unique views
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Unique Views, Episode 36: A Gentler, Kinder Mike Tyson
The saying goes that it’s better not to meet your heroes, and Danielle Young, aka Patti LaDanielle, has met me, and we see how that has worked out. Clearly, I was her podcast hero because my voice is a cross between a soft beach breeze and Idris Elba’s face. I hate to admit it, but…
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Unique Views, Episode 35: You Might Be Woke, but You Ain’t Belafonte Woke
Being awake doesn’t mean you are woke. I’ve tried to explain this to my co-host and The Root’s creative producer, Danielle Young, aka Ms. Patti LaDanielle, but she doesn’t get it. Danielle is asleep. Fine, maybe she is awake, but she is definitely not woke. Fine. Fine. She’s woke, but I say this reluctantly because…
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Unique Views, Episode 34: Can You Hear Us Now?
This episode is filled with people we hate, HBCU presidents, Ben Carson, embarrassing fat moments that Ms. Patti Patti and I bond over, and Donald Trump’s usual foolishness. But first, an apology. I want to apologize to all the listeners who have had to endure over 30 episodes of The Root’s podcast and have not…
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Unique Views, Episode 33: Black Don’t Crack, Featuring Vanessa Bell Calloway
Whenever Patti LaDanielle (aka The Root’s social-content producer, and our podcast co-host, Danielle Young) and I talk hip-hop—like, real hip-hop—I have a tendency to throw on my hip-hop voice, which includes a faux New York accent and a whole lot of “yos” and “sons” and “gods.” It happened this past episode because Ms. Patti Patti…
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Unique Views, Episode 32: Lil Rel and Lil Racism
Every week I learn something new about my co-host, Patti LaDanielle, aka Danielle Young, and this week I learned that she loves Lil Zane more than Lil Bow Wow. According to Ms. Patti Patti, Lil Bow Wow’s music career regressed as he got older, and Lil Zane never hurt anyone. Let me back up a…
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Unique Views, Episode 31: 10 Minutes With Loretta Devine on a Shaky Cellphone
When we tell y’all that we are trying, I don’t think y’all understand what that really means. This podcast is held together with shoestring and bubblegum. It’s not a joke when we call ourselves the Sanford and Son of podcasts, and as Ms. Patti LaDanielle, aka The Root’s social-content producer, Danielle Young, told me, “Yeah,…
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Unique Views, Episode 30: Home Alone
When I was growing up and my mom didn’t feel like cooking, she would tell us to go in there and fix something, which was really code for: “I don’t want to cook and/or we don’t have any food.” Well, Danielle Young, aka Patti LaDanielle, and I lovingly say to our loyal listeners, “Go in…
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Unique Views, Episode 29: Tony Rock Throws Stones at Everyone
There are certain guests who we don’t want to overshadow with our foolishness. Tony Rock is one of those guests. He’s brutally honest and his commentary is dead on. For one, well before President Trump ushered out “his” blacks and shouted out Fredrick Douglass like he was still alive, Rock urged Patti LaDanielle aka Danielle…
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Unique Views, Episode 28: Ginuwine’s Catalog Can Compete With Jodeci’s; Yep, We Said It
What it do, y’all? We back at it like a drug habit. It’s your favorite host’s favorite hosts: Stephen A. Crockett Jr. (the 3rd), aka “Lattisaw,” and the most liturgical, dancingest host whose white gloves stay spotless, Ms. Patti LaDanielle, aka Danielle Young. And I have to jump right in: Danielle totally froze! Ohmigod, it…
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Unique Views, Episode 27: #TeamLawrence or #TeamChrisetteNeedsACheck?
It’s here. It’s finally here. President Trump. We don’t have to respect it, but that doesn’t make it any less true. A reality star who hates everyone except white men is president of the country, and the world is in retrograde. We know we said that episode 26 of the podcast would be the last…