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Funking Around with Bootsy Collins

Funking Around with Bootsy Collins
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Music Executive Danyel Smith Gives Black Women In Pop Their Flowers

Maiysha sis down with music executive Danyel Smith about her music memoir Shine Bright which is a personal memoir of Danyel Smith as well as a history lesson about Black women in Pop. The two discuss Danyel's turbulent and at times abusive upbringing, the Black women in music such as Whitney Houston, Lizzo, Beyonce, Ella Fitzgerald and more who deserve flowers and how women in the music industry still have to navigate a male dominated industry. The two talk about her numerous positions in the entertainment industry from working at Vibe to Billboard to ESPN ....

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Tracy Chapman x Affirmative Action

Tracy Chapman became one of the biggest musicians in the world thanks to two critical 80s concepts affirmative action and the diasporic mindset. Because of the diasporic mindset, many Americans thought of Africa as part of their world, as if Africa’s problems are our own, and we are not truly free until South Africans suffering under Apartheid are free. And affirmative action did nothing less than change Chapman’s life. We’ll explore how those ideas helped Chapman and how they relate to "Fast Car." We’ll also look at what Chapman’s life might have been like if she’d never been helped by affirmative action. ....

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Stevie Wonder x MLK

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NWA x Selling Crack

N.W.A’s “Dopeman” Is one of the illest songs ever made because it takes you deep into the drug dealer’s perspective on selling drugs. The crack dealer was evil but we should still seek to understand what drove him and when we look into his soul we find that like the fiends he served, he too was an addict, but he was addicted to power and money. Crack dealers and their culture had a deep influence on hiphop culture and the Black community. In this ep we go into "Dopeman” with The D.O.C. from NWA and talk to several former drug dealers about how dealers changed the world around them. ....

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