VP Kamala Harris’s ascension to Presidential nominee is an extraordinary historical moment. I talk with Danielle Moodie and Krystal Ball about what this all means and where we’re going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lil' Yachty is one of my favorite modern rappers. In this convo from 2020 we talk about his style and his musical influences, and get a deep look at the personality of one of the most unique rappers in the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Warren Sapp is one of the greatest football players of his era. Now he’s at Colorado working alongside Deon Sanders. We talk about Colorado football, Miami football, Tampa Bay, changing the culture, winning the Super Bowl and what mental toughness means to Sapp. Awesome convo with an amazing guy. Toure Show Episode 453 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHale Photographers: Podst...
Malcolm Gladwell is a genius. This interview is from 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Talib Kweli is a legendary MC and an old friend so we keep it real in this convo about how he works with Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def and why he loves to argue with people online. Amazing convo. After we wrapped he said thanks for letting get into the online stuff. No one ever asks about that. We kept it real. Toure Show Episode 452 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHale Photographer...
Amari Marshall aka Amari Monster was a Dance Captain on Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour. She danced beside the Queen night after night. She’s the person Beyonce chose to help Blue Ivy be ready for her part of the show. Amazing conversation about dance, working with Beyonce, working with Blue Ivy, working with Rihanna on the Super Bowl halftime show and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Consequence is an MC who’s worked closely with Kanye. Some say he’s Kanye’s ghostwriter. Is he? We talk about it. Plus what it’s like to work with Kanye including how Kanye totally screwed up Cons’s solo career. Also what it’s like to grow up with Q-Tip. This is a real inside-an-MC’s-life kindof conversation. One of my favorites of the year. Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHa...
Melyssa Ford is an icon. She’s been a star for over 20 years and we’ve been friends for that long. She’s smart, she’s fun, she’s got some things she’s vulnerable about. We talk about never getting married, surviving a brain injury, being perimenopausal, being a sex symbol and why The Joe Budden show works so damn well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eric Benet has been a friend for a long time but we’ve never really sat down and discussed his whole story. How did he get from Milwaukee to Hollywood? He’s a great storyteller so we run through how he discovered that he’s good looking, how he learned how to sing, how he pulled Halle Berry, and more. He’s a lot of fun to hang with. Toure Show Episode 450 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer...
Eboni K. Williams is a lawyer, a broadcaster, a Real Housewife, a friend, and an amazing person. In this fascinating convo we talk about why she should not date a bus driver, what she’s looking for in a relationship, her future as a mother, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tommy Davidson is a legendary comic with a trans son. I did not intend to talk a lot about that—the man is on tour with Katt Williams. I’d planned to talk about comedy and we did that but somehow we kept coming back to talking about his trans son. It’s a very honest conversation. Toure Show Episode 449 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHale Photographers: Podstream Studios The ...
Diddy is in jail awaiting trial for a slew of horrific charges. If you want to look back at who he was before everything fell apart, listen to this onstage interview from 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Love McPherson is a relationship expert and marriage counselor who loves to help people create healthy relationships. In this convo we talk about surviving infidelity, fighting fairly, and how to make your relationship better. Toure Show Episode 448 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHale Photographers: Podstream Studios The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choi...
Hakim Green was part of Channel Live a hot 90s rap duo known for the massive hit “Mad-Izm.” The success of that record changed Green’s life in many ways—because he known for talking about weed, people started asking him for it. So he started selling it. But the struggle to make another massive hit led to depression, failure, and homelessness. It’s an incredible life story. Toure Show Episode 447 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: A...
Taylor Townsend is one of my favorite current professional tennis players because she’s unrelentingly aggressive. She’s a serve and volleyer which is something no one does anymore! And she’s a survivor. Her journey has put her through a lot—she was the best junior player in the world when the USTA refused to back her because, well, she weighs more than the average player. But she was beating everyone! She’s been away recently on maternity leave but she’ll be back on the WTA circuit soon. We talk...
Justin Simien is an amazing director (Dear White People) who’s made a hot new doc called Hollywood Black which explores the history of Black folks in cinema. Really deep look at everything from Birth of A Nation to the success of Jordan Peele. The doc is on MGM+. We go deep into the history of Black cinema and talk/argue about Blaxploitation, Hattie McDaniel, Denzel, Tarantino, what the definition of a Black film is, and more. Toure Show Episode 446 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: ...
Andy Roddick is a tennis legend—he was #1 in the world. We talk about how to hit a great serve, what it’s like to play against some of history’s best, if he choked against Federer at Wimbledon, and what is mental toughness? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
James Blake was, at his height, the #4 best tennis player in the world. He beat Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer. Now he’s a commentator who still watches the game. We talk about drugs in the sport, his greatest matches, his forehand technique, and how hard it is for him to now find someone who’s interesting for him to hit with which is why he’s now getting into… pickleball. Recorded in Brooklyn in front of an audience of tennis players. Toure Show Episode 445 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Prod...
Eboni K. Williams is a lawyer, a broadcaster, a Real Housewife, a friend, and an amazing person. In this fascinating convo we talk about why she should not date a bus driver, what she’s looking for in a relationship, her future as a mother, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tricia Lee is the breakout star of Netflix’s fascinating real estate reality show Owning Manhattan. Tricia is the Queen of Brooklyn real estate and she’s a powerful woman. She can sell anything and she charges through the world full of confidence. She said on the show she wanted to be seen as a free Black woman. She is. We talk about real estate, how to sell anything, and how to impose your will on your world. She’s so inspiring. Toure Show Episode 444 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producer...
VP Kamala Harris’s ascension to Presidential nominee is an extraordinary historical moment. I talk with Danielle Moodie and Krystal Ball about what this all means and where we’re going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grafh is a hot lyrical MC from Queens who’s got the streets buzzing. Amazing convo about music, hiphop, his days in the streets and what it takes to be a great MC. Toure Show Episode 443 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHale Photographers: Podstream Studios The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ghostface Killah is one of the greatest MCs of all time and an old friend. Amazing convo about music, the Wu, and where he’s at in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FD Signifier is one of legends of the YouTube video essay world. He recently dropped a 3.5 hour video essay about Kendrick and Drake and the history of hiphop and it’s amazing. In this convo we talk deeply about the battle and Drake and Kendrick and what it takes to be great at making Youtube video essays. Toure Show Episode 442 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHale Photograph...
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Morris Day is a lifelong close friend of Prince. They grew up together and remained close to Prince’s end. Day was also the leader of The Time, one of the funkiest bands of the 80s. Here, we talk all about Prince from their meeting to their last convo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Toure Show Ep 225 Original Air Date: March 10, 2021 Few Congresspeople had a more harrowing time on Jan 6 than Congresswoman Maxine Waters. In this throwback, we talked about what happened to her and what’s going on with this country. She does not hold back when talking about Republicans and their racism. Amazing conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
VP Kamala Harris’s ascension to Presidential nominee is an extraordinary historical moment. I talk with Danielle Moodie and Krystal Ball about what this all means and where we’re going. Toure Show Episode 440 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHale Photographers: Podstream Studios The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joy Reid’s ascension to MSNBC's vaunted 7pm weekday time slot makes her one of the few Black women to ever host a prime time news show so we had to dig into the archive and replay our interview from 2018. She digs into how she handles Trump surrogates on TV, how she dealt with getting fired while on the air, and how she survived the death of her mother just before she was set to go to Harvard. She’s an extraordinary person who’s both brilliant and hard working and I’m proud to call her a friend....
Bryant Terry is a chef as well as an artist and a food justice activist. If you love great vegan food, he is the man. Toure Show Episode 439 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHale Photographers: Podstream Studios The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
