1 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Yay, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has a 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: new album out. It was released last Friday, and it's 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: called Bully. The album has gotten mixed reviews so far, 4 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: and now Yay is receiving backlash for suggesting that his 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: interracial marriage to Bianca Censori was made possible by the 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: efforts of doctor. 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 2: Martin Luther King Junior. 8 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: Okay Yay has a song called King on the album, 9 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: and the lyrics are Listen to the lyrics, I bought 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: a white queen to the altar. 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 2: Couldn't happen without Martin Luther What. 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: The lyric is in reference to the nineteen sixty seven 13 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: Loving versus Virginia Supreme Court decision that lifted the ban 14 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: on interracial marriage during the time that doctor Martin Luther 15 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: King Junior was actively fighting against segregation. So Yay tried 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: to tie all that together. 17 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 3: That's the first time though, as you're talking about. 18 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 2: Come on, yeah, Yay, though. 19 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:12,919 Speaker 4: You are. 20 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 2: And you know, you know. 21 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:28,639 Speaker 1: You are Greg Ma and Luther King and yes, yes, yes, all. 22 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 3: Black boys, white girls, well join hands. 23 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, okay, that's really a stretch. 24 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: It's a stretch, isn't it. It's it's okay. 25 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: And then you know, we as black women, we call 26 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: each other queens. 27 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 28 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: We call each other queen, right right, right, yeah, that's 29 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: what we say to each other, Hey, queen, or what's up? 30 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 2: Queen grand Rise and Queen nothing we can't believe? 31 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, Well, why go ahead, Kanye. 32 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 4: We don't care. 33 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 2: Uh uh, we really don't. We really don't. We really 34 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 2: really don't and moving on. 35 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: In a recent interview with Forbes magazine, Usher publicly supported 36 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: his former mentor, Sean Ditty COLMBS. Usher stated that he 37 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: still holds respect for Ditty and views Ditty's musical and 38 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: business contributions as a legacy. He referred to Ditty as 39 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: a hard teacher who was essential in his early career 40 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: back in the nineteen nineties. While Usher didn't defend the 41 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: sexual offense charges that led to Ditty's fifty month prison conviction, 42 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: he stated quote, I can't with any sense of humanity 43 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: not recognize the valuable contributions that this man made for us. 44 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: Usher's interview sparked backlash from his fans, with many finding 45 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: his supportive Ditty tone death giving the severity of the 46 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: charges and the numerous allegations against Diddy. So can you 47 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: understand why Usher still has a lot of respect for Diddy, 48 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,119 Speaker 1: saying he was his mentor and all of that. 49 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: Well, I can understand it because if you compartmentalize it, 50 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 3: which is obviously what he's done, talked about this one 51 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 3: aspect of their relationship, he can feel that way. 52 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 4: I'll give you an example. 53 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 3: I still hold Bill Cosby at a certain level of 54 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 3: appreciation for what he's done for me in my career. 55 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 3: He was a huge part of getting my sons into 56 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 3: more House. He made some calls for me, and I 57 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 3: do appreciate that. I appreciate all the money that he 58 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 3: gave to black institutions. He was the largest giver to 59 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 3: FISK ever in the history of FISK. He did a 60 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 3: lot for HBCUs and I appreciate all of that. So 61 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 3: I can and and you know, I won't sit up 62 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 3: in here and beat the man up for what he did, 63 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 3: because he paid his dues, he went to. 64 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 4: Prison, he did his time. Do I approve of what 65 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 4: he did? Of course not. 66 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 3: And our victim's real absolutely one hundred percent. 67 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 2: You were shot right when you heard like everyone else, And. 68 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 3: Then somebody asked me in an interview. How can you 69 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 3: still be friends with a man like Bill Corby? I 70 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: ain't know none of this was going on. I learned 71 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 3: it when y'all learned it. Yeah, so, yeah, we was 72 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 3: cool and he was always a great guy to me. 73 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 4: But you know, this came out and then he had 74 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 4: to go to prison for it. 75 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 3: You know, man, you got to pay for the things 76 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 3: you do in life, one way or the other. 77 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: Your decisions and reperfessions. 78 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 3: Yes, and people want to erase him from the face 79 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 3: of the earth. You know, all these people took his 80 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 3: names off these buildings that he bought. I ain't seen 81 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 3: nobody get the money back. Yeah, yeah, how they say 82 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 3: that part? 83 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: Yeah all right, yeah, yeah, all right, well thank you 84 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 1: for that. 85 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 3: Finally now, but now let's keep it real now pluffect 86 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 3: hate Bell calls me that part. 87 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 2: But but. 88 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: To Usher, who got in the game very young, understood, Yeah, 89 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: they have that mentor relationship. 90 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that's all he said. He don't condone what 91 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 3: he did and none of that. 92 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: No he's not saying, yeah, I hear all right, all right. Finally, 93 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: after several days, the Artemis two rocket is on the 94 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: launch pad at Kennedy Space Center and ready to launch tonight. 95 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: Four astronauts, one of them a brother, will lift off 96 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,799 Speaker 1: from Florida aboard NASA's most powerful rocket for a nine 97 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: day flight that will take them around the far side 98 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: of the Moon and back the mission. 99 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 4: I'm not doing that. 100 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 2: You're you're not going up in space. 101 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 4: You know, I don't care if it is one brother 102 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 4: on that. 103 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 3: We've already had a black man in space that I 104 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 3: did it through. 105 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 2: So we can only have one. 106 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 4: I'm not getting on that thing. 107 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 2: No. 108 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: If all goes as planned, the astronauts will travel farther 109 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: from Earth than any humans in history. Right, Well, another reason, 110 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 1: all right, guys, coming up in twenty minutes after President 111 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: Trump told an audience that he loves to hang around 112 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: with losers, we'll talk about that right after this. 113 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 2: You're listening Hardy Morning Show.