at Sea World.
Speaker A:Let me pull up the list.
Speaker A:The lineup is actually fire.
Speaker A:It's for the Millennials.
Speaker B:It is.
Speaker B:It's for.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Let me.
Speaker A:Because honestly, it's always been lit, apparently.
Speaker A:I think they were doing them last year and people were like, yeah, people.
Speaker B:Caught on last year.
Speaker B:So they're like, let's do it again.
Speaker A:Let's do it.
Speaker A:And they were a hit because I think they're low cost.
Speaker A:Let me see.
Speaker A:Yup, they got genuine.
Speaker A:They gonna do Bow Wow in the franchise, boys.
Speaker A: They gonna do a pop: Speaker A:It looks like it's part of.
Speaker A:It's a few of.
Speaker A:Of NSync, not all of NSync.
Speaker A:E40, Ashanti, Soulja Boy and Paul Wall.
Speaker A:Jordan Sparks.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker A:I was in my little Jordan Sparks era too Short and Warren G also are gonna be there.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker C:Speaking of Jody's rocks, do y' all remember where she released the Red Sagrea?
Speaker C:The rest of Gray songs, and then the girls now put it over the Old Navy.
Speaker C:They put it over the Old Navy.
Speaker C:They said I was Old Navy.
Speaker C:Music that was like.
Speaker B:It was a moment like, girl, what is you doing?
Speaker B:Just like with Mary with the crispy chicken.
Speaker A:You know, she.
Speaker A:She is actually sick of us.
Speaker A:After she said that she.
Speaker A:That she hates it, people.
Speaker B:And then they start doing crispy chicken.
Speaker A:What is it wrapped in a tortilla?
Speaker B:Blame Yandy, because she is Yandy Yandy, the one that Turn that up.
Speaker A:I love when someone has a good turn that up moment.
Speaker A:It actually hits.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:I remind people because, like, what I do on my TikTok, I. I've started this little thing where I.
Speaker B:It's like this.
Speaker B:I don't know how I started this, but it was like when you asked me to play, I said, so I'll give you an example.
Speaker B:I did one.
Speaker B:I said, when you asked me to play.
Speaker B:Oh, my God, I can't.
Speaker B:When you asked me to play Beyonce, and it's not crazy.
Speaker B:In love or single ladies.
Speaker B:And I pick a deep cut.
Speaker B:And that's been my Jewish.
Speaker B:Like, I did.
Speaker B:I reminded people that the crispy Everybody wants is the use of the crispy chicken.
Speaker B:But that's actually a song.
Speaker B:I don't mind.
Speaker B:And it's fire.
Speaker B:And people were in the comments when I posted it, when it was like, you got to get it in that viral moment.
Speaker B:And people were like, I forgot that was a real song.
Speaker B:And it got like, yeah, I forgot that, too.
Speaker A:I just thought it was crispy chicken, fresh lettuce.
Speaker B:No, the song.
Speaker B:It's really a good song.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:Educating the girls.
Speaker C:You know, for real.
Speaker A:We would still be singing that Burger King song.
Speaker B:I'm a thing.
Speaker B:Both.
Speaker A:Auntie is mad.
Speaker A:She's mad at us.
Speaker B:And it's funny because Scott.
Speaker B:Scott went to Scott Evans.
Speaker B:Scott Evans.
Speaker B:Love him.
Speaker C:I don't.
Speaker B:I think his facial reaction when she was like, oh, I hate that.
Speaker B:Like, he was like.
Speaker B:I think he was expecting a little key.
Speaker A:He wanted to sing it so bad.
Speaker B:I know he did.
Speaker B:His face was like, I don't think.
Speaker C:She likes it.
Speaker B:After that.
Speaker B:And now it just went, like.
Speaker B:It just went viral.
Speaker B:She was at home.
Speaker B:I know she was cussing up a.
Speaker A:Storm, like, because it went back viral.
Speaker A:It was like, it went viral back before viral was, like, really a thing.
Speaker A:And then for it to come back, ooh.
Speaker A:It has a new life of his own.
Speaker A:For real.
Speaker A:Well, okay.
Speaker A:I appreciate y' all amusing me around the strap and be conversation, because I don't feel bad, but I will respect it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:There's some artists that I'm like, yeah, I understand why you don't want to be like, ombre.
Speaker A:I love me some ombre.
Speaker A:She does not want to be called Strapping B.
Speaker A:She said, hell, she is about to drop a new album.
Speaker B:Did you know, Fun fact.
Speaker B:Did you know that her and Dustin Conrad formed a duo?
Speaker A:Yes, I.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:I forget what this.
Speaker C:It was.
Speaker B:I'm look it up, but they have a song called Sunflower or something.
Speaker B:They have a few songs or chat.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:But I just found that out, like, at the beginning of the year.
Speaker B:And I was like, what?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:And they always are in each other's backgrounds, which is really cute.
Speaker B:His interlude.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:On his satin album, Fire.
Speaker A:I'm trying to find it, but I.
Speaker B:Don't think he's never missed.
Speaker B:He's never misses.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:I'm pretty sure they have a set.
Speaker A:They have profiles on streaming.
Speaker A:Because I've seen it before.
Speaker B:I have to.
Speaker B:I saved it on my playlist.
Speaker B:I have to.
Speaker B:I can't.
Speaker B:My phone is in the distance.
Speaker B:But, yeah, they would.
Speaker B:Yeah, they.
Speaker B:Ombre's fire.
Speaker B:I'm very excited.
Speaker B:Sid.
Speaker B:Sid about to drop a new album.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker B:Steve Lacy.
Speaker B:Who's that?
Speaker B:Well, he's a part of the Internet.
Speaker B:Remember the Internet?
Speaker C:Yeah, Steve Lacy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:I don't like.
Speaker B:Well, he don't like us.
Speaker A:He don't like us.
Speaker C:That's what.
Speaker C:That's what I told be.
Speaker C:That's what I told be.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Before we get there, we can't get too much into the pieces of.
Speaker A:Because we get in there.
Speaker A:I see where y' all at, and I'm glad you with me.
Speaker A:So before we hop into it, you know that tiny desk is doing Black Music Month specials.
Speaker A:I just saw Joe's.
Speaker A:Have y' all seen Joe's?
Speaker B:I see.
Speaker B:I haven't sat down to watch it yet, but I was excited because all the things your mama dudes want.
Speaker B:The best R and B ballads of all time.
Speaker B:But the clip I heard, I was like, yes.
Speaker B:They said he's struggling because he has veneers.
Speaker B:And they said he was struggling a little bit.
Speaker B:However, I heard people say it was really good.
Speaker A:He had a grill.
Speaker A:He had a bottom grill on.
Speaker B:They had a bottom.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:So they were like.
Speaker B:They couldn't.
Speaker B:He couldn't sing through his veneers.
Speaker B:And then they said his background singers were horrible.
Speaker A:They were bad.
Speaker A:Terrible.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So I don't know.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:The.
Speaker C:The.
Speaker C:That's my favorite R B song, too.
Speaker C:One of my favorite R B songs that.
Speaker C:I was heavily disappointed.
Speaker C:I watched the Tiny Death still.
Speaker B:I don't want to watch it now.
Speaker A:It wasn't terrible.
Speaker A:It wasn't bad, but it wasn't like where it should have been.
Speaker A:And I was watching it with my little boo thing.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:Love that for you, you know, I.
Speaker A:Like it for me, too.
Speaker A:It's been a minute, Ryan.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:That's my hating voice.
Speaker B:I love that for you.
Speaker A:Because Black Pride.
Speaker A:You'll come back with one because Harry did.
Speaker A:Harry came back with my long distance love.
Speaker B:They in D.C. yeah.
Speaker C:Well, it didn't last, though.
Speaker C:It lasted for like four months or five months or something.
Speaker A:But that's because.
Speaker A:Let's not get into it.
Speaker A:But it was astro.
Speaker A:Astrologically, it wasn't a good fit.
Speaker B:What's the sign?
Speaker B:What was your.
Speaker B:What's your sign?
Speaker C:I'm a Taurus and he was a Sag.
Speaker C:But I don't think that's bad, though.
Speaker C:Was he bad?
Speaker C:I Think that's a.
Speaker C:You know.
Speaker C:But yes.
Speaker C:Back to Joe and.
Speaker C:And the grills.
Speaker A:He had the.
Speaker A:He had one bottom grill.
Speaker A:He was chained out.
Speaker A:The chains was crazy.
Speaker A:The outfit was okay.
Speaker A:He's in that like older man.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:He was looking like an uncle.
Speaker C:He was giving very much.
Speaker A:He was looking like an uncle.
Speaker A:And then I feel like his background singers were like friends of the family.
Speaker A:Friends of friends.
Speaker A:Cuz he brought his daughter out and you know, I was like, okay.
Speaker A:And she sang the best out of on like there was like two.
Speaker A:That was so.
Speaker A:It was cute.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:And no shade.
Speaker A:I just hate when our icons don't really take care of their skin or don't take like.
Speaker A:He wasn't as greased up as I'm used to seeing Joe greasy to.
Speaker A:You know, that bald head used to shine, boy.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:And he could have used a little chapstick.
Speaker A:So I don't come for me.
Speaker A:Don't come for me.
Speaker A:He was a little ashy around the mouth.
Speaker A:No shade.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:I was like.
Speaker C:I used to have a crush on Joe back in the day.
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker C:That was like.
Speaker C:I would be like.
Speaker C:I had it recorded and everything.
Speaker C:I was just like.
Speaker C:I said I'm a Joe, you know.
Speaker C:But I was like, this is not giving.
Speaker C:He looked like an uncle.
Speaker C:He looked like.
Speaker C:Literally look like an uncle.
Speaker C:You see at the.
Speaker C:At the function at the cookout.
Speaker A:And I was like, joe, that's you.
Speaker A:I see his little videos on 106 the park or late nights.
Speaker A:I'll be like, what was I, 15 more.
Speaker A:He saying more.
Speaker A:He did say and more sounded.
Speaker A:It sounded good.
Speaker A:It did.
Speaker B:Okay, maybe I'm.
Speaker B:We'll see.
Speaker A:Watching for the culture.
Speaker A:It gave him a view because, you know, they don't like to put us on tiny desk and then flow a tree.
Speaker A:I watched a little bit of flow Tree.
Speaker B:Solid clip.
Speaker B:I haven't.
Speaker B:I haven't sat down.
Speaker B:I've been so busy.
Speaker B:I haven't sat down to actually watch.
Speaker B:Like I'll be late, but I'll watch it even.
Speaker C:Was Amanda Seals there,.
Speaker A:Harry?
Speaker C:I'm curious.
Speaker C:Was she there?
Speaker C:She's in Florida.
Speaker B:Tree right in the audience.
Speaker A:She was not there.
Speaker A:You know, they don't like her.
Speaker B:They hate her.
Speaker A:They hate her.
Speaker A:They just.
Speaker A:She doesn't was a replacement for Natalie, right?
Speaker C:I had to ask.
Speaker C:Yeah, I just had to ask.
Speaker B:I didn't even know she's saying until she said that on that interview.
Speaker B:And I was like, I have never.
Speaker A:Seen a clip of Amanda Seals singing.
Speaker B:She got a song though, that I do like.
Speaker B:It's called not today.
Speaker B:And it's just.
Speaker B:It's called.
Speaker B:I like it because she'd just be speaking my language about.
Speaker C:Okay, an interesting character, you know, very much.
Speaker A:Oh, that's.
Speaker A:That is a topic.
Speaker A:Especially the Dr. Cheyenne Bryant stuff.
Speaker A:She just dragged that along, right?
Speaker A:We talked about that a couple weeks ago.
Speaker B:People were just forgetting.
Speaker B:And here she comes.
Speaker A:Here she come.
Speaker A:No one asked you to speak up.
Speaker A:Are you her, Are you her bodyguard?
Speaker B:You're a bodyguard?
Speaker A:No, literally, the light skinned brigade.
Speaker A:They gotta stick up for each other, I guess.
Speaker C:You know, Amanda too doesn't like being called light skinned.
Speaker C:She doesn't like it at all.
Speaker C:She doesn't like to be.
Speaker C:Be called a colorist.
Speaker C:She doesn't like.
Speaker A:Well, who you want to be a colorist.
Speaker A:But light skin she doesn't like.
Speaker C:She does not.
Speaker C:But because she doesn't, she doesn't believe she has light skin privilege, allegedly.
Speaker C:Please, everything is alleged before I get sued.
Speaker C:Allegedly.
Speaker C:She doesn't believe she has light skinned privilege, Allegedly.
Speaker C:She doesn't like to be called light skin, allegedly.
Speaker C:I think I'll keep the rest of myself, but yeah, allegedly, yeah.
Speaker C:Did you all see the paradox around Tiny Decks, the rock band from Atlanta?
Speaker C:The black punk rock band?
Speaker A:No, but I saw that they won finally, the competition.
Speaker C:They were really good.
Speaker C:They were really good.
Speaker A:What's that?
Speaker B:I missed that they're an all black punk rock band.
Speaker C:They're very.
Speaker C:I feel like here's my.
Speaker C:I don't want to call it my critique.
Speaker C:I don't want to.
Speaker A:Why can't it be your critique?
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker C:Because I, I can't critique how people sound.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker C:Because you sound how you sound.
Speaker A:You got ears.
Speaker C:I feel like, I feel like.
Speaker A:Is that you can't.
Speaker C:I feel like if I close my eyes and listen to them, I think it's like Blink 182 singing.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:And in my head I'm like, okay, fine, I get it.
Speaker C:That's the genre of the music.
Speaker C:But like, I also want to feel.
Speaker C:But I guess, you know, people can make an argument that what does, what does black sound like?
Speaker C:So I get that argument.
Speaker C:Now.
Speaker C:I don't want to sound like I'm trying to put them in a box or anything.
Speaker C:But like, I think that like when Beyonce does country music or when K. Michelle does country music, you know, it's.
Speaker C:Or when Willie Jones does country music, you can feel that, okay, this is a black person doing country music.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker C:Or when Prince is doing rock and roll or when Tina Turner is Doing rock and roll.
Speaker C:When I close my eyes and listen to them, I feel like I'm listening to a bunch of white boys singing.
Speaker C:But they're good.
Speaker C:I enjoyed that tiny desk.
Speaker C:It was really fun.
Speaker A:I need to watch it.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker B:You guys familiar with Infinity Song?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:I'm trying to get into them a little bit more.
Speaker B:I think they just dropped something.
Speaker B:Did they just drop an album?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:The sister, I heard her song.
Speaker B:She got a song.
Speaker B:Momo.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:I like the one song that she dropped, and I was like, oh, I need to check them out, because I.
Speaker A:Keep a whole project, apparently.
Speaker B:I listened to it, but I only liked one song from it.
Speaker A:But they're kind of like, is it that I think I'm in love again.
Speaker A:That's the way.
Speaker A:I knew it.
Speaker A:I knew it.
Speaker B:I'm sorry.
Speaker C:The only song I know is I Know Something.
Speaker C:Be a Hater, Something, Something.
Speaker C:That's the only one I know about the Hater song.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:I don't know that.
Speaker A:They're very folky.
Speaker A:Like, Infinity Song.
Speaker B:That's what I was like.
Speaker B:They're more folky than, like, a rock band.
Speaker C:A sister that went Born Again that went the Jesus way.
Speaker C:So she left the band and started doing Jesus music.
Speaker A:The Jesus way is.
Speaker B:That's like, what happened with Van Jess.
Speaker B:One of them does like Christian music with their husband.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker C:I'm sorry, I have to go about and Jess.
Speaker C:Because I love Van Jess.
Speaker A:Love Van Jess.
Speaker C:Love down.
Speaker B:Slow down with the Lucky Day.
Speaker A:I like the Lucky Day version, too.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker C:I've been working with Van Jess since they've been doing covers on.
Speaker B:On YouTube.
Speaker B:So I remember.
Speaker B:So they.
Speaker B:Chloe and Halle liked my tweet.
Speaker B:Van Jess commented on my tweet love that years ago, I was like, oh, I had.
Speaker B:That's when I was in my early stages of being a creative director.
Speaker B:I had this whole, like, sister duo tour with Van Jess and Chloe and Halle, and I was like.
Speaker B:I pitched it on Twitter and Chloe and Holly.
Speaker B:Their Twitter, they liked it.
Speaker B:And then Van Jess was like, oh, I would love that.
Speaker B:I'm like, I was ready.
Speaker C:They both been great, you know?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I'm sorry.
Speaker C:One of them went to Jesus Way because it's like, why.
Speaker C:Why can't y' all love Jesus and sing about Kuchi?
Speaker C:Oh, sorry.
Speaker C:I apologize.
Speaker A:This why the lesbians be on your ass, Harry?
Speaker A:This is why the lesbians be on.
Speaker A:Is it a cuss word?
Speaker A:It's like coochie.
Speaker C:But I'm just like.
Speaker C:I'm just like.
Speaker C:I can't you don't have to like, be a different.
Speaker C:Completely different person because you.
Speaker C:Because you.
Speaker C:You're found Jesus.
Speaker C:Or you've married someone.
Speaker C:You were making really incredible, great music with your sister.
Speaker A:I love Jesus.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Maybe they'll find their way back.
Speaker B:Find their way back.
Speaker A:You know, that's.
Speaker C:I want this to find her way back to Act 3.
Speaker C:That's what I want.
Speaker C:I'm just.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Were you part of the Delusion hive that thought it was gonna be this past week?
Speaker C:I thought it was gonna be the Met Gallery night.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I had very high.
Speaker B:I had.
Speaker B:I envisioned her coming out with black hair, like, just giving full like, actor is here.
Speaker B:Like, I did see an article release where they said.
Speaker B:She did say, like, the Cowboy Carter era is over.
Speaker B:But it's like, girl, you still got the same signature blonde hair.
Speaker B:Where's the blonde?
Speaker B:I want to see something.
Speaker A:We not getting it anytime soon because Jay Z about to drop.
Speaker A:She not going.
Speaker B:I think he's doing his thing.
Speaker C:I think she.
Speaker B:She might pop up.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:At his London show.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:At first I was thinking she going to pop up on it at the L. A show.
Speaker B:But they love London.
Speaker B:They love London, so I can see that happening.
Speaker B:Maybe she.
Speaker B:But then if she's going to break the cycle because, like, she's released all acts on the 29th and there's no more Friday 29th.
Speaker B:The rest of this year, really.
Speaker B:I feel like I looked that up.
Speaker A:And I was like, I don't think it's happening this year, honestly.
Speaker A:Because Jay Z is clearly ramping up for a project to drop for sure.
Speaker C:That is.
Speaker B:But then again, she might just break.
Speaker B:She might drop it on Juneteenth.
Speaker B:You never know.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:That's true.
Speaker C:Y' all thought I knew what her to make was a park's music.
Speaker C:I think she's.
Speaker C:She's left that in the past, you know.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:After Lion King or what is it.
Speaker A:The girls did not give Blackest King is.
Speaker A:And I'm the girls.
Speaker A:I did not give Blackest King his time.
Speaker B:But yeah, y' all really would have been mad because we were supposed to get a Black Parade tour.
Speaker B:Kobe a lot of things up.
Speaker A:But what was supposed to be the black.
Speaker B:The Black Parade tour.
Speaker B:She was supposed to do a tour based on just all of the.
Speaker C:The songs from the Gift.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You don't like Black is King?
Speaker A:Yeah, I do like Black is King.
Speaker A:Is it my Ghost album?
Speaker A:Absolutely not.
Speaker B:I think I love it.
Speaker A:You're biased, Harry.
Speaker C:You don't like The Africans.
Speaker C:Is that why you don't like Black Is King?
Speaker A:I knew he was gonna say that.
Speaker A:No, it's just like, I wasn't.
Speaker A:It felt so tied to the movie that I was like, I cannot.
Speaker A:You know.
Speaker C:You don't like the Lion King beyond.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:It came out in a really hard time in my life.
Speaker A:I'm not even gonna lie to you.
Speaker A:I think that also impacted because it was pandemic.
Speaker A:I also lost my mom that same week it came out, everyone was like, black is King.
Speaker A:And I was just like, I could croak, but I eventually got onto it.
Speaker A:But at the same time, I couldn't watch Lion King like that.
Speaker A:Or the blackest.
Speaker A:It was, we've run Lion King into the ground.
Speaker A:I want to let her rest.
Speaker A:That's what I hope for us.
Speaker A:We don't get into that no more.
Speaker A:No more remakes of Lion King.
Speaker A:No Lion King and a Half.
Speaker A:Let's be done.
Speaker B:I lowkey feel like I was like, well, are we gonna get Simba's Pride now?
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I feel like that would be a thing.
Speaker B:But blue's, like, grown now, so I don't know.
Speaker A:Simba gone, grown.
Speaker A:Simba is gone.
Speaker A:Simba is not still in the world with us.
Speaker A:Like, energetically, like, Simba was a baby when I was a baby.
Speaker A:Be like, so Simba's going.
Speaker B:It's crazy.
Speaker A:Simba's.
Speaker A:I'm just saying, Simba's kids, or maybe grandkids.
Speaker A:We could do a story about that.
Speaker A:And I don't.
Speaker A:And that's giving too much.
Speaker A:That's giving too much to them.
Speaker A:So I was like, okay.
Speaker A:So we talked about Tiny Dust.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I'm curious.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:We also talked about concerts a little bit and some new releases.
Speaker A:Are there any concerts in particular that you're like, oh, I'm going.
Speaker A:And also, are these prices looking worth it?
Speaker B:Because, listen, I'm one of them people.
Speaker B:I'm sorry.
Speaker B:I didn't mean to jump ahead.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker C:No, that's fine.
Speaker B:I'm willing to floor.
Speaker B:Hey.
Speaker B:Concerts.
Speaker B:I will put on Klarna.
Speaker A:I don't blame you.
Speaker B:I will do it.
Speaker B:I haven't made any plans this year.
Speaker B:I do want to see Kehlani.
Speaker B:I'm not sure where I want to see her yet.
Speaker B:And I'm actually not shocked.
Speaker B:Her prices are not that bad, I think.
Speaker B:I think as you move closer, it gets, like, crazy.
Speaker B:But, yes.
Speaker B:I haven't really looked.
Speaker B:I was like, okay, there's nobody really touring this summer that.
Speaker B:I was just like, no, I Don't want to see Usher and Chris Brown.
Speaker B:I don't know why.
Speaker B:I just don't want.
Speaker B:I don't want to see that.
Speaker A:You're not alone.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm more like.
Speaker B:I'll probably go to, like, a.
Speaker B:Another.
Speaker B:Maybe another festival if I. I want to do Broccoli Fest.
Speaker B:I think that's usually in July, but.
Speaker B:Or, yeah.
Speaker B:Has it happened?
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:Usually it's in July, but I want to do something, like, really, like, random and fun.
Speaker A:No Summer Walker.
Speaker B:No, unheard me.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker B:That was.
Speaker A:She's so funny.
Speaker B:She's a friend that went to go see.
Speaker B:I see.
Speaker B:I thought about it.
Speaker B:I was like, maybe I do.
Speaker B:I did want.
Speaker B:I wanted to see Ari Lennox, but my schedule was not allowing me to, like, do a trip and come back.
Speaker B:I did want to see Jill Scott.
Speaker B:I missed out on that.
Speaker B:Sold all the way out.
Speaker B:And I've never missed.
Speaker B:I've seen Jill Scott probably more than I've seen Beyonce.
Speaker B:So really, like.
Speaker B:Well, it's probably tied.
Speaker B:I'm lying.
Speaker B:It's probably tired, but.
Speaker B:So I'm really upset about that.
Speaker B:But hopefully, you know, she does, like, a.
Speaker B:Another leg of a tour or something.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Did y' all hear about.
Speaker A:Because you Summer Walker stories are going viral for the wrong reason.
Speaker A:Between the fights, some.
Speaker A:Some girl, they.
Speaker A:They was tussling.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:She was like, why y' all tussling in this song?
Speaker B:That's crazy.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I think she even said that she's like, why y' all fighting to this song or something.
Speaker A:She did say she was like, this is a nice song on the.
Speaker A:On the mic.
Speaker A:And then she was like, I'm tired.
Speaker A:Between that and then.
Speaker A:What was the other thing?
Speaker A:Oh, Reese, this past week, the brown water.
Speaker A:Because she, you know, she In a martini glass, and then her water was brown, so I missed that.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:When I tell you they've been calling her everything but a child of God online, talking about your coochie water, and I'm just like.
Speaker A:But literally, if the girls who get to get it, it's like, it's body makeup, clearly.
Speaker A:But somebody should have been thinking about that, like the you as a mark or if you was gonna have brown water, someone.
Speaker A:Someone put on.
Speaker A:On thread or something.
Speaker A:It was like, if you gonna do brown water, like, at least make it a nigga espresso martini with a coffee bean.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm logging off.
Speaker A:And I was like, right.
Speaker B:Good night.
Speaker C:But in the naughty girl video, Beyonce was in a glass, like a champagne glass, and it wasn't brown, so they could have done it.
Speaker C:I feel like there was a way.
Speaker C:Or just don't you do the body makeup on her or something?
Speaker B:How about this?
Speaker B:Take it out the show.
Speaker A:They didn't need the body makeup.
Speaker B:Reason.
Speaker B:It is the reason.
Speaker B:Why is she dancing in the.
Speaker B:Why is she singing in a.
Speaker B:In a brown.
Speaker C:No, she doesn't have any song.
Speaker C:You know how people always go, like, they.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:She can't do all the dances.
Speaker A:So that's a segment where she In a glass and she giving.
Speaker A:And her show, her team is she.
Speaker A:She be and she do movement.
Speaker A:You know, that's what they call it, movement versus dance.
Speaker B:She.
Speaker B:They talk about she needed that.
Speaker B:She was too stiff out there, and she was like, what you want me to do?
Speaker A:After Tiana's support, she's better.
Speaker A:She's so much better to be doing stadiums.
Speaker A:She was in State Farms Arena.
Speaker A:Like, she.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's good for good for her, right?
Speaker C:My friends went to her concert, and they were like that, you know what?
Speaker C:I'm gonna follow Dispute.
Speaker C:That's what they said.
Speaker C:And they love her down.
Speaker C:Like, they're.
Speaker C:They're like huge fans, but they're like, that.
Speaker C:The experience they saw in Chicago, like, that it wasn't worth it, like, going.
Speaker B:Over one of my friends, but he had a blast.
Speaker B:He's just toxic.
Speaker B:So that's why he had a blast.
Speaker A:I love me some Summer Walker.
Speaker A:I'm really.
Speaker C:Did you see when they were waiting for her at the venue and she was like.
Speaker C:Like, yo, sorry, y', all, I'm still doing my makeup.
Speaker A:Apparently hairstyles up her wig.
Speaker A:So she was like, take it off and redo it and have someone else come in.
Speaker A:They was waiting in that audience for a long time.
Speaker B:Damn.
Speaker A:But I do like her opener with Monte Leo is her opener.
Speaker A:I love me some monolio.
Speaker A:I just love her everything that she has going on and.
Speaker A:But I do have a question for y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker A:Apparently, there's a Ticketmaster settlement that just has been reached.
Speaker A:I have a cash in for my.
Speaker A:For my ducats and my coins.
Speaker A:But do you think this is gonna, like, change anything with the dynamic pricing?
Speaker A:We still don't see crazy crazy on Ticketmaster, but I need to look up how much.
Speaker A:Let me do.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:I'm curious.
Speaker C:You're gonna get, like, $10?
Speaker C:I think, like, most likely, yeah.
Speaker C:If it's not a settlement by a local coffee shop in my neighborhood and we're sharing, like, a million dollars that I'm not doing, you keep it.
Speaker C:I Got one a couple of days ago from, like, the health company over here that millions of Minnesotans are on.
Speaker C:I'm like, that, I don't need your settlement money.
Speaker C:It's gonna be like, $5.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The settlement is not that big.
Speaker A:There's no settlement yet.
Speaker A:There has been a decision that Ticketmaster was at fault.
Speaker A:There was a D.C. federal case that they had, and that.
Speaker A:That settlement was just 9.9 million.
Speaker A:That's not a lot for how much we pay, to be honest.
Speaker A:So it's not looking that great.
Speaker A:But a precedent is being said.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:Maybe I just.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I can't.
Speaker A:I do this thing with my friend now where, like, she'll buy some tickets, then I'll buy some tickets to shows, and we just, like, alternate, and then it ends up working out like that.
Speaker A:But I can't be affording to buy all these tickets.
Speaker A:I really.
Speaker A:I just cannot.
Speaker A:It's not.
Speaker B:I can.
Speaker B:That's why I just, like.
Speaker B:I pray about it and put it on corner and just going about my day.
Speaker A:Ryan, you of Christ.
Speaker A:I could tell you said, I'm just gonna pray about it earlier.
Speaker A:You said what?
Speaker A:I won't complain.
Speaker B:Not as much as I am anymore.
Speaker B:I just.
Speaker B:I know my faith.
Speaker B:I know my.
Speaker B:You know, I was a.
Speaker B:A church boy growing up saying lead in the church part.
Speaker B:But anymore, I'm just like, you know, I feel that.
Speaker A:Okay, so it's kind of a messy little segment for us to get into, and I'm excited to hear yalls thoughts.
Speaker A:We've talked about R B.
Speaker A:We talked about black people in R B, Black queers, R B.
Speaker A:You know, in your opinion, is R B like a historically black genre?
Speaker A:And what's your opinion of non black people doing R?
Speaker B:And you, Harry, you already know who I'm going to say.
Speaker A:What you gonna say?
Speaker B:You have the floor.
Speaker B:Our girl Joanna, Jojo Leveque.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Love her.
Speaker A:Love Jojo.
Speaker A:I feel like she know you.
Speaker A:Oh, she should, because you sing her praises clearly all the time.
Speaker B:It's too much.
Speaker B:Maybe it'd be too much, but love.
Speaker A:Jojo when she had a little mixtape, and then I love what she would do when she does an Anita Baker cover.
Speaker B:Girl, can we talk about.
Speaker B:I don't like covers that much.
Speaker A:Y' all don't do a great cover.
Speaker B:She tore that caught up in the rapture cover.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Now turn up that one.
Speaker C:Turn up Marvin's room.
Speaker B:That' why the producer.
Speaker B:That's why he didn't like her.
Speaker B:He ain't like her Houston.
Speaker A:Don't she love a Drake cover?
Speaker A:She really do.
Speaker B:And you know, in her book.
Speaker B:I read her book as well, and she's.
Speaker A:A book.
Speaker B:Yeah, she wrote it's all over the Influence.
Speaker B:It's really, really good.
Speaker B:Oh, it's so good.
Speaker B:She had a.
Speaker B:There was a moment where she was.
Speaker B:She flew to Toronto to work with the producer.
Speaker B:I think something.
Speaker B:One thing that came out of that was Demonstrate, but I think it was going to be like, okay, demonstrate.
Speaker B:I think it was going to be a whole project with Drake's producer and come to find out, he didn't like her.
Speaker B:He was really rude to her.
Speaker B:And I was like, that's probably because he made you.
Speaker B:You ate Drake's song.
Speaker B:Drake was really like, I love it.
Speaker B:You did great.
Speaker B:But producer was really rude to her, allegedly.
Speaker B:And I was disappointed because Demonstrate was fire and I could only imagine what they were going to cook together, you.
Speaker A:Know, need to run it back.
Speaker A:Personally, I feel like I need to.
Speaker C:I love Jojo.
Speaker C:Her music is always like she is.
Speaker C:I've been working with her since, you know, she was 13.
Speaker C:Just get out, Leave.
Speaker B:You know, rocking with me since day one.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:I feel like.
Speaker C:But I also feel like, you know, I'm gonna be controversial again.
Speaker C:You know, I feel like I have liked her up until, like, I. I really enjoyed the music, like, really, really deeply up until Good to Know.
Speaker C:And I think that after Good to Know, like, all the albums were like.
Speaker C:I would listen to the entire project.
Speaker C:Good to Know, Mad Love, the the three EP High Road, self titled.
Speaker C:When we get to what's the name of Trying to think about it.
Speaker C:It was good, but I don't like.
Speaker C:It's not this.
Speaker C:There are some skips on there for me, you know, Try not to think.
Speaker B:About it was is.
Speaker B:Is went diamond in my household.
Speaker B:It's like this all alone deserves a Grammy.
Speaker C:This was a great song.
Speaker B:And the.
Speaker C:Anxiety song is a good song.
Speaker C:But I feel like I had some skips on that album and then the album after that was the album after.
Speaker C:No, no, no.
Speaker C:The album after.
Speaker C:Trying to think about it.
Speaker B:It's ngo her.
Speaker B:Her most latest one.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker B:Now I just I NGL's dope.
Speaker B:You could.
Speaker B:I think what I appreciate about Broadway did something to her voice.
Speaker A:Yes, absolutely.
Speaker B:And she fell in love with music again.
Speaker B:And I think not just me being a stan, but being a student I was listening to even on tour, like her tour, like, she was.
Speaker B:Her voice was fresh.
Speaker B:It was so good.
Speaker B:And I was like, oh, she fell in love with music again.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Being on Broadway got.
Speaker B:Brought something out of her, like hearing all of those songs live.
Speaker B:And Good to Know, like, Good to Know is one of my lonely hearts.
Speaker B:I have the lyrics tatted from her song Lonely Hearts on my arm because that song just means so much to me.
Speaker B:But, like, try not to think about it for somebody that has struggled with depression and mental health.
Speaker B:And I think that's why I probably hold that album very dear to my heart.
Speaker B:And I actually wrote a book, a fiction book based around it.
Speaker B:I haven't talked about it a lot, but a lot of my stories that I write are based around music.
Speaker B:So I always, like, anytime I hear something like, oh, I want to write a story about this, but try not to think what I. I think what I love for.
Speaker B:For me, like, I love hearing why she had to put that album out, what it was about, and that vip, like, I don't know where I had.
Speaker B:I probably don't have it anymore.
Speaker B:I think I.
Speaker B:Because it was so negative.
Speaker B:But she gave out journals for VIP during that.
Speaker B:Try not to think about a tour.
Speaker B:And it had.
Speaker B:Try not to think about it on it.
Speaker B:And I literally.
Speaker B:I wrote in it till probably up until last year.
Speaker B:And I was like, it's really negative.
Speaker B:I have to burn this.
Speaker B:I don't think I burned it, though.
Speaker B:But it's somewhere tucked away.
Speaker B:But yeah, those two.
Speaker B:She.
Speaker B:She.
Speaker B:That's my girl.
Speaker A:I love her.
Speaker C:We love her.
Speaker A:There's something.
Speaker B:I want her to have a folded moment.
Speaker B:I want her to have a moment where a song like I thought Ready to Love.
Speaker B:Ready to Love is so good.
Speaker B:And it could have took her, I think, if she.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I don't know that she's doing things her own.
Speaker B:I know she's independent, but I think she.
Speaker B:If she'd have pushed that a little bit more, we could have had a moment.
Speaker B:But she'll get it.
Speaker B:She got her.
Speaker B:Her real friends be there.
Speaker C:You know how.
Speaker C:Most recently, her most recent song that I really loved was her collaboration with Craig David ran.
Speaker C:That was cute.
Speaker B:It was cute.
Speaker C:You love Craig David, but I do love Craig David.
Speaker C:But like, like everybody else, it's after Slicker than your average Everything after Everything after that, you know, I was like, but this is latest project.
Speaker C:That song with JoJo, I thought it was really.
Speaker C:I thought it was really good as well.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:I do like JoJo's PJ Morton collabs especially.
Speaker B:Say so Phenomenal.
Speaker B:Say so My piece.
Speaker B:Amazing.
Speaker A:They have great chemistry together.
Speaker B:I'm Waiting for them to do a duo.
Speaker B:Like, they need to do a collab album.
Speaker B:I'm waiting on that.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:He popped up at her show in Atlanta.
Speaker B:I was there.
Speaker B:I was like, he lives there, right?
Speaker A:He lives in Atlanta.
Speaker B:He lives.
Speaker B:He lives in Atlanta, I think.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:I almost had to Florida.
Speaker B:I love say so.
Speaker B:She's saying her face off.
Speaker A:Singing her face off, literally.
Speaker A:Yeah, that voice sounds just as good as it always had.
Speaker A:Like, it just sounds.
Speaker B:Broadway did something because she sounds even, like, dissolved live.
Speaker B:I was in.
Speaker B:I was sitting there like, yeah, I was.
Speaker B:Yeah, she.
Speaker B:I'll be in a trance when I see her live.
Speaker B:That's my girl.
Speaker C:Shout out to Jojo.
Speaker A:Shout out to Joe.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But I feel like community wise, we've accepted Jojo because I think one thing I love about Jojo, that I think what separates her from other non black, like, artists in R B is that her love and her devotion to R B is seen not just with her commercial success, but when, like, her smaller projects, her EPs, her collaborations.
Speaker A:Also her, like, giving reverence and, like, praise to icons like Anita Baker and Mary J. Blige.
Speaker B:And she respects.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:She's paid her dues and she's been working in this field for.
Speaker A:And she's been doing R B consistently.
Speaker A:I feel like there was there.
Speaker A:Her, like, most recent album, like, ventured more into pop.
Speaker A:Like, she has leaned a bit more.
Speaker A:But Jojo, I feel like she gets a pass because she's done the work and she's been very much like, at the.
Speaker A:Just at the feet of R B.
Speaker A:So I'm like, okay, I give her a pass.
Speaker A:How do y' all feel about Sasha Keeble?
Speaker B:I like Sasha.
Speaker B:I do.
Speaker A:I do too.
Speaker A:And I hate it.
Speaker A:I hate that.
Speaker A:I like Sasha,.
Speaker B:But she's brown.
Speaker C:She's not like.
Speaker C:She's not like, white.
Speaker C:White, Right?
Speaker A:But she's white.
Speaker A:Passing.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:But she's like.
Speaker C:She's like.
Speaker C:She's like bipoc.
Speaker A:She is.
Speaker A:She's bipoc, but she's not black.
Speaker A:But I think I also.
Speaker A:I think what bothers people, and I'm curious what y' all think is that it's one thing missing R B.
Speaker A:It's another thing to present yourself in the way that is marketable to black people.
Speaker B:And it's like, yes, the nails and the hair, like, and the gold and.
Speaker A:The tattoos and the.
Speaker A:The way she.
Speaker A:The saggy stuff and the wife beaters.
Speaker A:And I'm curious.
Speaker B:Give me, like, give her, like, two more eras and she's gonna tone down.
Speaker B:She's gonna do the.
Speaker B:Yeah, she's.
Speaker B:I think I could be wrong.
Speaker C:They always go.
Speaker C:They always do that.
Speaker C:I feel like, what's his face?
Speaker C:The guy.
Speaker C:But he's young.
Speaker C:He was on Beyonce's album.
Speaker A:James Blake.
Speaker C:No, he was like, harder.
Speaker B:Him.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I like him.
Speaker A:I. I feel like Postman feels a little different because.
Speaker A:Have y' all listened to Sasha's first album?
Speaker A:Like, her first project that she ever put out?
Speaker A:You would look at the COVID of her and be like, this is not Sasha Keeble.
Speaker A:You'll be like, this is a white girl.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:Like, just.
Speaker A:But it's a good album.
Speaker A:It's still R B.
Speaker A:It's more jazzy, but it's very different from where she is now.
Speaker A:But it's good.
Speaker A:I like the first project.
Speaker A:Let me pull it up for y' all to see.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That's why people are struggling just a little bit.
Speaker C:I'm seeing a magazine article.
Speaker C:This is a white girl.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:This was five years ago.
Speaker C:She was blonde and everything.
Speaker B:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker B:Look at her.
Speaker B:I told you.
Speaker A:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker A:It's like, if it's a departure, for sure.
Speaker A:And she doesn't sound, like, audibly the same.
Speaker A:Like, she still had her.
Speaker A:Her.
Speaker A:Like, her.
Speaker A:It's more rasp.
Speaker A:There's more, like, grit to her current music versus Then it was definitely a bit more polished.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:So, okay.
Speaker C:I didn't think she's bipoc then.
Speaker B:She was born to a British father and Colombian mother.
Speaker C:English for either.
Speaker C:Colombian mother, yes.
Speaker C:So she's biracial.
Speaker C:She's biracial.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:You remember that?
Speaker A:That went triple platinum in my house.
Speaker C:I already had an album that was about all the people.
Speaker C:He had one about, like, the black people.
Speaker A:Literally.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:She did a revamp for sure.
Speaker A:And I don't even think red is her natural hair color.
Speaker B:No, she's a blonde, but I like.
Speaker B:I like the red.
Speaker B:But I love the blonde too.
Speaker B:She's pretty.
Speaker A:She is pretty.
Speaker A:She's gorgeous.
Speaker A:And her music is good.
Speaker A:Like, I. I can't say that I hate the music.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:Her ep.
Speaker A:There's no skips on the EP at all.
Speaker C:She really is.
Speaker C:She's fully.
Speaker C:Her father is Lebanese, her mom is Colombian, so she's not white at all.
Speaker B:Interesting.
Speaker A:Interesting.
Speaker C:You know, but the white jeans and those people are strong in her body.
Speaker A:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:White passing for sure.
Speaker A:And it's like, I. I think I feel a little different about her compared to sailor.
Speaker A:Y' all know sailor.
Speaker C:I like sailor.
Speaker B:Listen Coconut.
Speaker A:Coconut.
Speaker B:Oh, thank you so much, somebody.
Speaker B:I was hosting Pride, and I was on the main stage, and the DJ started playing the instrumental, and I just put a little, like, something about that beat.
Speaker B:And it's actually, I've been using the instrumental to promote my live podcast event that I have coming up here in Pittsburgh.
Speaker B:And I'm like, I just love that beat.
Speaker B:It just every once in a while, there's a song where I run to the ground.
Speaker B:Run it through the ground.
Speaker B:And sailor, I'm sorry I fucks with it.
Speaker B:I haven't listened.
Speaker B:I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker B:I haven't.
Speaker B:I've heard another song rent free, and every time, I'd be like, okay, Ryan, you need to go listen to.
Speaker B:I want to go listen to her full project.
Speaker A:But I would say that she does.
Speaker A:Her projects are pretty solid.
Speaker A:And funny enough, I actually used the instrumental of Coconut the other day for a chosen Kim post, and I was like, it's cute and it's kind of fitting giving that we're talking about this.
Speaker B:I love it.
Speaker A:It's so good.
Speaker B:In the little viral moment,.
Speaker A:I understand what people are like, oh, but the profiting off of blackness when it's convenient, like, because Pookie's requiem, they was like, pookie.
Speaker A:You were saying.
Speaker A:Pookie, listen.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You were saying on the day I had the people from them.
Speaker A:No, she's from Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker B:Florida.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I do know that.
Speaker C:My apologies.
Speaker B:I feel like.
Speaker B:My friend told me.
Speaker B:He says.
Speaker B:He's like, I've seen her, knew who she was before she.
Speaker A:You know, like, how dare you talk about you.
Speaker A:Why did you just.
Speaker A:Is it cuz she's Asian that she was like, has to be from the bay, and she got a little spice?
Speaker C:Well, you know what I mean.
Speaker A:I know what you mean.
Speaker C:It's the.
Speaker C:It's the.
Speaker C:They are at the bay, and they are the ones that always get talked about in.
Speaker C:About, you know, black culture and, you know, you all know better than, you know.
Speaker C:I just got here.
Speaker C:But, like, they always go, oh, you know, I grew up with the black people.
Speaker C:This is how we speak.
Speaker C:This is how Aquafina and the like.
Speaker C:So I'm just like, maybe, you know, that's what you want.
Speaker A:I think that'd be my problem is, like, you can't.
Speaker A:It's hard to tell between the Aquafinas and the Sailors, you know, like, Awkwafina has been caught up in a lot of.
Speaker A:I don't have her full rap sheet in front of me, but people have made accusations of anti blackness against her and having a black scent and all of that and rebranding to be more marketable.
Speaker A:So it's like, you know, Aquafina.
Speaker A:A little different.
Speaker A:Sailor I gotta watch.
Speaker A:I gotta keep my eye on Sailor for a little while.
Speaker A:I do like the music, but there is a line.
Speaker B:There was an artist I like.
Speaker B:I. I was listening to a couple.
Speaker B:Her song called her turning.
Speaker B:Her name was Dewey.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Thuhi was fire.
Speaker B:Like, I think her music, she got new.
Speaker B:Like, if she sounds a little bit different, like, it's not.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I think Vietnamese, Filipino, something like that.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay, Harry.
Speaker A:But I do like her.
Speaker A:She had.
Speaker A:She's very niche.
Speaker A:I went to a music festival.
Speaker A:I went to Soul Bloom.
Speaker A:Soul Bloom.
Speaker A:Beautiful festival.
Speaker A:It's in Sacramento.
Speaker A:The weather's so nice.
Speaker A:You can.
Speaker A:They got the legal.
Speaker A:So I was having a time, but.
Speaker B:We're having a good time.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:It was like Pilo three.
Speaker A:All these different, like, very niche Asians.
Speaker A:I said said three.
Speaker B:I think that's probably right.
Speaker B:I said Thuy.
Speaker B:I'm so sorry.
Speaker A:I say.
Speaker A:I said tui as well, until I heard her pronounce it.
Speaker A:And I was like, yes.
Speaker A:It was like a mix of twee.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Remember the lollipop commercial?
Speaker B:One, two, three.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Yes, that.
Speaker A:Honestly, I love that you're here, right?
Speaker A:Because that's literally how me and Harry be thinking.
Speaker A:It'd be like, we said a word and then we have to sing the song.
Speaker B:I'm a stem down, like, for real.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:One of the.
Speaker B:One day I was like, oh, my God.
Speaker B:When my best friend.
Speaker B:She's Jamaican.
Speaker B:And I went.
Speaker B:She took me into one of her.
Speaker B:A friend's store, and she started, you know, speaking in patois.
Speaker B:And I was like, something they said.
Speaker B:And I was in my mind, like, constellation woman.
Speaker B:Like, call her back.
Speaker B:She could try today.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I be like.
Speaker B:She was like, oh, we were starting with the girl.
Speaker B:I was like, oh, she'll be.
Speaker B:She'll be so mad at me.
Speaker B:So sorry me.
Speaker A:Y' all are not right.
Speaker A:Based on what y' all are saying, it sounds like y' all may have the same opinion about this artist, but.
Speaker A:Yeah, but I love yabba down her.
Speaker B:I was very disappointed with her most recent album.
Speaker C:And she's gone back full white.
Speaker C:She's gone back very.
Speaker B:And I'm very like, when I tell.
Speaker A:You Waterfall really Caucasian with some spice because she got them nails and she got a nice little rap, a little blowout.
Speaker B:I was shocked.
Speaker B:I was like, she didn't Dr. That way.
Speaker B:And then just went, yeah.
Speaker B:Acoustic on us Starbuck vibes.
Speaker A:I love the first album.
Speaker A:The first album I was sliding down.
Speaker A:That was my grief album for sure.
Speaker A:The tiny desk.
Speaker A:That's all I would listen to now.
Speaker B:When she dropped.
Speaker B:When Drake forced her to drop her version of the waterfall.
Speaker B:I adore you.
Speaker B:That song came out when I. I got my heart broken and I used to just.
Speaker B:God.
Speaker B:And I thought the album was going to mirror that sound.
Speaker B:And so when I listened to it, I was like, oh, I don't even think I made it through the whole album.
Speaker B:I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker A:I don't think I did either.
Speaker A:And I hate that because I love the first album so much.
Speaker B:When she first dropped on the scene, my mind I was like that run.
Speaker A:The infamous run.
Speaker A:The infamous run.
Speaker C:I have a little curiosity.
Speaker C:Just.
Speaker C:Just a quick one from.
Speaker C:I'm curious about to hear y'.
Speaker C:All Yalls thought about this.
Speaker C:Ryan talked about heartbreak and listening to an album.
Speaker C:What are your.
Speaker C:What are yours go to?
Speaker C:Like heartbreak breakup songs.
Speaker C:Black Music month.
Speaker C:Well, what are the songs that.
Speaker C:When you're like, you pull up like.
Speaker B:You listen to when you're sad?
Speaker B:Like when I need to.
Speaker B:Like, so I'm a very.
Speaker B:Like sometimes I'm one of those people like, okay, Ryan, you.
Speaker B:You need to.
Speaker B:I force emotions out because I don't like to hold on to things.
Speaker B:I hate being angry and I hate holding on to it.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And it's again, Logan, you're gonna be like, oh, you a church.
Speaker B:You church.
Speaker B:I am a church boy.
Speaker B:I have my.
Speaker B:My music.
Speaker B:My Sunday playlist.
Speaker B:It's actually called God's favorite and it's a kid picture of me in a suit.
Speaker B:I did the little playlist.
Speaker C:We gotta get your playlist.
Speaker A:That's so cute.
Speaker B:Yes, it's someone.
Speaker B:I need to get it out.
Speaker B:Like gospel wise.
Speaker B:Like Yolanda Adams opened my heart soon as soon as I hear alone in a room, I'm like crying.
Speaker B:I'll be like, oh, my God.
Speaker C:That's gonna be to talk to you.
Speaker B:So what if I choose.
Speaker C:She was eating.
Speaker B:Oh, we don't own the rights to this.
Speaker B:I'm sorry.
Speaker C:But yeah, we don't.
Speaker C:We don't own the rights.
Speaker C:But she ate Got chills.
Speaker B:That's my.
Speaker B:One of my favorite songs.
Speaker B:When I'm yearning, yearning.
Speaker B:And she love us too.
Speaker B:She loved the lgbt.
Speaker B:She love us.
Speaker B:So she'll get all the spins and streams from me when I'm yearning.
Speaker B:Like when I just put that on everything by Brandy.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:That's my.
Speaker A:But it's not.
Speaker C:Is that.
Speaker C:Is that a harp break song?
Speaker B:It's that.
Speaker B:That's why I say when I'm yearning, I'm like, I want love.
Speaker B:Like, when I'm just, like, I'm feeling heartbroken, but I just.
Speaker B:I'm like, that's one of.
Speaker B:That's a song I turn on when I'm just like, yes.
Speaker A:Oh, that's a good one, Ryan.
Speaker C:That's a good one.
Speaker C:Song is calling out to you.
Speaker A:You know, I'm.
Speaker A:I'm scrolling through if I'm really down bad.
Speaker A:There's this.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:I am a Toni Braxton fan.
Speaker A:I just am.
Speaker A:I just am.
Speaker A:And I think it's just because the Anita Baker to Toni Braxton pipeline was for me.
Speaker A:It was for me.
Speaker A:But I love this particular version that she has of how could an angel break my heart with Kenny G and Babyface and her and Babyface go back and forth.
Speaker A:There's many versions, but this one particularly, like, he responds to all the quest.
Speaker A:Like, the questions that she says, oh, it just takes me.
Speaker B:I don't think I've ever heard that one.
Speaker A:It's so.
Speaker A:Feels so good.
Speaker A:It's been.
Speaker B:It's sad.
Speaker B:Watch.
Speaker B:She said that was Tracy's favorite song.
Speaker B:And I was watching clips of her singing that, and she can't even get through it.
Speaker B:And so I'll be like, what do you say?
Speaker A:I was like, I did not know that.
Speaker A:That ends I never dream you leave in summer by Stevie Wonder.
Speaker A:Oh, that.
Speaker A:And I got that from Poetic justice when she was.
Speaker A:You know, that's a sad movie in the beginning, but those two will take me and crazy the sky.
Speaker A:Craze in the sky Craze in the sky If I don't know what to do that ends Peace of Mind by Lauryn Hill.
Speaker A:Gotta find a peace of mind.
Speaker B:Oh, I will sit there with a. I try to.
Speaker A:Oh, yes.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Craziness, guys.
Speaker B:Like, it is a very revolutionary.
Speaker B:Oh, my God, that song is beautiful.
Speaker B:It's amazing.
Speaker A:I try to drink it away I try to smoke it away I try to dance it away.
Speaker A:Oh, and honestly, when I'm deep in my sadness, I do try to drink it away.
Speaker A:I follow that.
Speaker A:I follow the list.
Speaker A:And then I'd be like, nothing works.
Speaker B:Yeah, slow down.
Speaker B:That'd be me.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker A:Harry, what about you?
Speaker C:I have a. I have a couple up tops over my head.
Speaker C:I'll just name four.
Speaker C:I'm scared now that she's gone.
Speaker C:Cindy's Child from the writings the writers of the World.
Speaker C:I feel like if you break my heart, I sing that song in anticipation that when you go, you want to.
Speaker B:Come back way too long.
Speaker A:That's a very tourist thing.
Speaker C:I'm gone.
Speaker C:So that's my song.
Speaker B:See you at the movie.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker C:You know, then there is Aliyah.
Speaker C:The one I gave my heart to.
Speaker C:Oh, how could.
Speaker C:The one I gave my heart to.
Speaker C:That's my jam.
Speaker C:That's my jam.
Speaker A:You be crying, Harry.
Speaker C:See, I be in my feelings.
Speaker C:I be in my feelings.
Speaker C:Then there is missing you by case.
Speaker B:I'm missing you because you know me.
Speaker C:I like to, I like to.
Speaker C:My, my, my, my, my.
Speaker C:I won't call you grief.
Speaker C:You know, when you break up with someone, you go through the faces where I hate you.
Speaker C:You're gonna want to come back.
Speaker C:How dare you do this to me?
Speaker C:But then I miss you.
Speaker C:You know, I'm staring out, looking out the window, and I realize I miss you.
Speaker C:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And so a single parent with a cup of coffee at that window.
Speaker A:Just like everyone had that moment.
Speaker C:What was the one more you had?
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker B:I'm sorry.
Speaker B:I have one more.
Speaker B:Is he talking about Miss you?
Speaker B:I miss you by Beyonce wrote the out of that.
Speaker B:I thought that things get better.
Speaker B:Oh, I thought that.
Speaker A:You know what reminds me of that rhythmic, like rhythm wise?
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:Oh, that I also like.
Speaker A:It's this song by Sir John Redcorn.
Speaker A:Well, that man was sad.
Speaker A:John Born by Sir.
Speaker C:I haven't heard that one.
Speaker B:I don't think I've heard that.
Speaker A:Serious.
Speaker C:Well, you're putting us on today.
Speaker A:What was the other one?
Speaker A:I will send it to you.
Speaker C:My last one is a dipka.
Speaker C:It's from TLC from the fan mail album.
Speaker C:It's called I miss I miss you so much.
Speaker C:Beautiful song.
Speaker C:I feel like all the songs about missing people, you know, I'm a romantic, so those are like my heartbreak go to.
Speaker C:So if I want to, like feel the emotions, you know, I play those songs all the way.
Speaker A:Wow, you are a millennial.
Speaker C:You are true.
Speaker B:A lot of the songs like I'll be like.
Speaker B:Are they heartbreak songs?
Speaker B:Because I be like, I think because I'm a yearner and I'd be like.
Speaker B:And it breaks my heart because I'm not in love.
Speaker B:That's how I love Yearners.
Speaker B:Because, like, have you ever.
Speaker B:Have you ever by Brandy.
Speaker C:Like, that's a yearning song.
Speaker B:That's a yearning song.
Speaker B:So I can't even like.
Speaker B:And it was such a pleasure hearing her mature voice sing that at the boys I was in tears.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker A:I need to watch a clip.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:She hit that at the end.
Speaker B:I was like, everything.
Speaker C:I gotta say, I wrote.
Speaker C:Any leaks through that hair makes you.
Speaker B:Wanna break down the cry,.
Speaker A:Harry.
Speaker C:I do.
Speaker C:I do love.
Speaker C:Have you ever.
Speaker C:That's a really good song.
Speaker C:That's a beautiful song.
Speaker A:So good.
Speaker A:It's so good.
Speaker C:That's a Black Music Month.
Speaker C:Black Music Month.
Speaker C:We should do more Black m. Music Month conversations.
Speaker C:It really is.
Speaker B:I'm down.
Speaker B:Look, I come back.
Speaker B:I'll come back.
Speaker A:Please.
Speaker A:We would love that.
Speaker A:Our chosen kin.
Speaker A:I really enjoyed this.
Speaker A:I really did.
Speaker A:I feel like I know we got a little bit to the crux of, like, the non black thing.
Speaker A:I feel like, like, we should.
Speaker A:We gotta let people simmer.
Speaker A:We do gotta let people simmer.
Speaker A:So we go.
Speaker A:We gonna keep watch.
Speaker A:Me, I'll keep watch for everybody because I'm.
Speaker A:I'm keeping tabs.
Speaker A:But I do think we need to keep more music in, like, the rotation of chosen kin.
Speaker A:Like, it's just.
Speaker A:It's us.
Speaker A:It's us.
Speaker A:We just gotta.
Speaker A:We end up talking about music every week.
Speaker A:So now let's get into Ken lessons and essentially kin lessons.
Speaker A:Sometimes it's about the episode and will be like kind of reflections from the episode.
Speaker A:And sometimes it's really just, you know, kin lessons that we want to share with the audience.
Speaker A:So this week, since it's Pride season, what are your pride do's and don'ts?
Speaker A:Give one do and give one don't, and it can be whatever you want.
Speaker C:You can go, Ryan.
Speaker B:I say pride, dude.
Speaker B:Go with your friends.
Speaker B:Don't like, if you're going to pride to be a touche.
Speaker B:Everybody has their fun.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:No discrimination.
Speaker B:I'm pro sex.
Speaker B:Pro who, pro all of that.
Speaker B:But it's so much more than just like, ooh, where the niggas?
Speaker B:You know, like, where are the niggas?
Speaker B:I feel like it's about community.
Speaker B:It's about, like, so go with your friends.
Speaker B:Don't go in there looking for, like, you think you just gonna hook up, like, if it happens.
Speaker B:Cool.
Speaker B:I love that for you.
Speaker B:But like, I'm.
Speaker B:I love.
Speaker B:I had a very unexpected, excellent weekend for Pittsburgh Pride.
Speaker B:I was just like, oh, I'm gonna host.
Speaker B:I'll go to an event.
Speaker B:That's really it.
Speaker B:But one of my friends and one of the performers, we just.
Speaker B:We hung out and we had a blast that Saturday and Sunday and stayed out late Sunday night.
Speaker B:I was like, it's a school night work, right?
Speaker B:That's my I say go.
Speaker B:Go for the community.
Speaker B:Go for the right.
Speaker B:Go have fun.
Speaker B:Don't go into it with.
Speaker B:Not, like, you know, like, sex is cool, sex is great, but, like, it's a moment for us to be liberated.
Speaker B:I don't even know if we're gonna have another pride.
Speaker B:For real.
Speaker B:Like, the way things are going, it's.
Speaker B:It's not giving.
Speaker A:It's not giving pride.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:What are your Don't.
Speaker C:What's your don't?
Speaker B:Mine.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So you'll do us.
Speaker C:Go with your friends.
Speaker C:So what?
Speaker B:Yeah, don't.
Speaker B:My don't is don't go into it looking for sex.
Speaker C:Okay?
Speaker B:That's my don't.
Speaker B:Like, I mean, sex is great, and I feel like that's very, like, controversial, but, I don't know.
Speaker B:It's a giver.
Speaker B:It's a.
Speaker B:It's to each his own.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like, go.
Speaker B:Don't go into it looking for, like, sir.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:Like, just don't go into looking.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:That's just me.
Speaker B:Like, go for the fun.
Speaker B:Go on.
Speaker C:Go on.
Speaker C:Find community.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:What about you, Harry?
Speaker C:Pride dues.
Speaker C:Send money to your.
Speaker C:Send money to your queer friends.
Speaker C:Don't just tell me, happy ride.
Speaker C:Don't Happy Friday me to death.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker B:Rainbow.
Speaker B:I hate.
Speaker C:Yeah, don't give me any rainbow.
Speaker C:Don't said don't Happy pride me to death.
Speaker C:Send me money because the economy is bad and times are hard.
Speaker C:The social, economic, political framework that we exist in as humans.
Speaker A:Just say you need Drake money.
Speaker A:Please.
Speaker C:I need money.
Speaker C:So please.
Speaker C:So, yeah, support your.
Speaker C:Support Black queer stuff.
Speaker C:Support, like, black queer businesses, black queer artists, black queer creatives, you know, hello.
Speaker C:Really show love to the queer folks around you during Pride.
Speaker C:That's like a pride.
Speaker C:Do pride.
Speaker C:Don't.
Speaker C:Your straight girlfriends can stay at home.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Because I feel like what happens is the straight girlfriends always want to bring their straight boyfriends, and then the straight boyfriends are in the space and are mean mugging, and they're like, you know, And I'm just like, I think y' all can stay home, come back to the bar in December or something, you.
Speaker A:Know, Cosplaying as gay as.
Speaker A:Well, they do be cosplaying as gay for the weekend.
Speaker A:They said, ooh, it's pride.
Speaker A:I can get my snatch a.
Speaker A:No, girl, you cannot.
Speaker C:And then.
Speaker C:Okay, I'm gonna get dragged for this.
Speaker C:I'm gonna get dragged for this.
Speaker A:Maybe I love a spicy hairy opinion.
Speaker A:Go ahead.
Speaker C:Maybe I should just say, but, like, I feel like, no, don't do.
Speaker A:I hate.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:I feel like there.
Speaker C:There's a subset of people who remember they are bisexual only on Pride weekend.
Speaker C:And I'll leave it at that.
Speaker C:I feel like it happens all the time.
Speaker C:They remember their best job only on Pride weekend.
Speaker C:And I'm pro bi.
Speaker C:I'm pro bisexuality.
Speaker C:Like, I love bi people all the way.
Speaker C:I love my bisexuals, I love my pansexuals.
Speaker C:But I think that.
Speaker C:I think we know what we're talking about.
Speaker C:I feel like I don't need to.
Speaker C:I don't want to over explain, so I don't explain myself.
Speaker C:But the people who are only bi on Pride weekend and they do that to being close.
Speaker C:Put me in the space.
Speaker C:I'm sorry.
Speaker C:Yeah, don't cancel me, y'.
Speaker C:All.
Speaker C:Maybe I'll take this off.
Speaker C:I'm editing it.
Speaker A:No, no, because it's.
Speaker A:No, it's real.
Speaker A:Like, you can't.
Speaker A:People like to be.
Speaker A:There are.
Speaker A:There are a certain set of bisexual people or pan folks that feel most comfortable when it's pride and celebratory.
Speaker A:But you can't just be, you know who you are when it's for your right.
Speaker A:You can't just be who you are for your pride.
Speaker A:When it's pride.
Speaker A:You Right.
Speaker B:You brought up a very interesting point.
Speaker B:Because I have bisexual friends and I'm always, like, curious and they can't really give me a straight answer.
Speaker B:I love a pun ding, but, you know, I don't know if you guys, like, remember, but there was supposed Issa Rae was going to produce a show called him or Her.
Speaker B:And it was from a point of view.
Speaker B:The main character was supposed to be openly bisexual black.
Speaker B:A black bisexual man openly bisexual.
Speaker B:And how he's navigating his bisexuality.
Speaker B:And Jared storyline was kind of like the back door pilot.
Speaker B:I don't think he was going to be the star of the show.
Speaker A:But I remember this.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I was like, oh, my God.
Speaker B:The controversy that would have, like the.
Speaker B:The conversation that would have came from that show.
Speaker A:Because the conversation from him and Molly alone was like.
Speaker B:Was a dissertation.
Speaker B:Like, it still comes up.
Speaker C:That was homophobia, though.
Speaker C:That was homophobia.
Speaker B:That was very much like, oh, girls, yeah, yeah, you can have your phone, but he can't get his dick sucking.
Speaker B:Not be like, oh, I don't.
Speaker C:That was phobia.
Speaker C:Biphobia.
Speaker C:All the phobias.
Speaker C:All the phobias that was older phobias.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker B:That's so real.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:My do.
Speaker A:I would say do hydrate for all of my antidepressant baddies.
Speaker A:My SSRI baddies.
Speaker A:I'm here.
Speaker A:I'm representation.
Speaker A:We need to drink water.
Speaker A:It's hot.
Speaker A:The sun is.
Speaker A:We need to drink water.
Speaker A:We need to stay in the shade.
Speaker A:If you need a little fan, there's no shame in being a fan.
Speaker A:Having a fan.
Speaker A:Fan.
Speaker A:You're not too.
Speaker A:You're not too young for a fan.
Speaker A:I had definitely had a dike tell me that I was too young to have you holding a fan.
Speaker A:Excuse me.
Speaker A:My Prozac is pro Zacking.
Speaker A:Excuse me.
Speaker A:Don't.
Speaker A:How dare you?
Speaker B:Yeah, my.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:And they got a lot of them on Tick Tock Shop.
Speaker A:I know you girls know where that is.
Speaker A:My.
Speaker A:Don't just support queer, trans, gender, non conforming folks when it's pride.
Speaker A:You know, don't be like, these corporations.
Speaker A:We don't want the rainbow during June and be like, oh, enough for y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker A:Like, no.
Speaker A:All year is pride.
Speaker A:We should be celebrating black, queer, trans people every single day of the year and be protecting each other.
Speaker A:So that's my.
Speaker A:That's my.
Speaker A:Don't.
Speaker A:Don't let it stop at June 30th.
Speaker A:That's the last day.
Speaker C:That's the last official day.
Speaker A:That's the last official day.
Speaker C:You know, Atlanta, y' all are in pride season all year round.
Speaker A:We are.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker C:Prior all the way.
Speaker B:And I almost moved to Atlanta.
Speaker C:I'm sure 4th of July.
Speaker C:You'll have a pride for 4th of July.
Speaker C:It's something.
Speaker C:Pride.
Speaker C:There's a pride to MLK weekend.
Speaker C:It's a pride Labor Day weekend.
Speaker C:It's a. Y' all are just priding it away.
Speaker A:Anytime there's a long three day weekend, obey pride, period.
Speaker A:Let me tell you something.
Speaker A:MLK died for these pride sins.
Speaker B:Okay?
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But I digress.
Speaker A:Charge it to my head, not my heart.
Speaker A:So this has been a great episode despite all of the technical issues.
Speaker A:Big shout out to Ryan.
Speaker A:Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker A:Can you give folks.
Speaker A:Of course.
Speaker A:Can you give folks, like, where to find you, where to find out about local pride events, all the things.
Speaker B:Yes, you can find me.
Speaker B:My personal Instagram is at rated Ryan.
Speaker B:R A T E D R I A N. That's on all social media platforms, TikTok, Twitter threads, Instagram, my podcast, the Ryan Out Loud podcast.
Speaker B:You can find me on Instagram @theryanoutloudpodcast.
Speaker B:Episodes are coming.
Speaker B:Nothing new right now, but episodes will be coming in the but mind you podcast.
Speaker B:You can listen to the first three or four episodes.
Speaker B:We're gonna drop one more, and then we'll be back in the fall.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's really.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:If you're in Pittsburgh, hit me up.
Speaker B:You know, you're curious, come out.
Speaker B:Take me to all the boring gay spots here, you know?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:People don't want to find you.
Speaker A:Hopefully we see you in Atlanta, and if not, we'll definitely try our Link store.
Speaker B:You said you might.
Speaker B:I'm really.
Speaker B:Yeah, right.
Speaker A:Please, you gotta let us know.
Speaker C:A great time.
Speaker A:Any last words, Harry, from you.
Speaker C:It's just been a great.
Speaker C:It's been a great episode.
Speaker C:Thank you, Ryan, for coming through.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Happy Pride, y'.
Speaker C:All.
Speaker A:Happy Pride.
