#113 Boom Shakalaka

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.8 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is Jay-Z’s 4:44 a comedy album? Popsugar does “natural hair” for whites only. And why America keeps trying to turn the rapes of women like Sally Hemings into forbidden romance. Wtf? This week’s hot list: Blerd City Con, Blue Ivy puts everything in shaka, Queen goes to Afro-Latino Fest, what is “regular Black”, that wack ancestry.com commercial, the romanticizing of Rape & Slavery: Sally Hemings, Alex Haley’s “Queen”, and “Underground” (we go in), the myth of the “house slave”, our favorite Black femmes, suffering & womanhood, co-opting natural hair, and the Podcast Awards! Nominate us bih! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj NOMINATE US! We need you to nominate us for the 12th annual Podcast Awards! Please go to www.podcastawards.com/ and select Tea with Queen and J. podcast in both the People’s Choice AND Society & Culture categories! Voting ends July 31st! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL [email protected] DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Blerd City Con is happening July 29th & 30th! Tickets and information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blerd-city-con-tickets-35335342962?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing This week’s closing clip is Blue Ivy going ham on Jay-Z’s new album 4:44 Libations to @Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out www.Bondfireradio.com for more dope programming. Libations to our friend Casey who helps keep this show running by giving his money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

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0:00.0	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay.
0:02.1	Is Jay Z's 444 a comedy album?
0:04.8	Pop Sugar does natural hair for whites only,
0:07.5	and why America keeps trying to turn the rapes of women like Sally Hemans into forbidding romance.
0:13.3	It's Tea with Queen of Jay people drink up. T with Tweet of J T T with Tweet of J
0:21.4	Yeah
0:21.4	Who wear shorts shorts?
0:30.8	Conscious is in here in his shorts
0:32.2	Everyone
0:32.8	I used to love that commercial
0:35.1	Because anything to shake your butt
0:37.3	I would do it.
0:38.8	Wow.
0:39.4	Who wears your shorts?
0:41.2	The fact that you found an opportunity to twerk at that corny ass commercial is really a lot.
0:46.8	Okay.
0:47.7	Yeah.
0:48.4	From Africa, we shake our asses.
0:50.6	No, of course.
0:51.2	I just think that it's special that you found an opportunity during that commercial
0:55.3	it was mad which is mad corny and white you know you know i make everything cheers to you i make
1:00.9	everything true that i just watched and rolled my eyes and ignored it i make everything for black women
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