1
00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:06,800
Speaker 1: Cools Media. All right, first things first.

2
00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:12,160
Speaker 2: Next week is the Inling the Beautiful Inlings live performance

3
00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,360
Speaker 2: October twenty second at the Allegian Theater.

4
00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,200
Speaker 1: I would really love to see you guys.

5
00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:23,079
Speaker 2: Are still you know, good amount of tickets left, so

6
00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,680
Speaker 2: please purchase that at prop hip hop dot com or

7
00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,600
Speaker 2: you can, you know, google Allegian Theater, frogdown, you know,

8
00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,879
Speaker 2: or Allegiant Theater, Los Angeles and it'll show you.

9
00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:35,400
Speaker 1: Where it is.

10
00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,680
Speaker 2: You click the show and yeah, man, see y'all there,

11
00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,040
Speaker 2: it's gonna be new straight line.

12
00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,400
Speaker 1: All right, talk about some black ny quests.

13
00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,159
Speaker 2: Please tell me what's the distance? Did you ever have

14
00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,480
Speaker 2: to throw out the map? Did you lose.

15
00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,400
Speaker 1: Signal or time or two? The mini derailments?

16
00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:56,040
Speaker 2: Was it fun?

17
00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:56,920
Speaker 1: Was it scary?

18
00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,240
Speaker 2: Please tell me what's the distance? Did you even know

19
00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,960
Speaker 2: when you started that this was a lane? Is there

20
00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,160
Speaker 2: anything even that's called a lane? What's the first step?

21
00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:08,679
Speaker 1: Do you remember?

22
00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:08,800
Speaker 2: What?

23
00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:09,479
Speaker 1: Does it matter?

24
00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,680
Speaker 2: Because there was a time in the you know, late

25
00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:21,240
Speaker 2: fifties and the sixties where unapologetically black music, black culture,

26
00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,280
Speaker 2: black vibe, black.

27
00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:28,520
Speaker 1: Aesthetic was forefront and center.

28
00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,240
Speaker 2: You know, you have people like Nina Simone and you know,

29
00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,840
Speaker 2: James Brown, say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.

30
00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,800
Speaker 2: You know, even Aretha Franklin, even though she was you know,

31
00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,720
Speaker 2: becoming more of a og around this time.

32
00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,720
Speaker 1: This was black music for black people. And when you just.

33
00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:53,480
Speaker 2: Let black be black, the culture follows. And who wasn't

34
00:01:53,840 --> 00:02:00,320
Speaker 2: affected by James Brown? Who wasn't inspired by the music,

35
00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,080
Speaker 2: the culture, the style, the afros, the leathers, the.

36
00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:07,720
Speaker 1: Jackets, the slang.

37
00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:14,200
Speaker 2: It's when you let black be black, It's like America

38
00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:19,240
Speaker 2: is just better for it. And then of course, you know,

39
00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,440
Speaker 2: the empire strikes back and pop music becomes pop music,

40
00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,280
Speaker 2: and you move into you know, the later times where

41
00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,840
Speaker 2: you know, disco, while created by black people, by in large,

42
00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,400
Speaker 2: that wasn't a black genre per se. You know, it

43
00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,280
Speaker 2: was black music, but it wasn't for black people. Follow me,

44
00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,400
Speaker 2: you know. Then you move into the era of the

45
00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,160
Speaker 2: eighties and the birth of the boy band, you know,

46
00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,160
Speaker 2: which obviously has its origins and like temptations for tops,

47
00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,560
Speaker 2: but the boy bands that we know of the source

48
00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:57,400
Speaker 2: material is new addition, you know, Bobby Brown, and you

49
00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,800
Speaker 2: could even ask new kids on the block who the

50
00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,640
Speaker 2: heights would say is the origin of the boy band?

51
00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:05,560
Speaker 2: The n Syncs of the World and stuff like that.

52
00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,320
Speaker 2: But no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, even they

53
00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:08,960
Speaker 2: would say, it's new addition.

54
00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:10,880
Speaker 1: That's what gave us.

55
00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:15,240
Speaker 2: The boys to Men's, the Jodases, the Shys, you know,

56
00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:20,639
Speaker 2: and then eventually the n syncs, the ninety degrees, the

57
00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,520
Speaker 2: o Town's shout out Trevor. I went to high school

58
00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,400
Speaker 2: with Trevor from Otown. This clearly is not music for us.

59
00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:33,799
Speaker 2: Oh it's music influenced by us, but it's not for us.

60
00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,960
Speaker 2: I'm realizing now to be a child in the nineties

61
00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:45,280
Speaker 2: and be black, how much I took for granted, how

62
00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,440
Speaker 2: much work was done for us to be on screen

63
00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,720
Speaker 2: and in pop culture. This is NBA inside Stuff era.

64
00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:59,360
Speaker 2: This is this ain't different Strokes times anymore. No, this

65
00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,560
Speaker 2: is the fresh Prince of bel Air. This is Amen

66
00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:09,080
Speaker 2: two two seven. This is Sister, Sister. This is the

67
00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,480
Speaker 2: era of John Singleton with boys in the hood, minister society,

68
00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,359
Speaker 2: loving basketball above the rim, juice. Hell, there was a

69
00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:22,600
Speaker 2: TV show called New York Undercover. This was black culture

70
00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,200
Speaker 2: really put in forefront, our style, our slang in all

71
00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,960
Speaker 2: areas of entertainment and pop culture. Now, granted, there is

72
00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,599
Speaker 2: a thing called black Hollywood where there are stars for

73
00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:37,520
Speaker 2: which some of y'all don't even know who they are.

74
00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,200
Speaker 2: Now it's a little different, but people like Synnihilate Thing

75
00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,080
Speaker 2: and Nia Long, Lawrence Tate. You know, these are people

76
00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,520
Speaker 2: who were for us, were the people we was hanging

77
00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,839
Speaker 2: on our posters. A few people poked through, like Boris

78
00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,120
Speaker 2: Koudro and Tyrese. This is a lot of hip hop,

79
00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,440
Speaker 2: a lot of R and B, but well, black people

80
00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:03,880
Speaker 2: make it soul music, and soul is very specific. It's

81
00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,799
Speaker 2: got all those influences, but it had not been updated.

82
00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,960
Speaker 2: Soul music sounded like our parents' music. Then you may

83
00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,839
Speaker 2: have heard of somebody name, Oh, I don't know, Rikabadou,

84
00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:22,520
Speaker 2: Jill Scott, Shall, I keep going, Maxwell, Rafael Sadek music,

85
00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:23,360
Speaker 2: soul child.

86
00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,720
Speaker 1: You know, I just want to know.

87
00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,760
Speaker 2: Your name and maybe some time Angie Stone, India I

88
00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:36,600
Speaker 2: ree Hal, Lauren Hill, even Anthony Hamilton, in some ways,

89
00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:46,599
Speaker 2: none of which had the watershed effect, the grip on

90
00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,040
Speaker 2: our souls, in our ears, and stole all of our

91
00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:57,080
Speaker 2: young ladies who not only was the center of what

92
00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:02,880
Speaker 2: black masculinity could look like in its physicality and that

93
00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:08,200
Speaker 2: in its sentimentality, but also in a display of unapologetically

94
00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:15,479
Speaker 2: black mixing of hip hop, soul, street and lover boy.

95
00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,880
Speaker 2: Oh there was only one DiAngelo and we lost him

96
00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:20,719
Speaker 2: this week.

97
00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:21,760
Speaker 1: Tap in with me.

98
00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,679
Speaker 2: I never forget the first time I heard brown Sugar.

99
00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,839
Speaker 2: I believe it was on the Love Jones soundtrack one summer.

100
00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,200
Speaker 1: Yo Brown Sugar shook. I'm singing it perfectly, ain't a.

101
00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:51,880
Speaker 2: It had this swing drum to it that no one's

102
00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,000
Speaker 2: I don't we didn't hear R and B that sounded

103
00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:56,400
Speaker 2: like that.

104
00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:57,080
Speaker 1: You know why?

105
00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,680
Speaker 2: Because Jay Dillar produced it. Yes, the Dila Dyla that

106
00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:04,239
Speaker 2: changed all of our lives.

107
00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:05,039
Speaker 1: J Dilla.

108
00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,800
Speaker 2: He put together an album called Voodoo and one of

109
00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,200
Speaker 2: those albums and one of the songs on that album

110
00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:17,760
Speaker 2: had a video that was just de'angelo wast up, shirtless,

111
00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:23,040
Speaker 2: slow moving across his muscular body. Now if there, if

112
00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:28,680
Speaker 2: I would have found out that I was possibly queer,

113
00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:30,000
Speaker 2: it would have been that video.

114
00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:31,640
Speaker 1: I tell you what.

115
00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:41,440
Speaker 2: Just the demelonin the corn rows, just the slow singing.

116
00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,200
Speaker 1: How does it feel?

117
00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,880
Speaker 2: It was like for the J's to be able to

118
00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,800
Speaker 2: be soft a little bit, but not necessarily a gangster,

119
00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,680
Speaker 2: to be just from the streets. But but you're not

120
00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,240
Speaker 2: in Wa.

121
00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,920
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. You can sing.

122
00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:08,240
Speaker 2: You ain't gotta be grimy Wu Tang underground. DiAngelo gave

123
00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,840
Speaker 2: us a green light. Oh man, I used to have

124
00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,000
Speaker 2: to not allow him to be shown. We couldn't go

125
00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,559
Speaker 2: to No, there's a few concerts you can't take your ladies.

126
00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,800
Speaker 2: You can't take it to know Maxwell concert. You can't

127
00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:21,720
Speaker 2: take it to know You can't take it a Knowe

128
00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:28,880
Speaker 2: D'Angelo concert Boyd'angelo gave us permission in my era to

129
00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,440
Speaker 2: be black as hell, for us to like, you like,

130
00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,360
Speaker 2: listen a different world from you know, the spinoff from

131
00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,160
Speaker 2: the Cosby show that took place at an HBCU. It

132
00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,119
Speaker 2: took place at a black college. It gave us permission

133
00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,880
Speaker 2: to be that we saw it.

134
00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:46,280
Speaker 1: It was.

135
00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,280
Speaker 2: He was our James Brown, and he also was very

136
00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,280
Speaker 2: hard to understand too. He recently passed away from pancreatic cancer.

137
00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:59,320
Speaker 2: And there's something to be said about this black male

138
00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,199
Speaker 2: thing just suffering in silence. I'm speaking specifically at a

139
00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,480
Speaker 2: black I'm not saying everybody else don't do this. I'm

140
00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,600
Speaker 2: just saying that that's just something that's very normal in

141
00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:11,000
Speaker 2: our community. That's how we lost Chadwick Chadwick Bosen. Did

142
00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,000
Speaker 2: you know he had cancer? I didn't either, Yeah, as

143
00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,760
Speaker 2: in the Black Panther, same thing. So di'angelo passed away

144
00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,560
Speaker 2: at fifty one. Another seminal work we got from him

145
00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:28,280
Speaker 2: was a song on Lauren Hill's Miseducation album called Nothing

146
00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:34,440
Speaker 2: Even Matters. It was for our generation what it meant

147
00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,560
Speaker 2: to be grown and sexy, to love that melanated woman,

148
00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,680
Speaker 2: to put her first, to take care of that family,

149
00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,600
Speaker 2: and just to look fly doing it. Afros, Dreadlocks, corn

150
00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:50,840
Speaker 2: Rows like he made it, and this era of music,

151
00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:58,440
Speaker 2: I would say, is why it's so accepted in just

152
00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,600
Speaker 2: modern pop culture now. I think in some ways we're

153
00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,720
Speaker 2: doing that with Dreadlocks, with like the yi Ns.

154
00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,319
Speaker 1: Now you know what I'm saying. But the point I'm

155
00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:07,160
Speaker 1: trying to make is.

156
00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,720
Speaker 2: He was in a lot of ways of Black Messiah,

157
00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:16,640
Speaker 2: and the gap between his album Voodoo and his album

158
00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:22,280
Speaker 2: also entitled Black Messiah was almost twenty years When he

159
00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,560
Speaker 2: came back, he was kind of like he wasn't the

160
00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:29,120
Speaker 2: how does it feel perfect specimen of manhood. He had

161
00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,080
Speaker 2: put on a little weight, you know, for whatever reason,

162
00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,079
Speaker 2: but he was still one of the most beloved voices

163
00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:44,480
Speaker 2: in just music in blackness. He's the king of neo soul.

164
00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:50,839
Speaker 1: Man. He was truly our Black Messiah and he'll be

165
00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:51,640
Speaker 1: greatly missed.

166
00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,679
Speaker 2: So please go do your homework, man, go listen to

167
00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:02,880
Speaker 2: Voodoo Black Messiah and yeah, man, let's make sure that

168
00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,679
Speaker 2: music never dies because AI could never tapping in with

169
00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:07,880
Speaker 2: me