IDK is a hot MC with a new album out called F65. His plan to become a rapper started when he was in prison and now he’s living his dream. Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7 Toure Show Episode 379 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producer & Talent Booker: Jennifer BrownExecutive Producer: Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell ColemanPhotographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta CovingtonBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainme...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 379
Tiffany Aliche aka the Budgetnista went from sleeping on her parents’ couch to being a multi-millionaire all based on teaching financial literacy. In this throwback episode from 2021, Tiffany is the author of Get Good With Money and she’s here to help us get good with money! She’s brilliant with money and she knows how to make her tips on money really easy and accessible. You don’t want to work for every dollar you ever make! You have to invest so your money grows! You don’t want to spend more t...
May 21, 2023•42 min
Robert Townsend is one of the great film directors of his era. I’ll never forget sitting in the theater and watching his first film Hollywood Shuffle. He also made the Five Heartbeats and directed Eddie Murphy’s legendary comedy special Raw. Townsend is a critical figure in modern Black Hollywood history. He’s hysterical, brilliant, driven and a legend. It’s an honor to talk about film with the awesome Robert Townsend. Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://form...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 378
Jordan E. Cooper is an amazing young playwright who created the Tony nominated Broadway play Ain’t No Mo which is about a moment where every Black American is being given a one way plane ticket to Africa. In this throwback interview Cooper, who is also the play’s star, goes into what Ain’t No Mo means and what ideas inspired it. Original Air Date: Dec 21, 2022 Toure Show Ep 357: I Made Ain't No Mo Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF...
May 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Diamond D is a hiphop legend. Rapper, producer, and lover of the culture. I love talking the people who help create the culture every day. Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7 Toure Show Episode 377 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producers: Jennifer Brown and Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell ColemanPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Support the show: ...
May 10, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 377
Don Lemon was let go by CNN recently after an amazing 17 year run there, so let’s throwback to our interview from 2021 where we talk broadcasting, Trump, America and how his fiancé proposed to him. Original Air Date: April 21, 2021 Toure Show Ep 237: I Am CNN Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choic...
May 07, 2023•45 min
Major Jackson is one of America’s great poets. Amazing conversation about what it means to write poetry for a living. Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7 Toure Show Episode 376 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producer & Talent Booker: Jennifer BrownExecutive Producer: Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell ColemanPhotographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta CovingtonBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Support the show:...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 376
Wyclef Jean. Genius. Producer. Rapper. A throwback to our 2020 interview. Original Air Date: Aug 12, 2020 Toure Show Ep 165: Wyclef - I Am Music Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Symone Sanders is an MSNBC star who has been an advisor to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. She loves politics and understands what the game is all about. Great convo about broadcasting and working closely with major political icons. Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7 Toure Show Episode 375 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producer & Talent Booker: Jennifer BrownExecutive Producer: Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer:...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 375
In this 2022 interview, Brent Faiyaz talks about his latest album Wasteland. Toure Show Episode 334: Brent Faiyaz Original Air Date: July 13, 2022 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Sherri Shepherd is a comedian, a host of the daily talk show Sherri, an actress, and an all around lovely person. Whenever I see her I start to smile. This interview is awesome—we talk about the craft of comedy, her fear before going onstage, hosting a talk show, the challenge of being a man, what you need to do to successfully date her, and much more. She’s amazing. Toure Show Episode 374 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producers: Jennifer Brown and Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell Cole...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 374
Joey Bada$$ is one of the leaders of the modern generation of MCs. In this throwback episode from 2022, we discuss his latest album 2000. It is deep and so is our conversation. I didn’t expect to talk about emotional intelligence and his passion for self-improvement. I didn’t expect him to bring his 4 yo daughter and let her sit in. I didn’t expect him to be as sensitive as he is here. Great convo about hiphop and about feelings. Toure Show Episode 338: Joey Bada$$-I Am HipHop Original Air Date:...
Apr 16, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Kel Mitchell is famous for making Good Burger and starring on Kenan and Kel but his life in comedy also includes a life in the church. He’s a youth pastor. The church helped him survive a very difficult time in his life where he thought about ending it all. This is a deep convo about his spirituality and his comedy. Toure Show Episode 373 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producers: Jennifer Brown and Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell ColemanPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, an...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 373
Sanaa Lathan is a legendary actress who’s becoming a director. She shot the film adaptation of Angie Thomas’s novel On The Come Up. We talk about acting and directing and reality shows and how quarantine changed her life and lots more. Toure Show Episode 348: Sanaa Lathan Original Air Date: Oct 19, 2022 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Walter Mosley is the author of Every Man’s A King and more than 40 other novels because he writes every single day no matter what. He’s one of the most interesting writers working today so this is a must listen for anyone who cares about writing or writers. Toure Show Episode 372 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producers: Jennifer Brown and Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell ColemanPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment ...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 372
Jermaine Dupri is a legend and we had a legendary conversation. We talk about dating Janet, producing Mariah, working with Jay-Z, visiting Magic City, and much more. Toure Show Ep 364: Jermaine Dupri Original Air Date: February 8, 2023 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 02, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Carla Hall is a legendary chef who talks about cooking with love. But what does that really mean? And what does it mean to be a great chef? And what’s the real reason why her restaurant in Brooklyn closed? Carla answers all of that plus what being Black means to her and how to make perfect fried chicken. Toure Show Episode 371 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producers: Jennifer Brown and Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell ColemanPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpB...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 371
Zadie Smith is one of the best writers and coolest people around. It’s a good time to revisit our 2018 talk about writing and Jay-Z and Chappelle. Touré Show Ep 13: Zadie Smith–How to Be Free Original Air Date: February 7, 2018 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 42 min
Dominique Fishback is the star of Donald Glover’s awesome new Amazon show Swarm. It’s a wild show and Fishback is extraordinary as a super fan slash serial killer. She’s an intense and philosophical actor who talks all about the character she plays in Swarm, as well as working with Glover and how she broke into acting. Amazing convo. Toure Show Episode 370 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producers: Jennifer Brown and Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell ColemanPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Sh...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 370
Elaine Welteroth is fierce and brilliant and bold. In this throwback episode from 2019, she’s one of the hosts of The Talk on CBS and she was on Project Runway. She was the editor in chief at Teen Vogue and she’s the author of an amazing memoir called, "More Than Enough.” The book is inspiring and funny and empowering and will teach you a lot about how to get ahead and will help you see how to feel like no matter what you are enough. Toure Show Ep 75: I Am More Than Enough Original Air Date: Jun...
Mar 19, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Seal. Crazy. Kiss From A Rose. Superstar. Talking about his music, his development as a singer, his youth, the history of the scars on his face, and more. A very deep look into one of the great singers of our time. Toure Show Episode 369 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producers: Jennifer Brown and Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell ColemanPhotographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick KarpBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.c...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 369
Isabel Wilkerson is one of the great writers of her generation. The author of The Warmth Of Other Suns and now Caste is creating narrative non-fiction that is explaining Black America with a depth and precision rarely seen. I love her research, I love her way of explaining things, and I love her writing style so we’re getting into all of that. Toure Show Ep 171: I'm A Writer Original Air Date: Sept. 2, 2020 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for p...
Mar 12, 2023•56 min
Conscious Lee is an educator who uses TikTok and the classroom to teach about Blackness. He says education is elevation and his work is inspiring. We talk about Black history as well as his mom’s impending jail sentence. Toure Show Episode 366 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producer & Talent Booker: Jennifer BrownExecutive Producer: Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell ColemanPhotographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta CovingtonBooker: Claudia JeanThe House: DCP Entertainment Support the sho...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 366
Amy Sherald painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama that’s hanging in the National Portrait Gallery but there’s an awesome story around how she got that commission and the artistic decisions she made in making that painting. We get into all of that but there’s also so much more to her life than that painting. Amy had already become a major portraitist before that commission, even though, just a few years before she met the Obamas, Amy was broke and wondering where her artistic career was...
Mar 05, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Bomani Jones is the host of Game Theory on HBO and a longtime writer/broadcaster who can talk about absolutely anything. The guy has three advanced degrees in economics. I wanted to know how he’s created this amazing career for himself. We get deep talking sports but things get really heated when we get into music… Toure Show Episode 367 Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producer & Talent Booker: Jennifer BrownExecutive Producer: Ryan WoodhallAssociate Producer: Adell ColemanPhotographers: C...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 39 min
Terry McMillan is one the most famous and successful writers of her time because she knows how to really connect with her audience. And the reason why she understands how to do that is because she knows how to make great characters and she knows how to listen to them. She doesn’t tell her characters what to do, she lets them tell her what she wants them to do and who they are and by really listening, she creates really honest characters who people love. This is a master class in how to write com...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 16 min
Dream Hampton is an activist and a filmmaker who made the incredible doc “Surviving R. Kelly” and co-wrote Jay-Z’s Decoded. She’s got an inspiring warrior spirit and knows how to use media to help the people. Toure Show Episode 366 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Jennifer Brown and Ryan Woodhall Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.co...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 366
Now that two men have been exonerated in the murder of Malcolm X, who killed him? Well there’s a Netflix doc that has an answer: “Who Killed Malcolm X” tells us the name of the man who pulled the trigger of the sawed-off shotgun that killed Malcolm, and which Newark mosque he was from. I talk with the directors Rachel Dretzin and Phil Bertelsen about who killed Malcolm and how the American government conspired to kill Malcolm—his top bodyguard at the end was an NYPD infiltrator and informant. Or...
Feb 19, 2023•1 hr
Vinnie from Naughty By Nature is an old friend so he’s come by to break it all down. He talks about how and the guys started out dealing on the block, and how they made OPP and how that smash changed their lives, and the long slow breakdown of the group’s bonds which led to very real problems. He talks about the time he punched Treach in the face and why their relationship is strained now. Amazingly honest conversation about the rise and the struggles of a legendary rap group. Toure Show Episode...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 365
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the greatest basketball players ever, but he thinks of himself as a writer who played basketball. I loved talking to him in this throwback interview. Original Air Date: May 2, 2018 Touré Show Ep 27: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In Life Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 12, 2023•57 min
